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Soon, a national mission on teachers, says
Pallam Raju
Thursday February 07, 2013 05:32:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Stressing
that the quality of education in the nation's schools and colleges
rested on sound teaching, Human Resource Development Minister M.M.
Pallam Raju Thursday said the government would soon launch a
national teacher's mission.
"Even with tremendous advances in technology, good teachers are
needed to provide quality education," Raju said, addressing the
One Globe Education Summit, focusing on South Asia, in the
national capital.
"In view of the tremendous need for good teachers, we will
undertake a national teacher's mission to address all issues
related to teachers in a holistic manner, at all levels," the
minister said.
Ministry officials explained that the mission would look at
teacher education in a holistic manner and in a single continuum,
covering school to university. It would suggest ways to strengthen
institutional mechanisms at all levels, so that there are vertical
and lateral linkages that could serve the community of teachers.
Speaking at the summit, the minister said that while the 11th five
year plan focused on building infrastructure, the 12th plan was
dedicated to improving the quality of education.
"During 11th Five Year Plan, large scale work on expansion had
taken place, building new institutions of higher learning," Raju
said, adding that it helped in taking the Gross Enrollment Ratio
(GER) "from 10 percent to 15 percent".
"In the 12th Five Year Plan we will be focusing on the quality of
the outcomes. During the 12th Five Year Plan, it is proposed to
create additional enrollment capacity of 10 million students,
including a million in open and distant learning. We need to
ensure access to quality education to all," he said.
The need to improve quality of education has also been spoken of
recently by President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh.
At a conference of vice-chancellors of central universities
organised by President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rastrapati Bhavan
Tuesday, the president said that India had seen a decline in the
standards of higher education, a trend that needed to be reversed.
Speaking at the same conference, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had
expressed concern that the expansion in higher education may be
occurring with a simultaneous relaxation of standards.
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