Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Raise standard of school and college education

From the day one Mr. Kapil Sibal was appointed as the Union Human Resources Minister in Manmohan Singh-led UPA-11 Council of Ministers, he started in right direction the much needed educational reforms at all levels. He has introduced grading system in CBSE 10th standard to do away with examination to destress the students for scoring high percentage of marks. No doubt, the students were under immense pressure from all sides for bringing high percentage of marks. The Minister has initiated steps to remove percentage with grade so as the students could be kept safe from stress trauma, which has often resulted in taking suicidal steps being taken by disillusioned students. If the students who scored low percentage of marks, they had to face immense trouble in admission to the reputed colleges of the country. Though the move of grading system for class 10th in CBSE is still to be finally implemented, it is a good idea for the benefit of students. The introduction of grading system also requires the teachers to be trained well to judge the merits of students and according to which they could award them the grade they deserve. Now a move is underway to be introduced to raise the criterian of marks in 12th class to sit in the entrance tests for IITs. Sibal has rightly favoured more weightage be given to Class 12 Board exam for IIT entrance and felt that the required minimum of 60 per cent marks could be raised but left it to a Committee to take a decision. Sibal's suggestion came in an attempt to ensure that students taking entrance tests to the premier institutes gave equal importance to the secondary school exam and to check the growth of IIT coaching centres. IITs require best minds and the best minds could be found among the lakhs of students through proper criteria of screening.The Human Resources ministry has rightly thought of raising the eligibility standard for the tests held for admission to IITs-the country's premier engineering institutions. Now the eligibility criteria of scoring 60 per cent is thought to be raised to 80 to 85 per cent for sitting in tests for admission in IITs. This has also rightly been done to check the mushrooming growth of coaching institututes, which train the students for sitting in the test for admission to IITs. The coaching institutes have made the education a thriving business and they earn crores of rupees per month. Because after doing 10th, it is seen that most of the students pay little attention of scoring high marks in 12th examination and they take admission in various coaching institutues to prepare themselves for the entrance test for admission to the premier institutes of IITs in the country.

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