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Will it be a physical or academic exercise?
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Move to merge school and intermediate education raises questions
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Will it be a physical or academic exercise?
Hyderabad: The Telangana state government’s decision to restructure school and intermediate education in line with the National Education Policy-2020-prescribed structure of 5+3+3+4 curricular and pedagogical school structure, designed around children's developmental stages from ages 3 to 18, replacing the existing 10+2+3 structure from the academic year 2027-28, has raised several questions.
Firstly, the NEP-2020 prescribed the pedagogical school structure, while leaving to the state governments the physical merger of the existing boards that independently govern school (up to Class 10) and intermediate (Classes 11 and 12) education.
Secondly, will the state government go ahead with not just the pedagogical school structure but also the physical merger of school and intermediate education?
When contacted, a senior official from the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education said, “The guidelines will be prepared after holding consultations with all the stakeholders before the state government takes a final decision. However, the directions are clear that the existing 10+2+3 will be replaced with the 5+3+3. Further, there are about 1,800 government-run junior colleges, including welfare, and residential colleges. Similarly, there are 1,435 private and private-aided junior colleges. Out of these, 156 private colleges remained non-affiliated, and 27 had nil admissions during the current academic year.
Chairman and Founder of Slate – The School, Vasireddy Amarnath, said that the full picture would be clear upon issue of the guidelines. The expected outcome could reduce the competitive examination pressure being mounted on students in terms of coaching institutions. Given the recent developments in AI, robotics, and emerging technologies, the landscape has changed.
