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Kohima | May 27
The Nagaland Government Higher Secondary School Employees Association (NGHSSEA) held the third edition of the HSLC & HSSLC 2016 Result Analysis for the 41 GHSS in Nagaland at de Oriental Hotel, Kohima on May 27.
Reviewing the results and poor performance of some districts, Yitachu, Minister for School Education & SCERT viewed that education in Nagaland is in a transitional stage and needs proper assessment/analysis.
He was also critical of the practice of randomly establishing schools without proper analysis. Yitachu termed it wrong to view schools as a means of job creation and not as a provision of quality education to children. “Our thought is wrong. We as a department are wrong, the people are wrong, the village and its authorities are wrong. Because of this wrong notion, whether the school is run or not, nobody cares. It has destroyed us and our education system,” he said.
On bifurcation of the higher secondary from the elementary/secondary level, Yitachu stated that “these are processes that will continue in a given situation at a given point of time. But is it a requirement? I feel that it is not appropriate. We are yet to bring in proper footing of schools in the state.”
Yitachu further opined that at the present juncture, bifurcation without any analysis will be against the interest of the students.
Kelhikha Kenye, President of NGHSSEA said that the programme was intended to focus on better management of government schools to produce better results. The fragmented nature of the government schools set up which functions independently without proper monitoring and coordination is a key factor for the poor results. “Setting up of composite schools from class A to 10 or 12 under one establishment can bring quality,” Kenye said.
Wonthungo Tsopoe, Addl. Director (HoD), School Education meanwhile urged sincerity from all employees of the department. Being critical of teachers who lobby for transfers, Tsopoe reminded that the idea of being a teacher is to provide quality education to all. He further asserted that education should be just and provided equally. “The DSE is spending 9236 crores annually on teachers’ salary alone. The amount of investment needs to be recovered through our dedication,” stated Tsopoe.
The NGHSSEA meanwhile adopted a three point resolution affirming towards achieving quality education, not to indulge proxy, absenteeism etc, and to ensure responsibility and accountability at all levels.
Result analysis of 41 GHSS
Meanwhile, the result abstract of HSSLC and HSLC of the 41 Government Higher Secondary Schools revealed that Commerce stream secured 72.11 pass percentage, 63.64 percent for Science stream and 60.52 per cent in Arts stream. However the HSLC result in the GHSS reveals a very poor percent of 29.74 pass percentage. In the Commerce stream, out of 75 students that passed, 45 secured first division, 27 secured second division and only 3 attained third division.
During the event, Moasenla from Mayangnokcha GHSS Mokokchung was awarded for securing the 9th position in the HSSLC examinations. Moasenla was the only topper from the Government schools in 2016. Post Graduate Teacher, Visezu Thakro of Rüzhükhrie GHSS Kohima was also awarded. 30 out of 36 students of Thakro, a commerce teacher, got distinctions in his subject of Entrepreneurship.
In the second session, Nellayapan B, Principal, GHSS Bhandari presented a paper on the ‘Comparative Study on the Management of Schools in India’. He highlighted the concepts on educational management, nature of educational management, centrality of goals and objectives, duality of management.
Secondary cadres gripe over alleged interference by higher secondary section
DIMAPUR: Territorial issue appear to be one major factor for the demand of bifurcation by All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA) and Nagaland Secondary School Field Officers Federation (NSSFOF).
NSSFOF on Friday stated that there is always a tussle between the higher secondary and secondary cadres in the Education department, allegedly because of interference by higher secondary cadres in the working of the secondary section.
“There is no peace and happiness in our workplace as tussle continues. This kind of tussle is very ugly and detrimental to our students’ career as we often fail to attend to the problems of our students,” the press statement from NSSFOF stated.
The Federation alleged, “Cadres of higher secondary section were always trying to capture the secondary section by ways of directing, interfering and supervising the chapter as if the secondary cadre officers are not competent to handle their affairs.”
It also maintained that despite this, the secondary/elementary section have never interfered into the affairs of higher Secondary section.
The Federation further alleged that every time the secondary/elementary cadres go for agitation for non-fulfilment of their genuine demand, the Nagaland Government Higher Secondary School Employees’ Association (NGHSSEA) under the leadership of a “mere officer of 8 years in departmental service will always play dirty game/childish game to please the government and to sabotage and dislodge our demand.”
