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“Education will be treated holistically from pre-nursery to class XII”, says Finance Minister

Expressing concern over the quality of education, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley has said that education will be treated in a holistic manner from pre-nursery to Class XII.   Presenting the General Budget 2018-19 in Parliament here today, the Finance Minister expressed the Government’s resolve to increase the digital intensity in education.  “The Government proposes to gradually move away from ‘‘black board’’ to ‘‘digital board,’’ he said.  The Finance Minister underlined that a district-wise strategy for improving the quality of education is also being prepared.    Emphasising the need to step up investment in research and related infrastructure in leading educational institutions, the Finance Minister announced the proposal to launch a major initiative named “Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE)”. Shri Jaitley said that over the next four years, a total of Rs. 1, 00, 000 crore will be invested in the initiative. Referring to higher education, Shri Jaitley announced the launch of ‘‘Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF)’’ Scheme. He pointed out that 1,000 best B.Tech students will be identified from premier institutions each year and facilities will be provided to them to undertake Ph.D. in IITs and IISc with an attractive fellowship.   Acknowledging the critical nature of the training of teachers during service, the Finance Minister also referred to the move to initiate an integrated B.Ed. programme for teachers. The Finance Minister pointed to the need for best quality education to the tribal children in their own environment. “To realize this mission, it has been decided that by the year 2022, every block with more than 50% ST population and at least 20,000 tribal persons, will have an Ekalavya Model Residential School”, Shri Jaitley said. He emphasized that Ekalavya schools will be treated at par with Navodaya Vidyalayas and will have special facilities for preserving local art and culture, besides providing training in sports and skill development. Referring to the initiative of setting up Institutes of Eminence, Shri Jaitley said that more than 100 applications have been received.  “We have also taken steps to set up a specialized Railways University at Vadodara”, the Finance Minister said.He added that 18 new Schools of Planning & Architecture (SPAs) will also be established in IITs and NITs as autonomous schools. Stressing the need to reach out to every household of old, widows, orphaned children, divyaang and deprived as defined by the Socio-Economic Caste Census, the Finance Minister enumerated the implementation of a comprehensive social security and protection programme. He announced that a sum of Rs.9, 975 crores has been allocated for the National Social Assistance Programme this year. Read the full article

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Education in the Philippines

I am a graduating education student. For a span of 2 months I was able to handle hing school students. I gave the best that I can to fully impart the knowledge needed for them to be competent and to prepare them for the more complex topics in the certain subject area that I’m teaching. In my first week as a practice teacher I was asked to encode and compute for the grades of the students after finishing and printing all the grades I got a little bit disappointed because the teacher who asked me to encode and compute the grades wanted me to give additional points to the students who paid for a certain activity in school which for me is unfair to other students who didn’t pay because they don’t have the means to pay such activity. And she also wanted to give additional points to students who got a low grade which then again is unfair to the students because if you are going to give an additional point to one student then it should also be applied to all the students. Right?

And then here comes the next quarter, encoding and computing of grades again, and of course the same as the first quarter, the teacher wanted me to change the grades that I’ve computed, she wanted me again to give the students additional points.

Our role as a teacher is to teach the students and to compute their grades not falsify them.

If all the teachers here in the Philippines do this, then what will happen to our education system? The students are so happy that they got a high grade, little did they know that the effort that they give in studying was not enough for them to receive that high grade.