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MADURAI: The State Government is “realigning” the school syllabus to focus on employability of students, Minister for School Education Thangam Thennarasu said on Friday. “Several job-oriented aspects like skill development and vocational training will be included in the syllabus very soon at high and higher secondary levels,” he said. The Minister told The Hindu that the School Education Department would redefine the role of vocational skills at the school level. Components that enhanced employability would be incorporated in the realigned syllabus. He was here to take part in a ‘conference on skills,’ organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Madurai Zone. Mr. Thennarasu said the Government would take steps for syllabus realignment after receiving the report from a committee headed by IAS officer Girija Vaidyanathan, which was looking into recommendations on the changes required in the school curriculum. Addressing the CII meeting, the Minister said there was an urgent need to give a competitive edge to school students, particularly in rural areas, by developing employment-oriented skills among them. “A conference on skills is certainly the need of the hour. It is a question of survival and skilled manpower is the greatest asset for any organisation or company.” “For elementary education, changes are being made by introducing activity-based learning (ABL). Our next focus is on high schools and higher secondary schools,” Mr. Thennarasu said. He lauded the CII slogan, “building people, building India,” and concurred with the view that academic qualification alone was not sufficient for employment. R. Dinesh, vice-chairman, CII (Madurai Zone), urged students to realise that learning something more than the school subject had become essential. “Very often, the industry has found that basic skills are lacking among students. So, the CII took up the task of making students employable as a social cause.” Collector S. S. Jawahar and president of CII (Madurai Zone) V. Krishnamurthy spoke.
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