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Be passionate about teaching or face replacement, teachers told

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New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Teaching is an art and teachers cannot afford to be impassive purveyors of knowledge at the cost of students’ interest, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday.

Speaking here at the launch of the “Model curriculum for technology and management courses”, the minister said pedagogy was a matter of science and stated that many teachers he came across during his assessment on several platforms — whether in person or during their rendition of online classes, he found them robotic and impersonal.

“Teachers should have a passion for teaching. He or she must have a dream in his eyes of producing good students,” Javadekar said, adding that those who did not do so should be ready to be replaced as “the competition is intense”.

The minister said the quality of education in the country was not up to the mark and away from reality — the reason “a washing machine mechanic manages to earn more than a degree-holding engineer”.

He also mentioned that many teachers who would set question papers did not have the requisite training to do so.

Apart from launching the model curriculum for the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the two fields mentioned above, the ministry also operationalised its “Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) III Action Plan” meant for the educationally backwards states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar.

The minister emphasised that accreditation of the universities should not be “input-based but based on output” from now on.

In the upcoming budget, “people will get to know about the Prime Minister Scholarship” and many other “good things”, Javadekar said.

A decision was ratified by the Cabinet last year that 1,000 students would get Rs 75,000 a month scholarship named after the Prime Minister.

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As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon

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Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.

Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.

CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS

The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.

COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION

He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.

The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.

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