Live
- Mandal Level CM Cup Sports Concludes in Ija with Promising Talent and Enthusiastic Participation
- Harish Rao Slams Revanth Reddy: "More Talk, Less Action"
- Revolutionising Oil and Gas: Gaurav Kumar Sinha’s AI-Driven Innovations Transforming Efficiency and Profitability
- Vishal Jain to head AiDASH facility
- Congress Central Election Committee has finalised the names of around 20 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections
- District Collector Adarsh ​​Surabhi has ordered to expedite the land acquisition process related to irrigation projects in the district
- Economics and Public policy gets new platform in Bengaluru
- Residents Demand Action After Accidents Highlight Poor Road Safety Measures
- Rahul Gandhi Visits Hathras Victim's Family, Slams BJP For Injustice
- Nitin Gadkari Admits India's Road Safety Crisis, Urges Change In Human Behavior And Infrastructure
Move to make accreditation mandatory for schools
Telangana State Directorate of School Education has proposed to make accreditation of schools compulsory. The proposal is intended to ensure standards in school education.
- Directorate of School Education moots it to ensure standards in educational institutions
- It will also help checkmate managements fleecing the students in the name of tuition fee
Hyderabad: Telangana State Directorate of School Education has proposed to make accreditation of schools compulsory. The proposal is intended to ensure standards in school education.
The proposal envisages adopting guidelines being followed by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The NAAC assesses and grades the higher educational institutions across the country.
The Directorate of School Education has proposed to constitute an independent body to inspect and grant accreditation to school. Basing on the grades to be given by the independent body, the Directorate of School Education will fix the fee of each school.
“All the colleges are going for the NAAC grading for quality check and also for the funds. The quality of the schools will be checked with this assessment,” said a senior official of the Directorate of School Education. Further, to crack down on the errant private and corporate schools, the Directorate of Schools intends to regulate the school fee on the lines of the professional courses.
While there are District Regulatory Committees which deals with school fee regulation, the Directorate proposes to have a separate body which would take care of regulating the private schools which charge exorbitant fee. Hence, it is mulling constituting a body on the lines of Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) and Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC).
Presently, AFRC which is headed by a retired judge and comprises of members drawn from different field fixes fee for the professional colleges based on the facilities, infrastructure and faculty for period of three years.
Schools in the State are increasing the tuition fee by 40 to 50 per cent and some of them are charging fee between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 2 lakh for primary and upper primary schools. While they charge a bomb from the parents, the salaries paid to the staff are meagre. The officials said the move would checkmate schools managements collecting exorbitant fee.
“Some schools are charging more than what the engineering colleges are charging. Government orders regulating the school fee were quashed by the High Court. This proposal is on, however, it requires a nod from the government before it is put into force,” a senior official said.
By:Yuvraj Akula
