Quality control teams must in schools

Updated on: Friday, January 29, 2010

Kolkata: The Centre has envisaged a quality monitoring plan for the new education and evaluation system, which state governments have to take up in consultation with empowered bodies. According to sources in the HRD ministry, schools have to hold tests on several subjects — language, mathematics, environmental science, social science — at least twice, spread over the four quarters.

There will be a quality control team to identify students getting D and E (below 50%) in each subject. This team will sit with teachers and decide whether the low score was a result of the method of teaching or lack of equipment. Once this is done, teachers will have to help students achieve the desired levels.

Private tuition is banned under this system. “We have just attended a seminar on national curriculum framework at Bhubaneswar to do away with the annual examination. The discussion is yet to reach the final stage,†said Shukla Roy, principal of Bethune Collegiate School.

Rabindranath Haldar of Sanskrit Collegiate School said, “There will be fewer dropouts in the new system.

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