A new State Education Policy (SEP) that maintains the current educational system has been released by the West Bengal Department of Education. On September 9, the state's 5+4+2+2 school system was recommended for continuation by the education department.
A spokesman of the education department stated that the SEP has approved the use of the 5+4+2+2 pattern in schools. According to the policy, students must finish one year of pre-primary education, four years of primary school up to class 4, two years of secondary education, and two years of higher education.
In higher education, classes 11 and 12 have exams that are given at the semester level and are intended "to ease the transition from school to university in a phased manner... having a combination of multiple choice questions and descriptive ones" over the course of the two semesters. In relation to the three-language formula, it was claimed that "it will be introduced for students of classes 5 to 8 depending upon the availability of infrastructure."
The second language is any language other than the mother tongue based on the student's preference and the mother tongue is the mother tongue as the medium of instruction (Bengali in secondary schools, Nepali in Nepali schools and Hindi in Hindi language schools).
In addition, care is taken to introduce summer internship programs or projects for secondary and post-secondary students. For this exercise, it offers partnerships with media, book publishers and commercial companies. The policy proposes to conduct annual national achievement surveys to assess the achievements of children in grades 3, 5, 8 and 10. But the current policy already includes it. It further recommends that to address the skewed pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) in some districts, teachers should be required to work in rural areas of the state for five years. One of the recommendations is to base teacher promotion on performance indicators.
It stated that the trilingual formula would be "implemented for students in grades 5-8 subject to availability of infrastructure". If the first language is the mother tongue (Bengali in Bengali secondary schools, Nepali in Nepali, Hindi in Indian language schools), which is also determined by the linguistic and ethnic profile of the region, then the second language is any other language than the first language according to the student's preferences (including vulgar English). The third language can be "any other language chosen by the student, except the first and second languages.
To improve the research base of higher education institutions in the state, the policy proposes to create a separate research funding body, State Research Fund, under the West Bengal State Board of Higher Education (WBSCHE). WBSCHE is also tasked with identifying key research topics and recommending suitable funding opportunities for them.
Practice at the elementary level shows that Bengali as a subject can be introduced to students of other mediums from the 1st grade.
The state has already proposed a 4 1 formula for higher education where UG honors courses will be organized for four years instead of three years and PG courses for one year instead of two years.
Aveek Majumder, a member of the expert committee, told PTI, "We are happy that the government has accepted all our recommendations. To rationalize the school education sector and its smooth transition to higher education. We hope that our recommendations will help our students to be." on par with their counterparts at the national and global level." "
He said that the government also needs the recommendation of an expert committee formed at the earliest to implement the recommendations of the committee.
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