Secondary Education: Concerns & Issues

UNIT – 5

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Secondary Education: Concerns & Issues

5.1 Secondary School Stage: It’s Linkage With Primary & Higher Secondary Stages of Education.

5.2 Aims of Secondary School Stages of Education.

5.3 Universalization of Secondary School Stages of Education: It’s Status.

5.3.(i) Quantitative Expansion.

5.3.(ii) Issues in Secondary School Stages of Education: Privatization, Vocationalization.

5.3.(ii) A. Privatizations of Education.

5.3.(ii) B. Vocationalization of Education.

5.3.(iii) A. Reforms in Secondary School Stages Education: Curriculum.

5.3.(iii) B. Reforms in Secondary School Stages Education: Pedagogical.

5.3.(iii) C. Reforms in Secondary School Stages Education: Examinations.

5.4 Rashtriya Madhyamika Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA): Goals & Policy.

Intervention for Quality Secondary School Stages of Education.

1. Rashtriya Madhyamika Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA), National Mission for Secondary Education, is a central sponsored scheme.
2. This RMSA is provided by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
3. Main aim of RMSA for the development of secondary education in public schools throughout India.

Planning Secondary Education – Reasons

1. Day-to-day, there are more new necessary needs to develop in education field.
2. Since, National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986 has been no more changes.
3. Also in Ninth Plan having structure and organization of the secondary and higher secondary school systems has no change.
4. To minimize the various disparities and integration to important curriculum, vocationalization and employment-oriented, it needs to re-planned.
5. As it will come with importance to expanding and diversifying the open learning system, teacher training with information and communication technology (ICT)
6. Free education and hostel facilities for girls and integrated education for the disabled children also brought into analysis.
7. As it visions to make good quality education with accessible and affordable to the all young persons.

RMSA Objectives

1. To ensure that all secondary schools have physical facilities with fulfilled teaching staff.
2. Have to supply at least according to the prescribed standards thriugh financial support in case of Government Local Body and Government aided schols.
3. In case of other schools the facilities should be appropriate regulatory mechanism.
4. To improve access to secondary schooling to all young persons required norms through proximate location.
5. The distance range of secondary schools within 5 KMs and higher secondary schools within 7 to 10 KMs.
6. To provide efficient and safe transport arrangements residential facilities.
7. In hilly and difficult areas relaxed by residential schools may be set up.
8. To ensure that no child is deprived of secondary education of satisfactory quality due to gender, socio-economic, disability and other barriers.
9. To improve quality of secondary education resulting in enhancing intellectual, social and cultural learning.
10. To ensure that all students pursuing secondary education of good quality.

Important Physical Facilities – Provided by RMSA

1. Additional Classrooms.
2. Laboratories.
3. Libraries.
4. Art and Craft Room.
5. Toilet Blocks.
6. Drinking Water Provisions.
7. Residential Hostels for Teachers in Remote Areas.
8. To Provide Additional Teachers.
9. Training of Teachers.
10. Science Laboratories.
11. ICT Enabled Education.
12. Curriculum Reforms.
13. Teaching Learning Reforms.

Important Equity interventions – Under RMSA Scheme

1. Special focus n micro planning.
2. Preference to Ashram Schools for up gradation.
3. Preference to areas with concentration of SC/ST/Minority for opening schools.
4. Special enrollment drive for the weaker section.
5. More female teachers in the schools.
6. Separate toilet blocks for girls.

Planning for Children With Special Needs (CWSN)

The persons with disabilities ACT, 1995 the education for CWSN received as with,

1. Free access towards education.
2. Allotted lands for certain purposes.
3. Non-discrimination in transports.
4. Financial incentive for research.
5. Capacity building among teachers for children.

Role of RMSA

Quality improvement

In school must having the following promotions,

1. Science Laboratories
2. Environmental education
3. Promotion of Yoga
4. Population Education Project
5. International Mathematics
6. Science Olympiads
7. In-service training for teacher
8. Infrastructure
9. Research inputs

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

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