EDUCATION IN INDIA
The goal of society is to bring up its children to be highly competent individuals.Educators and parents are given the task of developing the potential in our children.
Education is available to a wide range of potential students regardless of their situation or background.The decision to take advantage of an education is in our hands.No school can force us to learn.We are responsible for seeking out opportunities and weaving school into the fabric of our life.
Education helps us to succeed in the following ways:
1.It improves your quality of life.
2.It helps you to evolve and grow into a more mature person.
3.It provides us with various opportunities the using of which lies in each of us.
4.It makes us into a complete person.
Education is more than just going to school and earning a degree.Education is what you make of it.Adedicated goal oriented learner will benefit more than a student who does not focus.Education is a continuous and a creative process.It is of great instrumental value in the process of economic growth and development.
The various syllabus followed in Indian school are outlined below:
1.National Institute Of Open School.
2.Indian Secondary School Of Education.
3.Central Board Of Secondary Education
4.State Board
5.Anglo Indian Board
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OPEN SCHOOL
For any child the process of self learning begins with the first step it takes.Open learning serves as a source of education for the disadvantaged sections of the society.It is advantageous to the physically and mentally challenged,school dropouts,residents of rural and remote areas.Open schooling is often preferred by students pursuing careers which require them to devote more time than a formal school system with its rigid structure and attendance compulsion can permit.Students who wish to choose combinations of subjects also to turn to open school.The NIOS has evolved as an offbranch of the CBSE education.
EDUCENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY CATION.
This is an eminent board of education in India.The CBSE prepares students from LKG TO Class 12.It conducts 2 board exams-The All India Secondary School Education for class 10 and The All India Senior Secondary Certificate Examination for class 12. The medium is English/hindi.It is widely recognized internationally for direct admission to university undergraduate course.
INDIAN CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION.
It is like CBSE.It is an examination conducted for class 10.Private candidates are not permitted to appear for this examination.For all subjects except science and computers the student must submit compulsory course work assignments.In subjects where there is more than one paper the mark is calculated by taking the average of all papers in the subject.
TAMILNADU BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
It is under the Department of Education and the Government offer the following:
1.SSLC(Secondary School Leaving Certificate)
2.Anglo Indian Stream
3.OSLC(Oriental School Leaving Certificate)
4.Matriculation stream.
As for Higher Secondary (Class 11 and 12) there is a unified stream leading to the award of Higher Secondary Certificate(HSC)
The board evaluates the students progress by conducting the Board Examination at the end of class 10 and at the end of class 12.The scores of class 12 are used by Universities to determine eligibility and as a cut off for admission.
Education now in India is undergoing great changes.Today education is not taken as a means to inculate in our children a sense of patriotism nor can a h holistic view be taken.We must always remember that education is the biggest asset we can give our children.