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Plan to raise SSLC pass percentage

Staff Reporter

For schools in Kozhikode district

KOZHIKODE: A comprehensive education project for high schools, conceived by the district panchayat, will be inaugurated during the third week of September.

M. Radhakrishnan, Chairman of the panchayat's Standing Committee on Education and Health, said here on Tuesday that the project had been envisaged to raise the standard of education and facilities in schools.

"The pass percentage in the last SSLC [Secondary School Leaving Certificate] examination in the district was 72.68. Though this is higher than the State average of 65 per cent, the objective is to achieve a higher SSLC pass percentage of 80 per cent," Mr. Radhakrishnan said.

The city corporation and the Vadakara and Koyilandy municipalities will help to implement the project.

Of the 195 Government and aided schools in the district, 41 registered pass percentages less than 60 per cent last time.

He said special training would be provided to students in these schools under the project. Activities of cultural and other clubs there would be made more effective.

Twenty-four resource centres would be set up in Government schools. Each of the three educational districts would have centres for every subject. A master resource centre would function in the city.

Mr. Radhakrishnan said the academic council set up for the purpose would oversee the functioning of the reference library, the laboratory and information technology-related learning at the resource centres.

Meetings of teachers of respective subjects would be organised on a monthly basis to elicit suggestions from them and bring about improvement.

Mr. Radhakrishnan said better coordination of the functioning of the District Institute of Educational Training (DIET), the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and the Education Department was envisaged.

The DIET Principal would be the convener of the academic council. K. Sreedharan had been appointed Director of the master resource centre.

Conveners of the other resource centres are K. Papputty, E. Sreedharan, and Kodakkat Sreedharan.

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