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Focus on uniform school curricula

BHUBANESWAR: Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE) is trying to bring in uniformities among school curricula across all the State boards, said its president Ashok Ganguly here on Wednesday.

Speaking to a group of media persons here, Mr. Ganguly, who is also chairman of Council of Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), said there was about 70 per cent of uniformity in curriculum of science subjects and attempts would be made to raise the similarities to above 90 per cent.

Gradually the same process could be taken forward to other subjects and individual case studies could be conceptualized in local curriculum, Mr. Ganguly said. COBSE has about 42 boards with three national boards and 39 state boards.

He said issues of distressing school curriculum and uniform curriculum would be discussed in detail at the upcoming symposium to be held during August 9th and 10th.

Expressing concerns over deteriorating standards of faculties, the CBSE chairman said, “our teachers are slowly becoming semi-skilled. In wake of new pedagogy and subjects, teachers cannot handle their duties properly.”

The state boards should at least spend 1.5 per cent to 2 per cent of their annual budget for training of in-service teachers, he proposed.

CBSE was now working newer subjects such as film and media studies and gender studies which could be introduced in school curriculum, Mr. Ganguly said adding that for other job-oriented courses it had sought cooperation from different industry bodies.

COBSE president also stressed on empowerment of head of the institution saying it was a critical component to induce a proper atmosphere for studies in schools. CBSE had already sought help of best business schools across the country to make the heads of the institutions skilled in managing affairs.

Among other priorities, the State boards would be encouraged to set up mathematics laboratories, Mr. Ganguly said. “Mathematics cannot be taught in two dimensional ways. Students from class III onwards must be given such facilities. It does not require additional space.”

He further said the newly carved out States such as Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand had sought board’s assistance.

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