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The Trade and Commerce subjects must include the contemporary financial and
economic trends in the local and international markets which are increasingly getting
interconnected.
These are just a few examples of the new syllabuses that need to be designed. The
idea is to encourage students to apply their education in the new environments
keeping in view the employment requirements of the modern world.
Accordingly, all the school books need to be changed as the present books are
totally irrelevant and carry unstructured content. Supplementary education, moral
education, and soft skills should be integrated with the conventional school
education.
4. New Teachers
It is seen that almost all the teachers in government as well as private schools in
India are not competent enough to teach in a modern environment.
The existing teachers in the schools should be asked to appear for a specially
created teacher eligibility test to know if they can teach the subjects for the
revamped syllabuses of different classes.
Only those teachers who clear the test comprehensively should be retained; others
should be asked to take voluntary retirement. New teachers’ appointment should
also be based on their academic record and performance in the teacher eligibility
test. Plus, domain experts should be appointed as teachers and advisors.
5. Crackdown on Private Tuitions
Although government rules restrict private tuitions, the business of private tuitions
has become a big racket in India including Delhi. School teachers, who are not
supposed to ask students to take private tuitions, are pushing students into this mud.
If teachers cannot teach students properly in the school classes, why are they being
paid salaries? And why are the students who can afford private tuitions being paid
monetary allowances in government schools with the assumption that they are poor?
School teachers and students must submit affidavits that they will stay away from
private tuitions.
The government should declare private tuitions as an illegal trade and carry out a
widespread crackdown on private tuition shops most of which are being run by
semi-literate people.
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