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Unit 5: Indian Education Commission (1964-66)

5.5 Nomenclature Recommended for Educational Institutions by Notes
Commission

Realizing the need for a uniform system of nomenclatures, the Commission recommends that
it should be evolved by the government of India, in consultation with the State Governments.
Pending the finalization of such a system, it has used the following nomenclatures throughout
the report :
5.5.1 School Education

(i) Pre-primary Education: Which includes :
(a) Pre-primary, (b) Pre-basic (c) Kindergarten (d) Montessorie etc.,
(ii) Primary Education (Classes I-VII or I-VIII): Which includes:
(a) Lower Primary Classes (I - IV or I-V): (i) Primary in some State (e.g., Punjab) (ii)
Lower Primary in some States (e.g., Gujrat) (iii) Junior Basic, and (iv) Lower
Elementary in some State (e.g., Madras).
(b) Higher Primary Classes (V -VII or VI - VIII): (i) Middle in some State (e.g., Punjab),
(ii) Junior higher scho6f'(e.g., U.P., (iii) Upper Primary in some States (e.g., Gujarat).
(iv) Senior Basic, (v) Higher elementary in some States (e.g., Madras).
(iii) Secondary Education (Classes VIII-XIII or IX-X)
High school; Higher Secondary school : Which includes :
(a) Lower Secondary Education (Classes VIII-X or IX-X) : High School.
(b) Higher Secondary Education (Classes XI-XII).: (i) This will include class XI or P. U.
C. in some States (e.g., Rajasthan), (i) It will include junior colleges in Kerala, (iii) It
will include Intermediate class in U.P. (iv) It will also include terms like pre-
professional, pre-medical and pre-engineering.
5.5.2 Higher Education

(i) Professional Degrees: All degrees which lead to a professional qualification (e.g., M.A.,
M.Sc., M.Com., B.E., M.B.B.S. B.T., LL.B., B.Sc Ag. etc).
(ii) General Degrees: All degrees other than professional ones.
(iii) Under-graduate: All courses leading to the first degree.
(iv) Post-graduate: All courses beyond the first degree (excluding certain first degrees given
after the first degree, e.g., B. Ed.)
(v) First Level of Education: This will include pre-school and primary education
5.6 National Reconstruction and Education

5.6.1 Major Problems
The following are the major problem:
(i) To produce more food-grains for solving the food problem in order to make the country
self-dependent for food.
(ii) To achieve social and political unity.
(iii) To remove unemployment problem through economic progress,
(iv) Provincialism, regionalism and religion should not be given any place in politics. The
political standard should be raised.
5.6.2 Achievement of National Goals
(i) Production should be increased in each field through education.
(ii) The things of daily necessities, should be produced through education. Social and political
unity should be achieved through education.

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