Education Commission submits report to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy
Hyderabad: In a sweeping set of recommendations that could reshape schooling and higher education in the state, the Telangana Education Commission on Thursday, February 27, submitted its report to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, calling for major reforms, from how government teachers are hored and promotions to scrapping Class 10 board exams and EAPCET.
On government teachers, the Commission proposed ending automatic promotions and replacing them with a performance-based system. Under the proposal, teachers would be assessed every five years, given two years to improve if found wanting and removed from service if they still fail to meet the mark. The Commission, however, was careful to add that this would apply only to future appointees, not those already in service.
Teacher training is also in line for a shake-up. The Commission wants the Diploma in Elementary Education (D El Ed) abolished and the BEd degree split into two – BEd (Primary) covering nursery to Class 5 and BEd (Secondary) for Class 6 to Class 12. It said the National Council for Teacher Education should be consulted before these changes are made and that BEd students must complete at least 150 days of actual classroom teaching during their training.
Perhaps the most headline-grabbing recommendations concern exams. The Commission wants the Class 10 board exam abolished entirely, with board exams limited to Class 12. It has also called for scrapping the Engineering Agricultural and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test (EAPCET), the state’s engineering, agriculture and pharmacy entrance test, and using Class 12 marks instead for admissions to those courses. The minimum pass percentage, it added, should be raised from the current level to 45 per cent.
On the language of instruction, the Commission recommended English as the medium from nursery to university, alongside a three-language system (Telugu or Urdu, English and Hindi) introduced from Class 1.
The report also took aim at the largely unregulated coaching industry. The Commission called for amending laws to bring Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) coaching centres and their hostels under oversight, flagging concerns about fees, faculty, infrastructure, students’ mental health and what it termed misleading advertisements.
For universities, it proposed reconstituting Executive Councils with the Vice-Chancellor (VC) as chairman, and insisted that VC appointments be made through a transparent search committee comprising a retired Chief Secretary, a University Grants Commission (UGC) nominee and three retired VCs. It also recommended converting high-demand self-financed courses (programs funded solely through student tuition fees instead of government funding or subsidies) into regular programmes and developing Telugu University into a multi-disciplinary institution on the lines of Maulana Azad National Urdu University.
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