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Notes • Our high school and intermediate standards are undoubtedly low, and in order to improve
them we should not only exact a higher standards in these examinations but also considerably
improve our teaching. We can not raise examinations standards unless we improve the
quality of teaching first.
• The school teachers are so ill paid that generally only those graduates who fail to enter any
other profession take to teaching as a last resort. Very few school teachers have a call for
or take pride in their profession. Secondary education can only improve if a large number
of first rate graduates become school masters. While university standards cannot improve
unless the quality of teaching in schools and intermediate colleges improves, it is for the
universities to provide a continuous supply of highly trained and efficient teachers for these
institutions.
• An urgent reform is the institution of vacation refresher courses for high school and
intermediate college teachers. At present neither students nor teachers utilize their vacation.
For most of them vacation is a period of want of occupation.
• The University Education Commission has emphasized that the teacher plays a vital role in
the education system; therefore, an adequate faculty with required qualifications are necessary
to discharge many types of duties in a university or in a college. The university Education
Commission recommended that proper care should be taken in the selection procedure of a
teacher for the appointment as a professor, reader, lecturer and an instructor as well as for
his or her salaries.
• The most important duty of a university is to maintain the highest standard of its teaching
and examinations. In order to improve the teaching standard, the following are some of the
recommendations that were made by the University Education Commission in 1948-1949:
• "The standard of admission to the university courses should correspond to that of the present
intermediate examination, i.e. after the completion of 12 years of study at a school and an
intermediate college;
• That in order to divert students to different vocations after 10 to 12 years of schooling, a
large number of occupational institutes be opened;
• That refresher courses be organized by the universities for high school and intermediate
college teachers;
• According to the recommendations of Radhakrishnan Commission, the general as well as
specific interest of the students should be taken care of when the courses will be designed
for the courses of the university level.
• The regulations for Master of Arts and Master of Science should be uniform in all universities
of India. The admission procedure as well as the process for enrolling in Ph.D. degree
should be arranged on an all India basis.
• The University Education Commission has made some recommendations regarding
professional education and has divided it into the five aspects of education as Agriculture
education, Commercial Education, Engineering and Technology, Legal Education and Medical
Education.
— Regarding Agriculture education, the Commission emphasized that agriculture education.

13.7 Keywords

• Appointment : A formal arrangement to meet or visit somebody at a particular time.
• Commission : An official group of people who have been given responsibility to control
something.
• Faculty : A department or group of related departments in a college or university.

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