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ELECTION 2018
EDUCATION

The Committee noted that the current board exami- The draft Policy recommends that multiple public
nations force students to concentrate only on a few schools should be brought together to form a school
subjects, do not test learning in a formative manner, complex. A complex will consist of one second-
and cause stress among students. To track students’ ary school (classes nine to twelve) and all the public
progress throughout their school experience, the schools in its neighbourhood that offer education
draft Policy proposes State Census Examinations in from pre-primary till class eight. The school complex-
classes three, five and eight. Further, it recommends es will also include anganwadis, vocational education
restructuring the board examinations to test only core facilities, and an adult education centre. Each school
concepts, skills and higher order capacities. complex will be a semi-autonomous unit provid-
These board examinations will be on a range of sub- ing integrated education across all stages from early
jects. The students can choose their subjects, and the childhood to secondary education. This will ensure
semester when they want to take these board exams. that resources such as infrastructure and trained
The in-school final examinations may be replaced teachers can be efficiently shared across a school
by these board examinations. The Committee noted complex.
that establishing primary schools in every habitation
across the country has helped increase access to edu- TENURE OF TEACHERS
cation. However, it has led to the development of very The Committee noted that there has been a steep
small schools (having low number of students). The rise in teacher shortage, lack of professionally quali-
small size of schools makes it operationally complex fied teachers, and deployment of teachers for non-
to deploy teachers and critical physical resources. educational purposes. The draft Policy recommends

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