The Central Advisory Board for Education (CABE) sub-committee is in favour of initiating teachers’ training programme, re-commencing of Class V and VIII board exams, besides fast tracking the recruitment process to fill vacancies so that the educational standards do not suffer and quality education is ensured.
In addition, all the members voiced their support for the formulation of an effective policy and recruitment calendar so as to fill the vacant posts of teachers besides ensuring that the recruitment is carried out at the right time.
The issues were discussed at length during the fourth meeting of CABE sub-committee at Bhubaneswar, under the chairmanship of Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema. Union Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) had formed the Committee to improve the educational standards in government schools throughout the country.
All the attending states, in the meeting, made the presentations giving details about infrastructural conditions at government schools besides offering solutions to bridge the gaps.
The meeting was attended by Karnataka Education Minister K Ratnakar, Rajasthan Education Minister Prof Vasudev Devnani, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NEUPA) Vice-Chancellor TBJ Tilak, NCERT’s Ranjana Arora, Premji Foundation’s Deepak Rajnan, Punjab DPI (Secondary Education) Balbir Singh Dhol, Principal Secretaries and other senior officers from Education Departments of Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and all North Eastern states.
All the participant states evolved a consensus about initiation of pre-primary classes in government schools as a way to improve educational standard from the formative primary level itself.
The Committee also discussed pre-service and in-service training manual of teacher training module.
The members also demanded that a department of teachers’ training should be established in all the Universities of the country and also that in each state, a national level state of the art teacher training institute should also be formed.
The members also stressed the importance of filling posts of English and Computer teachers.