CENTRAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EDUCATION
 

2.1 The Central Advisory Board of Education met in New Delhi on the 13th and 14th of September, 1988. Its recommendations are given below:

Elementary Education

- Continuation of funding of NPE schemes by the Central Government during the Eighth Plan as well, particularly because implementations started only towards the end of the third year of the Seventh Plan;

- Micro-level planning with a view to involving the community in the process of educational planning;

- Evolving a meaningful monitoring system covering both formal and non-formal streams of education;

Secondary Education

- Setting up a Special Group under CABE on Value Education;

- Creating management structure to streamline vocational education and to make vocational courses relevant from the point of view job opportunities;

- Vigorous implementation of science education programmes.

Higher Education

- Establishing State Councils of Higher Education to bring about integrated planning and coordination with the University Grants Commission;

- Finalisation of the guidelines by UGC for regular and systematic performance appraisal of teachers as proposed in NPE and to make them available to State Government and Universities;

- Restraining the establishment of new colleges and ensuring fulfilment of the terms and conditions recommended by UGC for affiliation of colleges.

Adult Education

- Implementation of the Mass Campaign for National Literacy already inaugurated by the Prime Minister in May, 1988, involving:

i) Student community (inclusive of those who are members of the NSS, NCC, etc.);

ii) School teachers; and

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iii) Village community.

- Suggesting measures for promoting learning through the local spoken languages;

- Streamlining administration;

- Ensuring stability of tenure for adult education official functionaries;

- Developing special strategies for women learners including special literacy materials designed for their use;

- Introducing participative evaluation of attainments by adult learners.

Access to Education for Weaker Sections

- Giving priority to women's access to education and retention of girls in schools;

- Provision of special support services in the form of child care services in every village so as to enable girls leave their siblings while they attend school;

- Taking special measures to recruit women teachers;

- Providing housing to village school teachers;

- Appointment of a woman teacher in every double-teacher school;

- Provision of residential schools for girls, particularly those belonging to SCs and STs;

- Providing retention scholarships for girls who maintain 70% attendance;

- Relaxation of yardstick for setting up primary schools in hilly areas with concentration of tribal population;

- Finalisation of the curriculum and adequate training of teachers and medium of instruction. It was emphasised that while educating the tribal people their rich cultural identity and heritage should be retained.

- Adoption of the Foster Parent Scheme which has been very successful in Maharashtra as a national scheme on a voluntary basis and without any Government funding being involved.

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Technical Education

- Inclusion in research activities of fundamental/technological research, education research and research into the system and its operation;

- Re-establishment of linkage between educational institutions and specialised R&D organisations;

- Giving incentives for promoting research activities in technical institutions;

- Coordination of research activities on all-India basis;

- Setting up of a National Research Council to coordinate R&D in all sectors of higher education;

- Providing an overall review of research by monitoring its progress through a proper information base;

- Laying down policies and priorities in research;

- Suggesting means for mobilisation of larger funds for research;

- Providing funding guidelines to participating agencies;

- Setting up a Working Group to work out the organisational structure and operational mechanism.

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