Academic councils to be revived

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsIn a bid to ensure regular exchange of ideas among the teaching community, the Education Department has given orders to the secretaries of all the school academic councils in the district to revive their operations and conduct regular meetings.“The various academic councils was to be a meeting point for teachers from different schools in the district dealing with a particular subject. At the council meetings the teachers would be able to exchange ideas, teaching methodology and also discuss issues on getting to the students. But though there are a number of these councils each with a secretary and other nominated members in the district, most of them are not functioning. Meetings are held very rarely, if not at all. It is in this context that we have given orders to the councils to conduct regular meetings if not once in a month, at least once in a quarter,” said Deputy Director of  Education, Ernakulam, M D Murali.The onus of calling in the meetings falls on the secretaries of the academic councils concerned.  The various academic councils include the District Science Council, the District Social Science Council, the District Mathematics Council and the District Sanskrit Council among others.STUDENT CLUBSIn the case of students associations too the district administration is looking at reforms especially in the school clubs. One of the major concerns here is that is the large number of these clubs.“A large number of these clubs have come up in school, with many of them having almost the same functions. For instance there are schools which have an environment club and an eco club. Moreover, many clubs have their agendas overlapping with each other. For instance, both  health and the environment clubs are looking at awareness on hygiene, waste management and healthy lifestyle. Keeping this in mind we are looking at clubbing some of them to make the functioning more efficient,” said the DDE.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST 
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