Education in five year plans

Education in five year plans

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  PRASANTH.S.R M.COM., M.ED. ASSISTANT PROFESSOROF COMMERCE EDUCATION
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  INTRODUCTION Education, in itsbroadest sense of development of youth, is the most crucial input for empowering people with skills and knowledge and giving them access to productive employment in future. Improvements in education are not only expected to enhance efficiency but also the overall quality of life. The Eleventh Plan places the highest priority on education as a central instrument for achieving rapid and inclusive growth. It presents a comprehensive strategy for strengthening the education sector covering all segments of the education pyramid.
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  ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Elementary educationincludes, classes I–VIII consisting of primary (I–V) and upper primary (VI– VIII) is the foundation of the pyramid in the education system.
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   Universal enrolmentof 6–14 age group children for elementary education. Substantial improvement in quality and standards with the ultimate objective to achieve standards of Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) pattern. All gender, social, and regional gaps in enrolments to be eliminated by 2011–12. One year pre-school education (PSE) for children entering primary school. • Dropout at primary level to be eliminated and the dropout rate at the elementary level to be reduced from over 50% to 20% by 2011–12. Universal coverage of ICT at UPS by 2011–12. Significant improvement in learning conditions with emphasis on learning basic skills, verbal and quantitative.
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  SECONDARY EDUCATION: GOALS,TARGETS, AND STRATEGIES FOR THE ELEVENTH PLAN The Eleventh Plan aims to: (i) raise the mini- mum level of education to class X and accordingly universalize access to secondary education; (ii) ensure good quality secondary education with focus on Science, Mathematics, and English; (iii) aim towards major reduction in gender, social, and regional gaps in enrolments, dropouts, and school retention. The norm will be to provide a secondary school within 5 km and a higher secondary school within 7–8 km of every habitation.
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  The Eleventh Planwould be a Quality Plan in respect of the education sector. The following specific programmes are proposed to be taken up in teacher education during the Eleventh Plan • Strengthening Teacher Education by developing Teacher Education Information Base in Public Domain • Continuation of existing scheme relating to SCERTs. • Conducting training of Educational Administrators including Head Teachers. • Introducing stipend scheme for enabling teachers and educational administrators to enhance their academic qualifications. • Professional Development of teacher through train- ing programmes. • Professional Development of Teacher Educators through Refresher Courses and Fellowship programmes. • Technology in Teacher Education. • Integrating Elementary Teacher Education with Higher Education.
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  • Universalizing thesemester system. • Continuous internal evaluation and assessment to eventually replace annual examinations. • Introducing Credit System to provide students with the possibility of spatial and temporal flexibility/ mobility. • Curriculum revision at least once in every three years or earlier to keep syllabi in tune with job market dynamics and advancement in research. • Restructuring of NET/SET with greater emphasis on recruitment of adequate and good quality teachers. • Expansion of research programmes/projects and incentivizing research faculty through funded projects/research. • Setting up of a new Inter-university Centre on higher education to undertake specialized research for policy formulation.
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  TECHNICAL EDUCATION: GOALSAND TARGETS IN ELEVENTH PLAN The Eleventh Plan envisages setting up of 8 new IITs, 7 new IIMs, 10 new NITs, 3 IISERs, 20 IIITs, and 2 new SPAs. In establishing these institutions the scope for PPPs will be explored. Seven selected technical institutions will be upgraded. Efforts will be made to establish 50 centres for training and research in frontier areas like Biotechnology, Bio-informatics, Nano-materials and Nano– technologies, Mechatronics,, High Performance Computing, Engineering, etc
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  FINANCING EDUCATION IN THEELEVENTH PLAN The government has pledged to raise public spending on education to 6% of Gross Domestic Prod- uct (GDP). In the Eleventh Plan, Central Government envisages an outlay of about Rs 2.70 lakh crore at cur- rent price for education. The share of education in the total plan outlay will correspondingly increase from 7.7% to 19.4%. Around 50% of Eleventh Plan outlay is for elementary education and literacy, 20% for secondary education, and 30% for higher education (including technical education).