Dimapur, Dec. 17 (EMN): The government has provided for ‘enough infrastructures’ and all mechanisms are in place in the education sector. However, the outcome in terms of quality education as shown by a national survey is not very positive, an education official said during a training programme for teachers in Dimapur.
A four-day integrated training programme for teachers began at the Don Bosco Institute of Development and Learning, on December 17 in Dimapur.
The government publicity agency the department of Information and Public Relations (IPR) gave updates on Tuesday informing about the programme.
The event is stated to be of the national initiative for school heads and teachers’ holistic advancement or ‘Nishtha.’ It was conducted for key resource persons and state resource persons of Nagaland, updates stated.
The director of the Nagaland State Council of Educational Research & Training, T Sekhose, said the Nishtha is a national flagship programme initiated by the ministry of Human Resource Development and the NCERT. He said that the national curriculum framework of 2005 has rightly pointed out that in-service teachers’ training cannot be an event but has to be a process where skill, knowledge and other requirements that a teacher require need to be constant.
Highlighting the importance of an integrated approach, the official said that the government of India had recognised the importance of all the stakeholders such as teachers, functionaries, principals and people who are instrumental in ushering in quality education.
Speaking about access to education in Nagaland, Sekhose said that the government has provided ‘enough infrastructures’ and in spite of having all mechanisms put in place, the outcome in terms of quality education shown by a national survey were not very positive, the IPR stated.
The official also reminded the gathering that they have been mandated for an important assignment, and consciously selected to be the resource persons for the initiative and soon be assigned to functions as resource persons at different levels throughout the state to train a total population of seventeen thousand teachers in the state. The official urged the gathering to give utmost commitment, sincerity and dedication.
Prof. Jyotsna Tiwari of the department of Education at the Institute of Aesthetic in New Delhi, highlighted the training module to the gathering. The official stated that the programme aims to train 42 lakh teachers from across the country so that they have the understanding of what are being initiated and required for schools and children.