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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (i) to prepare a student for university.
(ii) to become really terminal and prepare a student for some vocation in life.
Therefore, realising hat the total period of educational course and the duration of its different
stages have a direct bearing on the quality of education imparted for achieving the goal, the
Education Commission recommended :
(i) a broadly uniform pattern of education.
(ii) extension in the period of schooling to bring about a general rise in the standard of
attainment, and
(iii) vocationalisation of education.
(3) National Policy Statement (1986) : On the basis of recommendation of the Education
Commisssion the Government formulated a National Policy Statement on Education in
1968, which said it was convinced that a “radical reconstruction of education on the broad
lines recommended by the Education Commission is essential for economic and cultural
development of the country, for national integration and for realising the idea of a socialistic
pattern of society.”
(4) The Conference of Education Secretaries and Directors of Public Instruction : Held on
September 15 and 16,1972 it passed the following resolutions on the Adoption of Uniform
Pattern of School and College Classes (10 + 2 + 3) :
(i) Uniform Pattern : A uniform of education 15 years duration leading to the first degree
should be adopted by all Sates.
(ii) Co-ordination : There should be close co-ordination between the vocational courses
attached to the higher secondary stage, the Industrial Training Institutes and the
Polytechnics. Courses selected should have close affinity to the skills and services in
demand in the locality. This will involve manpower studies and production centres as
well as financing of the skilled personnel on co-operation or institutional pattern for self-
employment or employment in production centres.
(iii) Vocationalisation : The scheme of vocationalisation of education as well as work experience
deserves highest priority in the Plan and should be assisted fully.
(iv) Vocational Courses : Vocational courses prescribed in institution would need constant
review and replacement as technology materials and demand change. They would have
to keep pace with development of local industrials also particularly the small-scale, college
and consumer industries.
(5) The National Policy on Education 1986 : It also favoured the adoption of (10 + 2 + 3) system.
Charactertistics of New Guidance
The following are the main trends :
1. Common 10-year schooling.
2. 12 years of schooling in place of 11 which was the usual school pattern.
3. After 12 years of schooling the first degree cause is of these years duration.
4. The first university degree is obtained after 15 years of study.
5. A selective approach in upgrading the existing higher secondary schools.
6. Compulsory teaching of Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Trade or Craft, Moral
Educational in classes IX and X.
7. To levels of courses in various subjects-advanced level and ordinary.
8. Taking care of individual differences of students by providing for grouping of students
based on their attainment in different subject. It will be possible to have a student doing
advanced level work in one subject and ordinary level work in another.

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