<p>The ICT@Schools project will be introduced at all levels — primary, middle and high schools besides higher secondary classes — wherein teachers will have added options of new methods of teaching through digitised texts downloaded in class from a centralised computer, Jayalalitha announced in the Assembly, making a suo motu statement.<br /><br />Under this ambitious project, students will also have the benefit of some of the best lectures in each subject through a satellite-based system, Jayalalitha said even as she came out with a nearly Rs 1,500 crore package for a host of initiatives to radically tone up the school education system in Tamil Nadu up to the Plus Two level.<br /><br />This includes appointment of 13,300 school teachers at various levels this academic year itself, another 16,549 part-time teachers to impart vocational skills and stimulate co-curricular activities in children. <br /><br />This plan also include massive infrastructure up-gradation across all schools like more class rooms, clean water and toilets, induction of adequate conservancy staff to ensure a clean environment around schools and even provision of school bags, geometry boxes and colour crayons for rural kids, Jayalalitha disclosed.<br /><br />To reduce the textbooks burden on children, a trimester system with a continuous internal assessment will be introduced from the next academic year in schools, the chief minister said. <br /><br />Both Central and state funds will be utilised for this composite new mega-package for schools. <br /></p>
<p>The ICT@Schools project will be introduced at all levels — primary, middle and high schools besides higher secondary classes — wherein teachers will have added options of new methods of teaching through digitised texts downloaded in class from a centralised computer, Jayalalitha announced in the Assembly, making a suo motu statement.<br /><br />Under this ambitious project, students will also have the benefit of some of the best lectures in each subject through a satellite-based system, Jayalalitha said even as she came out with a nearly Rs 1,500 crore package for a host of initiatives to radically tone up the school education system in Tamil Nadu up to the Plus Two level.<br /><br />This includes appointment of 13,300 school teachers at various levels this academic year itself, another 16,549 part-time teachers to impart vocational skills and stimulate co-curricular activities in children. <br /><br />This plan also include massive infrastructure up-gradation across all schools like more class rooms, clean water and toilets, induction of adequate conservancy staff to ensure a clean environment around schools and even provision of school bags, geometry boxes and colour crayons for rural kids, Jayalalitha disclosed.<br /><br />To reduce the textbooks burden on children, a trimester system with a continuous internal assessment will be introduced from the next academic year in schools, the chief minister said. <br /><br />Both Central and state funds will be utilised for this composite new mega-package for schools. <br /></p>
