Secondary Education – The Challenges Ahead

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Edited by Marmar Mukhopadhyay

Educational development in India is characterized by swinging emphasis between primary and higher education; secondary education has been a mute witness to the gross neglect. Time has come to recognize the seminal importance of secondary education that is expected to absorb the push due to success in elementary education, and pull from higher education for enhancing the current rate of enrolment of only 6% of the concerned age group.

This book is primarily the outcome of the national seminar on Focus: Secondary Education organized by NIEPA, to draw attention of the policy makers and planners in education towards secondary education. The issue was important enough to involve the Minister for Human Resource Development, Member (Education) of Planning Commission, Union Education Secretary, Heads of major national institutions, and others. It is this historic conference where the Union Minister of Human Resource Development announced the government intention of universalisation of secondary education by 2015, which drew national attention in the debates in the Parliament.

The book has been organized into a few thematic areas dealing with issues in perspectives of development in secondary education, management of quality, school-based management and administrative reforms, financing of secondary education, and capacity building. Each section contains number of chapters contributed by various authors. Importantly, each section is led by a chapter that was specially commissioned to an eminent educationist and specialist in the concerned area. Such contributions have been topped by a chapter on secondary education: challenges ahead by the editor.

The book, indeed, reflects the collective wisdom of the country so far as secondary education is concerned. It does not stop at the analysis of the current situation; it takes a well calculated flight into the future with the primary objective of drawing attention of the educational planners, policymakers and administrators to be better prepared for the massive developments that will shortly be knocking at the doors of secondary education, or risk the nation.

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