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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM PATTERN OF HIGHER SECONDARY, VOCATIONAL AND COLLEGIATE EDUCATION IN MAHARASHTRA STATE AUGUST 1972-FEBRUARY 1974 Office of the Minister for Education : Sachivalaya, Bombay-32 20th February 1974. FOREWORD I am happy to know that the State Level Committee on the 10 plus 2 plus 3 pattern of Education has concluded its labours and submitted its report to Government. Since Maharashtra’s Policy Statement on Education was issued and implemented, various steps to strengthen and restructure education have already been taken during last four years. Standards V, VI and VII have been treated as Secondary Standards. English has been reintroduced from Standard V. New Mathematics and up-to-date Science syllabi have been introduced, alongwith Social Service, Scouting and Work Experience in Secondary Classes. Teachers have been imparted orientation education and Training Colleges have been humming with activity to man all schools with trained teachers. Institutes of Education and Secondary Board of Education have been endeavouring to introduce innovations, evolve new technology and upgrade quality of teachers as well as of text-books and educational aids. Subject-matter teachers associations, colleges and school complexes and higher resource personnel have rendered yeomen service in achieving qualitative and quantitative improvements we are aiming at. Thus, the ground hjis been fairly well prepared for embarking on the uniform 10 plus 2 plus 3 pattern of education on which the Central Advisory Board of Educa tion and the Chief Ministers’ Conference have set their seals of approval. Maha rashtra was perhaps the first and the only State which set up a State Level Committee and Sub-committees of educational experts to consider and weigh all aspects and details of the problem and I am glad their deliberations have already proved extremely useful to Government in framing the Fifth Five Year Plan of education. In fact, the Junior I. T. Is. pattern of education and ful-fledged schemes for Careers and Education Guidance etc. received whole hearted support from the Ministry of Education and Planning Commission in Delhi. Full support has been received also for the unique scheme for Institutes of Higher Education, proposed to be set up to improve the techniques and teaching of Higher Secondary and College teachers. The plan for strengthening Industrial Training Institutes in the State, along with the whole Department of Technical Education as well as Engineering College, Poona and Institutes of Science in the State has also been approved. Our Vice-Chancellors and Principals of Colleges have also co-operated in giving an excellent lead in restructuring and improving education at all levels, and in increasing productivity in the college system as proposed in their valuable reports which is being reproduced here. The Committees on Vocational and Professional courses had a difficult task but the experienced experts who served unstintingly on these Committees have tackled it well. We must be grateful to them all. That Government could readily secure the co-operation of representatives of various educational institutions in the State and even outside along with some ex members of the Education Commission and ex-Directors of Education besides the Registrars and Vice-Chancellors of our Universities to give us the benefit of their expertise and experience shows how anxious we all are to turn a new leaf and build a Brave New World of and for our children. Luckily, for us, the legal frame-works of the new Universities Bills and the Education Bill etc., are also on the anvil and they have taken advance notice of the revised educational pattern and institutional set-up in the State. May I therefore, congratulate the Chairman, Dr. A. U. Shaikh, and the members of the State Level Committee and all its Sub-Committees on their assiduous and excellent work? May I at the same tone hope that all our educational/institutional and departmental leadership and personnel will fully imbibe, understand and co operate in implementing all the constructive suggestions in this Report, which Government will carefully sift and pass on to them without loss of time? ANANT NAMJOSHI, Minister fo r Education. CONTENTS Chapter Paras Paoes 1 Preamble .. 1-6 1-2 2 Starting of Higher Secondary Classes .. 7-18 2-5 3 Courses .. .. 19-20 5-6 4 Requirements of the Higher Secondary Institutions .. .. 21 7-8 5 Fees .. 22 8 6 Age .. 23-24 8 7 Admission to Polytechnics (Diploma in Engineering) .. 25-26 8-9 8 Maharashtra State Board of School Education ....................27-30 9 9 Loans for Construction 6f Classrooms .. 31 9 10 Vocationalisation .. 32-45 9-12 g o -M *3-^0 11 Financial Provisions • • "1UAc ci1 - xznrrlU A 12 Summary of Recommendations ................ 31-43 13 Appendices . • • . • • 44-165 H 5120—b REPORT OF THE STATE LEVEL COMMITTEE ON HIGHER SECONDARY, VOCATIONAL AND COLLEGIATE EDUCATION. In accordance with the present pattern of education obtaining in the State of Maharashtra, Preamble. S.S.C. Examination is held at the end of Std. XI. Barring the University of Bombay, the students desiring to continue University Education in other Universities in the State, have to undergo pre-Degree Course of one year after S.'S. C. Examination before they take up Degree Course of three years. So far as the Bombay University is concerned, the Degree Course is of duration of four years from first year to degree. This, of course, relates to (1) Humanities, (2) Science, and (3) Commerce. So far as professional courses such as Law, Engineering, Medicine are concerned, the pattern is different and these courses branch of after taking education in Art, Science or Commerce Colleges for certain number of years. 2. In a conference of Chief Ministers of States and in a meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education held at New Delhi in 1972, it was unanimously decided that there should be a common pattern of education for the entire country and it should conform to the formula now commonly known as lO-f-2+3. The Maharashtra Government has accepted this recom mendation and has taken steps particularly in revising syllabus so as to bring this new pattern into practice, from June 1975. As a first step, the revised syllabus has been introduced in Std. VIII from June 1972 and those who are following this revised syllabus will appear for their S. S. C. Examination at the end of the Std. X in March 1975. 3. Prior to introduction of the revised syllabus, there was no uniformity at the secondary stage of education in different regions of the State. The introduction of revised syllabus has brought about uniformity at the secondary stage of education in different regions of the State, and by June 1975, the duration and courses will be common for all students in the secondary stage. As a result, it has become necessary to integrate the programme at the higher secondary stage, i. e. Standards XI and XII and Degree curricula with diversified courses including voca tionalisation in Stds. XI and XII. Consequently, a number of issues, such as dovetailing of syllabi, the conduct of examinations, staffing pattern of higher secondary and Degree classes and financial repercussions on high schools, colleges, and the Universities and administration were required to be tackled with prudence and care. Looking to the complexity of the problems, it was considered necessary to appoint a State Level Committee to discuss and decide these issues so that Government could then take its own decisions. Accordingly, a State Level Committee w|ts appointed by Government under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Education Department in its Government Resolution, Education Department, No. ECR-1072 R (I), dated 31st August 1972. The official and non-official members of the Committee were as per Appendix ‘A’. The Committee was asked to make its recommendations to Government within a period of six months ending 28th February 1973. As the issues involved had far-reaching effects and as the work was of complicated nature, the Committee could not conclude its report during this period and its term was consequently extended by, six months ending 31st August 1973, and further extended from time to time by 6 months upto 28th February 1974, and the terms of reference of the Committee were as under :— (1) To consider and examine the question of reorganisation of the present set-up and practices for introducing 2+3 years pattern of Higher Secondary and Collegiate Education now that the 10 years uniform S. S. C. Course has been introduced throughout the State. (2) To suggest ways to bring about uniformity of action regarding syllabus, administra tive arrangements, examination systems etc. and to integrate S. S. C., Higher Secondary and Collegiate Education Programmes and arrangements. (3) To prepare programme for advance action which is required to be taken by Schools, Colleges and Universities to readjust themselves in all respects including curricula, accom modation, equipments, teaching staff, examination patterns etc. (4) To suggest modifications, if necessary, to the grant-in-aid formula, for Schools, Colleges and Universities in the light of academic, administrative, and financial repercussions as well. (5) To study the legal provisions in respect of the education system and to suggest recasting of the same. (6) To examine and lay down the criteria for upgrading of some well equipped and well staffed secondary schools in suitable areas as centres of higher secondary education. (7) To consider the question as to whether it would be necessary to lay down condi tion, subject to fulfilment of which the colleges can be permitted to undertake teaching for the 11th and 12th standards for various diversified courses and if so, to suggest the same. (8) To consider if and how the conduct of examination should be entrusted to a State Board of Higher Secondary Education, to be constituted and/or the Universities H 5120—1 2 (9) To consider and recommend how vocationalisation should be attempted in an appropriate manner so as to provide for terminal certificate and other vocational courses and diploma education.