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Bid to raise standard of education in Haryana

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Board of School Education has decided to set up a Research Wing to further raise the standard of education in the State, its Chairman Rajan Gupta said in Bhiwani on Tuesday.

Mr. Gupta, who is also Commissioner and Secretary, Education, was presiding over the meeting of the Board of Directors. He said that the Research Wing would study the best school teaching practices in the country and on the basis of that study qualitative improvement in syllabi, teaching-learning processes, conduct of examinations and teacher-oriented programmes would be made.

He stressed upon the need of adopting project- based learning along with workbook orientation by devising different small and big activities.

And to enhance the quality of education, the Board had decided to make five subjects including English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Science compulsory in Secondary class from academic session 2008-09 and to make the sixth subject elective. The examination of the elective subject would be conducted internally at the level of the schools.

The schools would send the results of those students who would opt for elective subject to the Board for inclusion in the certificate of Secondary class.

Mr. Gupta disclosed that computer education would be made compulsory from 2008-09 for class eleven and from 2009-10 for class twelve.

It would be compulsory for the students to study and appear for the exam. However, getting through it would not be compulsory. He said that the syllabi of Computer Education would be prepared after consulting experts.

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