Admissions stopped in Vocational streams due to lack of students

Updated on: Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Tamil Nadu school education department has stopped admission to Class XI in 87 government schools imparting vocational education, as there were less than 15 students in some vocational streams.

The teachers working in those schools were transferred to other schools in the same district.
Last year, the school education department constituted a high level committee to review the status of the vocational education courses offered in higher secondary schools in the state and to revamp the vocational education in accordance with the present requirements.

The committee recommended that classes with less than 15 students in class XI and XII can be closed.

In accordance with the recommendation, vocational courses in 66 higher secondary schools were closed and the teachers were shifted to other schools in the same district.

About 87 schools in the next academic year will also face the axe from school education department.

The committee had recommended that the curriculum should have two vocational subjects including theory and practical components with 20 periods per week Language syllabus should be reworked based on national curriculum design.

Vocational groups having one practical course should be converted to general stream. In groups where the fourth optional was a vocational subject its utility has to be examined on a case-to-case basis.

Kalvimalar

Admissions stopped in Vocational streams due to lack of students

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