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AS I said when I first set out to record my views on the Right to Education Act, what has caught the attention of the media are the few controversial issues which have been stirred up by the ‘powerful’ private school lobby. In the process, sight has been lost of the plethora of very welcome reforms in school education that the Act seeks to bring into effect. There is, of course, the scrapping of the screening process at the time of admission and the effort to bring at least a section of the underprivileged into the folds of an integrated education in elitist schools. But in addition to these, there are at least a dozen reforms which sound very impressive and progressive, at least on paper. The Act clearly stipulates the responsibilities of the central government, the state government and other local authorities and the schools. The central government will “develop a framework of a national curriculum with the help of an academic authority specified by the appropriate government by notification”. This is an extremely welcome step. The development of a national curriculum will eliminate, once and for all, the ding-dong battle that seems to go on endlessly in the minds of the parents as to which examining body their child should patronise. At least, the endless controversy of ICSE vs CBSE will finally be laid to rest. The Act makes a determined effort to break away from the learning by rote that has been the hallmark of the Indian school education system over all these years. The Act stipulates that not only will the curriculum conform to the values enshrined in the Constitution but also ensure the all-round development of the child by building up the child’s knowledge, potential and talent, thus ensuring the fullest development in the child’s physical and mental abilities. The curriculum will ensure that learning is more through action, discussion and exploration than through textbooks. The key question still remains, who will this academic authority be? Experience from past efforts at curriculum reform, notably the switch over to the 10+2 system, suggests that it will, in all likelihood be a pedagogical ‘expert’, university professor, or educational consultant, (or perhaps all three), who has either never seen the inside of a school classroom or who stopped teaching 20 years ago. The central government has also been entrusted with the responsibility of developing and enforcing standards of training for teachers. This is an extremely praiseworthy and necessary step. But again the worry remains as to who will evolve this quality training and how will it be enforced. The Act recognises the fact that the state governments may not have the resources for promoting innovation and research and clearly enjoins on the central government to provide technical support and resources to the state government for endeavours in this direction. For example, computer-aided education, which has now become an established part of school education in all good schools, is practically non-existent in government-run schools, primarily because the cash-strapped state governments do not have the necessary resources to take this step. There cannot possibly be two opinions regarding this clause of the Act and I hope that at least some state governments will make full use of it. The concept of neighbourhood schools is already being practised with some success in some metropolitan cities. The Act lays the responsibility on the state government for establishing the concept and, where necessary, setting up new schools. Once this provision has been universally enforced, we will, hopefully, no longer subject three-year-old toddlers to the traumatising experience of travelling four to five hours every day. How long the state governments will take to implement this clause is an entirely different matter. The state government and local authorities are also responsible for providing training facilities for the teachers and for providing special training to children who are not at par with others, within a specific time limit. Amongst other salutary clauses in the Act are the prohibition of the charging of any kind of donation or capitation charges, of tuitions of any kind and physical punishment or mental harassment to any child, which will now be a cognisable offence. The Act lays down, as a duty, the responsibility of every parent or guardian to admit his or her child or ward, as the case may be, to an elementary education in the neighbourhood school. But probably with an eye on the vote bank, stops short of spelling out what the consequences would be of a failure to perform this duty. It does try to make up for this, in a half-hearted way, by stipulating that the state government and local authority will also be responsible for maintaining records of all the school-going children in the elementary stage of education to ensure that they all attend school and receive a good education. The Act takes the first step towards regulating the standards of schools being set up. It states that no school, once the Act comes into effect, will be set up without obtaining a certificate of recognition from the competent authority. The authorities will issue such a certificate only if the school fulfils certain specified conditions laid down in the schedule. Schools which are already in operation have been given a three-year window to fulfil the specified conditions. These conditions laid down in the schedule aim at reducing student-teacher ratio, stipulating the minimum number of working days and teaching hours, and the minimum infrastructure required by a school. Schools failing to fulfil these conditions either will denied or loose their recognition. Of course, the feel-good syndrome that these clauses generate is immediately negated by the awareness that these conditions will not be binding to government schools for the purpose of recognition. One of the banes of government and government-aided schools is the frequency and regularity with which teachers are allotted duties other than teaching. The Act seeks to curb this by laying down limited, specified duties. This is a correction, but one wonders why teachers should ever be called upon to perform duties outside the school, no matter how limited. The Act seeks to set up managing committees for all schools other than unaided schools. This is a welcome step because it will usher in a greater degree of accountability. Unfortunately, the composition of the committee raises doubts about its effectiveness. The committee will consist of “elected representatives of the local authority, parents or guardians of children admitted in such schools and teachers … at least, three-fourth members of such committees shall be parents or guardians.” Representatives of local authorities, whether elected or otherwise, can be quite nasty when their requests for admissions and appointments are turned down. I shudder to think what they will be like when they become members of the management committee. With a three-fourth majority of the management committee, the parents will ensure that it soon becomes a parents’ organisation, and like most such organisations, it will limit itself to voicing the parents’ grievances, both real and imagined, with little possibility of performing all the wonderful functions that the Act prescribes for the management committee. After studying the Act, one cannot help wondering if the ‘experts’ who formulated the Bill looked only to the West (read the UK and the USA) for a model and failed to looked eastwards to Singapore, Japan and perhaps China. In the final analysis, there are some clauses in the Act that need a rethink while there are many clauses which are eminently praiseworthy. The trouble is that even with these too much detailing has been left in the hands of the state governments and local authorities. If the state governments and local authorities can ensure that the provisions of the Act are implemented with even half the zeal and alacrity that Mr Sibal has shown in formalising and promoting them, we are bound to see a sea change in our school education system in the very near future. Going by the track record of the state governments in implementing and enforcing laws in the past, this is a very big “if” indeed. But the very fact that such broad sweeping reforms are sought to be introduced is a wonderful beginning. Let us usher in the changes with as much enthusiasm as we can muster and hope that the “ifs” and “buts” will be resolved as we go along. A slow and even hesitant start is better than no start at
all. This concludes the series of articles on the RTE Act by the author, an
eminent educationist and Principal, Yadavindra Public School, Mohali
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Make a wise choice
Recently, a reality check with the Class XI (non-medical) students showed that given a choice, many of them would have chosen a different stream. It was clear that a combination of parental demands and peer pressure had pushed most of them into studying what they were not happy with. These precious and wonderful kids would survive the ordeal of studying subjects they were not interested in; they would perhaps cope with the stress of rushing to and fro one tutorial class to another and by the end of two years would have also appeared in every entrance test possible in the hope of that elusive seat in an engineering college which may or may not even be worth its tall claims and accreditation. Perhaps that figures somewhere in the realm of reality though this concern does not loom large on the horizon of their confused state of mind yet. Cynicism notwithstanding, there is a lot that the education policy makers, parents and educational institutes need to look into. In the mad race from school to tutorial classes and back home, there is a lot a child has to deal with, for which they are neither emotionally nor mentally equipped. What we are risking majorly are burnouts, dysfunctional personalities and a generation of confused young adults. Anu Markandeya, mother to a Class XII student, cannot recall the last time the family had an outing together. “I had prepared to give up my vacations and other holidays when my son took up the non-medical stream. For the next 2 years, life will revolve around the kids’ tuitions etc.” But what about the fun-filled family time for de-stressing? “Where is the time?” she says sadly. “Once my son gets into IIT or some good engineering college that will be the greatest stress-reliever for all.” Nowadays, more and more parents are being sucked into the vortex of the glorious dream of IIT and IIM admissions for their children. It seems that unless one is not aiming for that and moving in that direction, life is a dreadful waste. Bandeep, a Class XII (Humanities) student, remembers some offensive comments whenever anyone asked her what stream she had chosen in Class XI. “It was like I had committed the greatest blunder by choosing Arts. It was very difficult to convince my parents and more so when they were at the receiving end of some of nasty retorts from relatives and friends”, she says. In fact, the malaise lies in our education system. The problem has strong roots in the mindsets of people, too. It also has a lot do with society which looks up at engineers, doctors and MBAs and looks down at others because a ‘technical degree’ is worth an arm and a leg in India. Parents are willing to spend lakhs on tutorial packages in institutes that proclaim ‘assured results’. Routinely advertisements of such academies are seen in the newspapers complete with pictures of achievers and their rankings. It’s another matter that the same picture is used by half a dozen of their other competitors. Parents always want their children to be happy and contented individuals. The need of the hour is really for parents to reflect deeply on the decisions they enforce on their children under the pretexts of guiding them and ‘putting them on the path to success’. Success in real terms will come only when children do what they are interested in and passionate about. A handsome salary package and great perks work to create a short-term illusion of happiness. Ultimately, we are looking at dissatisfied and complicated personalities torn down the middle by cruel familial and societal expectations and wrong career choices thrust on them.
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CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar THE Centre of Food Science & Technology of Haryana Agricultural University has started a Ph.D programme in Food Science & Technology. The first batch of students will be admitted in the 2010-11 academic session. The university was recently granted permission to admit three students to this programme which would include one nominee of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). The Centre of Food Science & Technology was established in 2002. Since then it had been running only M.Sc degree programme in Food Science & Technology and has so far produced nearly 200 postgraduates who are manning various food processing industries and organisations. Besides having developed linkage with the food processing industries in the country, the centre has also entered into collaboration with the Iowa State University of America for developing programmes in quality control in food processing and training of scientists and students in this area.
Honour for Professor Dr A. S. Nandwal, Professor of Plant Physiology, has received international recognition from a US-based organisation which has selected him as international scientific expert. Dr Nandwal is presently posted as Associate Director in the Directorate of Research of the university. In recognition of his research work published in reputed international scientific journals, the New Jersey-based organisation Labome.org has identified him as international scientific expert in the field of nitrogen fixation. Dr Nandwal has also been on the panel of several international research journals, including Environmental and Experimental Botany (UK), Journal of Biochemistry, Plant, Cell and Environment (USA), Journal of Plant Physiology (Germany) and Journal of African Countries as a reviewer for research papers. Guru Jambheshwar
University of Science & Technology, Hisar The university has established a helpline at the Centre for Behaviour Research and Intervention to help students overcome stress during examinations. All college and university students of Haryana can seek help regarding examination stress on mobile numbers 9255110772 and 9254642444. Students can visit the centre personally on Mondays and Thursdays between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Telephone calls can be made between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Saturday. This helpline will remain available till May 22. Restlessness, irritability, headache, fainting, digestive problems, sleeplessness, indecisiveness, poor concentration, frustration and anger are some of the physical and psychological symptoms associated with examination stress, says Dr Sandeep Rana, coordinator, Centre for Behaviour Research and Intervention. He said students must face the examination with confidence and not to compare themselves with others. Students must concentrate on one activity at a time to avoid stress. — Contributed by Raman Mohan
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