Yashpal, said Kolkata in his recommendations regarding the National
Curriculum Framework 2006 he had suggested the abolition of “traumatic
board exams”, but not to do away with the state boards. “It is
possible to have different boards in the country and I did not
recommend any such initiative,” he said, adding that the state boards
can exist even when the examinations are made optional for the
students.“If students are to continue with the same school in Class XI
& XII what is the point of taking the board exams,” said Yashpal,
insisting that the schools can go ahead with the assessment process
which they have been following till Class IX.
Saffron Party BJP puts up their reasons against the neo policies on
education enunciated by Kapil Sibal who gave vivid description of his
ideas to bring the education under one organsation or regulatory
board.
BJP leader and former HRD minister Murali Manohar Joshi has varied
view on the subject and said that “We seek the immediate intervention
of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop his minister from spoiling
the education sector,” He said that the steps announced as part of the
100-day programme of the Ministry to restructure the sector was of
great concern.“The country has a federal structure.The primary and
secondary requirements in various states are different. We cannot
allow doing away with all the boards and establish a single board,” he
said.Joshi said he had consulted the Education Ministers of various
NDA-ruled states who denied of any information regarding the new
announcements and said they registered their strong opposition to the
radical initiatives.
Criticism came from Uttar Pradesh disagreeing with Kapil Sibal,
marching ahead announcing its own set of reforms to ease the trauma of
the students. Left-ruled states West Bengal and Kerala had spell out
their strong opposition to the education neo pattern and called the
entire gamit a conspiracy to privatise education.
Yash pal committee report that Curriculum development centrally is not
relevant to the local needs of different parts of the country. There
is need for increasing participation of teachers in the process of
curriculum development. Majority of teachers perceive the content of
the textbook as a rigid boundary or a definer of their work in the
classroom. Boredom is the inevitable outcome when tersely written
textbook is taught in a rigid and mechanical manner.
Competition based social ethos has entrenched in our social ethos,
particularly in urban areas is now fully entrenched in the competitive
spirit which is fast becoming our way of life. Rising aspiration of
people in all sections of the society and the growing realization that
education is an important instrument to fulfils their aspirations have
resulted in a craze for admission to English medium schools which
start imparting formal education too early in the child’s life.
Absence of academic ethos for this the adequate time, staff,
accommodation and its maintenance, funds, pedagogical equipment,
playgrounds are essential pre-requisites for effective curriculum
transaction but unfortunately, an overwhelming majority of schools do
not have even the minimum essential facilities. The methods of
teaching used in majority of teachers are devoid of any type of
challenge for the students. Children are hardly provided ail
opportunity to observe and explore natural phenomenon. The concept of
library as a readily available source for learning simply does not
exist in most schools. Similarly, science laboratories are not equally
equipped and are not used for experimentation and discovery. While
forwarding the report of the Committee, Prof. Yash Pal, the chairman
of the Committee advised that wide-ranging debates on the report are
necessary.
2009-06-26 06:48:23 - Kapil Sibal said the government plans to set up
autonomous overarching authority for higher education and research
based on the recommendations of Yashpal committee and the National
Knowledge Commission which provides.A curriculum proves heavy for
children when (a) it is too lengthy to be completed in time by an
average teacher under normal conditions; (b) there is mismatch between
the difficulty level of the concepts of course content with the mental
level of the pupils; (c) the language used in the textbooks is
incomprehensible and the style of presentation is verbose and
rhetorical rather than simple and straight forward; (d) the basic
assumptions underlying curriculum development are not fulfilled.
It has been observed during the last few years that admission age to
nursery classes has been progressively lowered down to the age of 2
1/2 years at some places. It appears that the perception has taken a
deep root that if a child has to succeed in life, he or she must start
education early in life. The major, well understood defect of the
examination system is that it focuses on children’s ability to
reproduce information to the exclusion of the ability to apply
concepts and information on unfamiliar, new problems or simply to
think. Both the teachers and the parents constantly reinforce the fear
of examination and the need to prepare for it by memorizing a whole
lot of information from the textbook and guide books. This sort of
perception about the examination makes things difficult for children.
The syllabi and textbooks if not prepared properly lead to the problem
of curriculum load. It has been observed that most of the textbooks
have high density of concepts and the style of writing is very terse.
The language used in the books in some cases is beyond the
comprehension of many students.
The Committee concluded that the problem of curriculum load was not an
urban phenomenon. In rural areas, where the students have not to carry
heavy bags, the problem of non-comprehension makes things extremely
difficult for majority of children The feeling of academic burden
arising out of non-comprehension of subject matter included in the
syllabus is indeed a serious problem as it is a major hurdle in the
achievement of the target of universalisation of elementary education.
After discussing the indicators or manifestations of the problem of
curriculum load, the committee identified the following as the roots
of the problem.
The committee has questioned the assumption underlying most curriculum
renewal exercises that some sort of knowledge explosion has taken
place, therefore, there is a valid reason to add more and more to the
existing syllabi. By equating information with knowledge, more things
are added to the syllabus making it heavier for children.
To simplify the education system for teens education a single school
board at the all-India level and make 10th board examination optional
and in order to reduce the stress on students, the present system of
giving marks would be replaced by awarding grades and CBSE will be the
first Board to do so.
Unquote but for students willing to go for professional course will
either sit in course of the combined univeristy exams or to get
admission with narrow margins of percentage marks may bring heaps of
disorder for university and professional institute which will work on
diverse route thus again falling in trap of discomfort.
Secondly no mention of semster system in school,Universities and
online examination for admission to various schools,professioal
institution and university needs to be revamped.
Unveiling his 100-day plan yesterday, the Human Resource Development
Minister Kapil Sibal said, in a landmark decision the government is
launching a new scheme on interest subsidy on educational loans taken
for professional courses by economically weaker students. Uniform
examination for all students on the pattern of combined law admission
test is also on the anvil.
Mr. Sibal said the proposed National Commission for Higher Education
and Research will subsume several other regulatory bodies like
University Grants Commission, All India Council of Technical Education
And Medical Council of India. A law will be enacted to prevent,
prohibit and punish institutions resorting to educational mal-
practices. He said that the assessment and accreditation in higher
education through an independent regulatory authority will be made
mandatory. He said that a bill will also be brought to set up
educational tribunals to settle disputes between teachers, staff and
management in higher education.
Mr. Sibal said, the government would review the functioning of these
deemed universities in the wake allegations of irregularities. Mr.
Sibal said that the government will recast the National Literacy
Mission with focus on female literacy. As part of other policy
initiatives, government will formulate a brain gain scheme to attract
talent from abroad to the existing and new institutions. A new policy
on distant education, introduction of academic reforms is some other
priorities. Talking on public-private partnership on school education,
Mr Sibal said there is ample opportunity for private players in the
field, for example management of not well run schools like municipal
schools. The Minister asserted that all steps should be taken to enact
the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill.
2009-06-29 05:23:45 - Noise of divesting stake in public sector
unitsare high on agenda which was severly criticised during NDA
regime. Fiscal deficit to be revamped from the sale of nine PSUs may
make it to the market over the next few months.BHEL, BSNL,Power Grid
Corporation and Rural Electrification Corporation, NHPC, RITES, Coal
India,Oil India are on dilution spree to contribute .Federal Ministers
on 100 days agenda has worthwhile to speak in public which may arouse
controversy on various issues.Law and Justice M Veerappa Moily said
the government would soon make it mandatory for the members of the
higher judiciary, including the Chief Justice of India, Judges of the
Supreme Court and the state High Courts, to disclose their assets and
liabilities.“The draft is almost ready. I am trying to introduce it in
the coming session of the Parliament,” he told The Indian Express. He
said he would try to bring the judiciary around to ensure that
judicial reforms take place without any hitch.“I will talk to them
(judiciary) on the issue of accountability. While, like other sections
of the society, the judiciary is also not beyond reforms, we need to
take into account that Indian judiciary enjoys the highest credibility
in the world,” Moily said.
The broadcasters in fear with imposition of a content code could
fetter their freedom. Soni, who took charge as information and
broadcasting minister, last week listed the building of a consensus on
content code for news broadcasters as one of her top priorities and
promised to take up all issues relating to the media industry in a
transparent manner.
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi assembly V.K. Malhotra criticised
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for reportedly saying that
cleaning of the Yamuna river would take several more years.“For the
last three elections, the Congress government has constantly promised
a clean Yamuna and has spent over Rs.2,000 crore on the Yamuna
Cleaning Campaign. Despite all politically motivated campaigns, today
we find that the holy Yamuna has been reduced to a dirty drain and may
be the most polluted river in the country,” Malhotra said.
Yammuna funds goes infractuous and Dikshit too accepted that her
government’s Yamuna Action Plan has failed and it will not be able to
clean the river before the Commonwealth Games next October. Dikshit
had reportedly said that the government would need several years to
clean the river. Experts put up the Yammuan cleaning plan is not too
difficult as envisaged by the three time CM of Delhi.
A Congress funtionary counts himself as “close” to Sonia, had talked
openly taht the the ministers “transgressed” his mandate by going
public with the roadmap without consulting anybody. Further he had
said that before unrolling changes that “struck at the kernel” of the
education system, Sibal should have met Congress Working Committee
members and representatives of the parliamentary standing committee on
human resource development.A Congress central minister had also taken
a swipe at Sibal. In a different context, some officials were heard
talking about how M. Veerappa Moily had gone “overboard” with his law
and justice ministry’s proposals.
Curriculum Framework 2006 he had suggested the abolition of “traumatic
board exams”, but not to do away with the state boards. “It is
possible to have different boards in the country and I did not
recommend any such initiative,” he said, adding that the state boards
can exist even when the examinations are made optional for the
students.“If students are to continue with the same school in Class XI
& XII what is the point of taking the board exams,” said Yashpal,
insisting that the schools can go ahead with the assessment process
which they have been following till Class IX.
Saffron Party BJP puts up their reasons against the neo policies on
education enunciated by Kapil Sibal who gave vivid description of his
ideas to bring the education under one organsation or regulatory
board.
BJP leader and former HRD minister Murali Manohar Joshi has varied
view on the subject and said that “We seek the immediate intervention
of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop his minister from spoiling
the education sector,” He said that the steps announced as part of the
100-day programme of the Ministry to restructure the sector was of
great concern.“The country has a federal structure.The primary and
secondary requirements in various states are different. We cannot
allow doing away with all the boards and establish a single board,” he
said.Joshi said he had consulted the Education Ministers of various
NDA-ruled states who denied of any information regarding the new
announcements and said they registered their strong opposition to the
radical initiatives.
Criticism came from Uttar Pradesh disagreeing with Kapil Sibal,
marching ahead announcing its own set of reforms to ease the trauma of
the students. Left-ruled states West Bengal and Kerala had spell out
their strong opposition to the education neo pattern and called the
entire gamit a conspiracy to privatise education.
Yash pal committee report that Curriculum development centrally is not
relevant to the local needs of different parts of the country. There
is need for increasing participation of teachers in the process of
curriculum development. Majority of teachers perceive the content of
the textbook as a rigid boundary or a definer of their work in the
classroom. Boredom is the inevitable outcome when tersely written
textbook is taught in a rigid and mechanical manner.
Competition based social ethos has entrenched in our social ethos,
particularly in urban areas is now fully entrenched in the competitive
spirit which is fast becoming our way of life. Rising aspiration of
people in all sections of the society and the growing realization that
education is an important instrument to fulfils their aspirations have
resulted in a craze for admission to English medium schools which
start imparting formal education too early in the child’s life.
Absence of academic ethos for this the adequate time, staff,
accommodation and its maintenance, funds, pedagogical equipment,
playgrounds are essential pre-requisites for effective curriculum
transaction but unfortunately, an overwhelming majority of schools do
not have even the minimum essential facilities. The methods of
teaching used in majority of teachers are devoid of any type of
challenge for the students. Children are hardly provided ail
opportunity to observe and explore natural phenomenon. The concept of
library as a readily available source for learning simply does not
exist in most schools. Similarly, science laboratories are not equally
equipped and are not used for experimentation and discovery. While
forwarding the report of the Committee, Prof. Yash Pal, the chairman
of the Committee advised that wide-ranging debates on the report are
necessary.
2009-06-26 06:48:23 - Kapil Sibal said the government plans to set up
autonomous overarching authority for higher education and research
based on the recommendations of Yashpal committee and the National
Knowledge Commission which provides.A curriculum proves heavy for
children when (a) it is too lengthy to be completed in time by an
average teacher under normal conditions; (b) there is mismatch between
the difficulty level of the concepts of course content with the mental
level of the pupils; (c) the language used in the textbooks is
incomprehensible and the style of presentation is verbose and
rhetorical rather than simple and straight forward; (d) the basic
assumptions underlying curriculum development are not fulfilled.
It has been observed during the last few years that admission age to
nursery classes has been progressively lowered down to the age of 2
1/2 years at some places. It appears that the perception has taken a
deep root that if a child has to succeed in life, he or she must start
education early in life. The major, well understood defect of the
examination system is that it focuses on children’s ability to
reproduce information to the exclusion of the ability to apply
concepts and information on unfamiliar, new problems or simply to
think. Both the teachers and the parents constantly reinforce the fear
of examination and the need to prepare for it by memorizing a whole
lot of information from the textbook and guide books. This sort of
perception about the examination makes things difficult for children.
The syllabi and textbooks if not prepared properly lead to the problem
of curriculum load. It has been observed that most of the textbooks
have high density of concepts and the style of writing is very terse.
The language used in the books in some cases is beyond the
comprehension of many students.
The Committee concluded that the problem of curriculum load was not an
urban phenomenon. In rural areas, where the students have not to carry
heavy bags, the problem of non-comprehension makes things extremely
difficult for majority of children The feeling of academic burden
arising out of non-comprehension of subject matter included in the
syllabus is indeed a serious problem as it is a major hurdle in the
achievement of the target of universalisation of elementary education.
After discussing the indicators or manifestations of the problem of
curriculum load, the committee identified the following as the roots
of the problem.
The committee has questioned the assumption underlying most curriculum
renewal exercises that some sort of knowledge explosion has taken
place, therefore, there is a valid reason to add more and more to the
existing syllabi. By equating information with knowledge, more things
are added to the syllabus making it heavier for children.
To simplify the education system for teens education a single school
board at the all-India level and make 10th board examination optional
and in order to reduce the stress on students, the present system of
giving marks would be replaced by awarding grades and CBSE will be the
first Board to do so.
Unquote but for students willing to go for professional course will
either sit in course of the combined univeristy exams or to get
admission with narrow margins of percentage marks may bring heaps of
disorder for university and professional institute which will work on
diverse route thus again falling in trap of discomfort.
Secondly no mention of semster system in school,Universities and
online examination for admission to various schools,professioal
institution and university needs to be revamped.
Unveiling his 100-day plan yesterday, the Human Resource Development
Minister Kapil Sibal said, in a landmark decision the government is
launching a new scheme on interest subsidy on educational loans taken
for professional courses by economically weaker students. Uniform
examination for all students on the pattern of combined law admission
test is also on the anvil.
Mr. Sibal said the proposed National Commission for Higher Education
and Research will subsume several other regulatory bodies like
University Grants Commission, All India Council of Technical Education
And Medical Council of India. A law will be enacted to prevent,
prohibit and punish institutions resorting to educational mal-
practices. He said that the assessment and accreditation in higher
education through an independent regulatory authority will be made
mandatory. He said that a bill will also be brought to set up
educational tribunals to settle disputes between teachers, staff and
management in higher education.
Mr. Sibal said, the government would review the functioning of these
deemed universities in the wake allegations of irregularities. Mr.
Sibal said that the government will recast the National Literacy
Mission with focus on female literacy. As part of other policy
initiatives, government will formulate a brain gain scheme to attract
talent from abroad to the existing and new institutions. A new policy
on distant education, introduction of academic reforms is some other
priorities. Talking on public-private partnership on school education,
Mr Sibal said there is ample opportunity for private players in the
field, for example management of not well run schools like municipal
schools. The Minister asserted that all steps should be taken to enact
the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill.
2009-06-29 05:23:45 - Noise of divesting stake in public sector
unitsare high on agenda which was severly criticised during NDA
regime. Fiscal deficit to be revamped from the sale of nine PSUs may
make it to the market over the next few months.BHEL, BSNL,Power Grid
Corporation and Rural Electrification Corporation, NHPC, RITES, Coal
India,Oil India are on dilution spree to contribute .Federal Ministers
on 100 days agenda has worthwhile to speak in public which may arouse
controversy on various issues.Law and Justice M Veerappa Moily said
the government would soon make it mandatory for the members of the
higher judiciary, including the Chief Justice of India, Judges of the
Supreme Court and the state High Courts, to disclose their assets and
liabilities.“The draft is almost ready. I am trying to introduce it in
the coming session of the Parliament,” he told The Indian Express. He
said he would try to bring the judiciary around to ensure that
judicial reforms take place without any hitch.“I will talk to them
(judiciary) on the issue of accountability. While, like other sections
of the society, the judiciary is also not beyond reforms, we need to
take into account that Indian judiciary enjoys the highest credibility
in the world,” Moily said.
The broadcasters in fear with imposition of a content code could
fetter their freedom. Soni, who took charge as information and
broadcasting minister, last week listed the building of a consensus on
content code for news broadcasters as one of her top priorities and
promised to take up all issues relating to the media industry in a
transparent manner.
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi assembly V.K. Malhotra criticised
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for reportedly saying that
cleaning of the Yamuna river would take several more years.“For the
last three elections, the Congress government has constantly promised
a clean Yamuna and has spent over Rs.2,000 crore on the Yamuna
Cleaning Campaign. Despite all politically motivated campaigns, today
we find that the holy Yamuna has been reduced to a dirty drain and may
be the most polluted river in the country,” Malhotra said.
Yammuna funds goes infractuous and Dikshit too accepted that her
government’s Yamuna Action Plan has failed and it will not be able to
clean the river before the Commonwealth Games next October. Dikshit
had reportedly said that the government would need several years to
clean the river. Experts put up the Yammuan cleaning plan is not too
difficult as envisaged by the three time CM of Delhi.
A Congress funtionary counts himself as “close” to Sonia, had talked
openly taht the the ministers “transgressed” his mandate by going
public with the roadmap without consulting anybody. Further he had
said that before unrolling changes that “struck at the kernel” of the
education system, Sibal should have met Congress Working Committee
members and representatives of the parliamentary standing committee on
human resource development.A Congress central minister had also taken
a swipe at Sibal. In a different context, some officials were heard
talking about how M. Veerappa Moily had gone “overboard” with his law
and justice ministry’s proposals.
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