GUWAHATI: Marking his first 100 days in office on Friday, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma announced overhaul of the state education system, which includes the study required of the history and geography of India and Assam in school, improving each middle school to high school up to high school middle school to middle school to high school.
, Merging state boards of class X and XII and bring all state technical colleges under the Washington Accord.
“We have decided that History and Geography of India and Assam will be added as a compulsory subject for all students up to Class X from the next academic session under the concept of holistic education that predicted by the new education policy,” said Sarma.
The state government has also decided to apply the concept of “senior high school” of the academic session in 2022 under the National Education Policy.
With the implementation of the scheme, all high schools in the state will be automatically upgraded to the higher secondary level, added CM.
We have taken a major decision as determined by the new education policy.
Starting next year, there will be a high school system.
Each middle school will become a secondary school and higher every junior college will have a grade 9 and 10, “he added.
For this, says Sarma, there will be a rehearsal massive, which includes mergers SEBA and AHSEC.” We also will require many post-graduate teachers, “he added.
on a technical level, Sarma said,” We want to bring all of our technical colleges under the Washington Accord so that we can be a partner in the global technical movement.
Work has already begun in this direction.
“Membership of Washington Accord is the international recognition of the quality of technical education undergraduate courses offered by member countries and is a way to bring it into the category of world class.
It is encouraging and facilitating the mobility of engineering graduates and professionals at the international level, the Council of the National Accreditation India became a member of a signatory permanent Washington Accord on June 13, 2014.
Sarma said the state medical colleges “is undoubtedly the best in the country, barring AIIM and several other universities.”