Expressing concern over poor performance of government schools, particularly high school and below in Nagaland, state Minister for school education and SCERT Yitachu today called upon teachers to concentrate in imparting quality education to students.
Results of Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) declared recently have shown better performance of government schools, but the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) results were very bad with 30 out of the 202 government schools appearing for exams having nil pass percentage, he said.
Addressing the HSLC and HSSLC, 2016 result analysis-cum-one day seminar for 41 government higher secondary schools (GHSS) in the state today, Yitachu said as employees of the school education department, concern should be towards finding the problem and solving it.
"Spending 24 per cent of the total budget allocation of the state on school education department does not commensurate with the results produced by the government schools," he said.
He cautioned that the government would not hesitate to reshuffle teachers failing to perform.
Maintaining that the school education department was presently in transitional period, he said random opening of GHSS, upgrading of middle to high and primary to middle schools without proper consideration has been a drawback in the performance of government schools.
He said schools should be opened not to provide employment opportunities to the educated unemployed, but to provide quality education to the rural people.
Calling upon the teachers to rededicate themselves in the service, Yitachu said "Teachers should reach out to the students in remote areas, while efforts should also be made not to have dropouts, thereby making the society prosperous.
President of Nagaland Government Higher Secondary School Employees Association, Kelhika Kenye said the association aspires to make government schools, specially GHSS, centres for delivering excellence in the performance of students.
He said government schools face structural problems like fragmented schools for primary, middle, high and higher secondary educations and suggested the state government should explore the feasibility of setting up composite schools from primary to higher secondary if quality education and excellent performance in the HSLC and HSSLC was to be achieved.
