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traditional responsibilities of monitoring school process. As communities are
also not much aware of the role to be played by them, there is no monitoring of
the school especially in the rural areas either by the government or by the
community. In this backdrop private English medium schools are coming up in
Manipur where more than 63% of children are enrolled in private English medium
schools.
A Status Study of Commerce Education in Higher Secondary Schools of
North-Eastern States
The study was carried out with the objectives of finding out the status of commerce
education in states in terms of infrastructure, teachers, management and also
the status of teachers in terms of training, gender, area, SES, qualification, etc.
The study reveals that majority of the commerce higher secondary schools are
government schools and some of the private schools which do run commerce
stream had to shut down commerce stream due to low enrolment. The students
prefer government schools because of the fee structure. The finding also shows
that most of the schools do not have proper infrastructural facilities like classroom,
playground, display board, drinking water facilities, library, and staffroom, etc.
Further the number of male teachers teaching commerce education is higher
when compared to female teachers. Most of the teachers teaching commerce
subjects do not have a teaching degree and most of the teachers use lecture
method in the classroom. There is no link between institutions and industries in
this area. Education in any discipline has two inter-related and inter-linked
complementary aspects-conceptual knowledge and practical knowledge. Both
are complementary to each other and commerce education in North-Eastern
Region is lacking in this aspect. Therefore, to improve the quality of this stream
the classroom teaching methods should be reoriented more on practical approach.
DEVELOPMENT
Development of Material for Strengthening Existing School Curriculum
and Syllabus for HIV/AIDS Education at the Higher Secondary Level
A workshop for the development of material for strengthening existing school
curriculum and syllabus for HIV/AIDS education at the higher secondary level
was organised at NERIE, Shillong from 2 to 6 August 2010. Experts in the area of
curriculum and textbooks from state Board of Higher Secondary Education and
other experts from NACO, NGOs and universities contributed in the workshop.
Training-cum-Workshop for the Development of Language Primers in
Recognised Languages of Manipur with reference to NCF-2005
The programme was held in two phases at Board of Secondary Education,
Manipur from 9 to 13 November 2010 and 15 to 19 November 2010. The
objectives of the programme was to develop language primers in minority
languages of Manipur, namely, Tanghkul, Rongmei, Kom, Mao, Zou, Paite, Hmar,
Thadou-kuki, Lushai, and Vaiphei and to promote language education in North-
Eastern Region. The workshop charted out the contents of the primer. The
workshop identified the teaching points, language goals and the accompanying
pedagogy to develop the primer. The primer development process that was
followed had a bearing with the principles of moving from known to unknown,
from simple to complex and familiar to unfamiliar. It began with the following
language teaching goals in respective primary classes. Listening to the language,
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