<p>The board’s 58th meeting also unanimously endorsed the Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry’s proposal for integration of sports and physical education with the academic curriculum.<br /><br />A proposal of the Culture Ministry to introduce “10 great thinkers of modern India” in the school syllabus too won approval at the day-long meeting, chaired by Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.<br /><br /> He said the members underlined the need to arrest the rise of unfair practices in school education. The CABE members unanimous endorsed the need for a National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework (NVEQF) providing for a nationally recognised framework with vertical and horizontal mobility between general and vocational education. The Group of State Education Ministers, which has already been constituted, will develop a road map for the implementation of the proposed framework incorporating the requirements and concerns of all the states.<br /><br />While the ministry has already introduced a Bill in Parliament to control unfair practices in higher education, it was agreed at the meeting to initiate a similar measure in relation to school education, Sibal said.<br /><br />A CABE committee comprising ministers educationists and other had been formed to formulate the draft legislation. It would prepare a preliminary draft in about three months.<br /><br />Such a law was necessary to check malpractices, particularly in private schools, “essentially to prevent the rule of money power in this sector,” he said.<br /><br />Another CABE committee would be constituted to prepare a draft Bill seeking to extend the provisions of the right to free and compulsory education Act up to class X, Sibal said.<br /><br /> The draft legislation would be discussed with students, teachers, parents and community members.<br /><br />“It was felt that every child in the country – irrespective of gender, caste, class or community must have the right to at least 10 years of formal schooling,” the minister said.<br />Education ministers from the states attended the meeting. The state governments were urged to identify regional and local skills and develop curriculum content to feed into the vocational education framework. <br /><br /></p>
<p>The board’s 58th meeting also unanimously endorsed the Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry’s proposal for integration of sports and physical education with the academic curriculum.<br /><br />A proposal of the Culture Ministry to introduce “10 great thinkers of modern India” in the school syllabus too won approval at the day-long meeting, chaired by Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.<br /><br /> He said the members underlined the need to arrest the rise of unfair practices in school education. The CABE members unanimous endorsed the need for a National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework (NVEQF) providing for a nationally recognised framework with vertical and horizontal mobility between general and vocational education. The Group of State Education Ministers, which has already been constituted, will develop a road map for the implementation of the proposed framework incorporating the requirements and concerns of all the states.<br /><br />While the ministry has already introduced a Bill in Parliament to control unfair practices in higher education, it was agreed at the meeting to initiate a similar measure in relation to school education, Sibal said.<br /><br />A CABE committee comprising ministers educationists and other had been formed to formulate the draft legislation. It would prepare a preliminary draft in about three months.<br /><br />Such a law was necessary to check malpractices, particularly in private schools, “essentially to prevent the rule of money power in this sector,” he said.<br /><br />Another CABE committee would be constituted to prepare a draft Bill seeking to extend the provisions of the right to free and compulsory education Act up to class X, Sibal said.<br /><br /> The draft legislation would be discussed with students, teachers, parents and community members.<br /><br />“It was felt that every child in the country – irrespective of gender, caste, class or community must have the right to at least 10 years of formal schooling,” the minister said.<br />Education ministers from the states attended the meeting. The state governments were urged to identify regional and local skills and develop curriculum content to feed into the vocational education framework. <br /><br /></p>
