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Art Fair-cum-Sensitisation Programme on Art Education
The programme was held at Srimanta Sankardev Kalashetra, Guwahati from 4
to 8 October 2010. Students from the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura participated in the
programme. The specific objectives of the programme were to promote art
education and motivate students, teachers, planners, etc. of the North-Eastern
States on art education, and to encourage the creative expression of children.
Workshops on vocal music, dance and drama, painting and clay modeling, were
also conducted as a part of the activity.
NERIE Bulletin
September 2010 issue (Vol. ii, No. 2) of the NERIE bulletin was brought out. The
bulletin mainly highlights the activities of golden jubilee celebrations of NCERT,
institutional programmes, faculty news, extension programmes and also
incorporates articles related to education.
International Diploma in Guidance and Counselling
The 2nd International Diploma in Guidance and Counselling was held in the year
2010 – 11 at NERIE, Shillong. The contact programme continued for 3 months
from July to September. During the contact programme classes were held on the
theoretical bases of guidance and counselling and theory related to each of the
practical. The students conducted various activities related to guidance and
counselling like career talk, class talk, group discussion, workshop, career
exhibition, psychological testing and counselling for students in three schools of
Shillong. The examinations for the 2nd batch were also held in the month of
September 2010. Selection test and interviews for the 3rd batch were held in
December 2010 and the new batch started form January 2011. The 3rd batch
has a total of 12 students enrolled for the course. The tutorial has already been
conducted for the 3rd batch.
NCERT Memorial Lecture Series
The fourth B.M. Pugh memorial lecture was held on 10 November 2010 in the
North-East Council Secretariat, Shillong. The guest speaker was Shri Vinod Raina,
member, Central Advisory Board of Education, Convenor Basic Education, Bharat
Gyan Vigyan Samiti, and was also recently engaged in advocacy work for Right
to Education legislation and was member of its drafting committee. Shri
Hassibuddin Ahmed, a senior advocate of the Guwahati High Court chaired the
session. The lecture was attended by a large number of teachers, students, writers,
artists, NGOs, government servants and members of the local communities. Shri
Ahmed briefly introduced the theme ‘Education and Knowledge in the Time of
Globalisation: Inclusion, Quality and Agency’. The speaker introduced the theme
with an elaborate historical analysis of the change and continuity in the system
of education over periods of time to situate the question of inclusion, quality and
agency in its correct perspective. The Right to Education was then reflected and
touched upon, and wherein issues like inclusion, quality and agency found a
place in it.
List of On-going/Carried Over Programmes
� Role of NGOs in School Education at the Elementary level: Insights from NE
India
Annual Report 2010-11