Facing excessive drop-out charge, Bihar to trace every scholar until UG stage

Concerned with the large drop-out charge amongst college youngsters, the Bihar Education Department is about to introduce a administration innovation system to trace each youngster until the undergraduate stage, together with a complete vary of technical {and professional} programs {that a} scholar might pursue after finishing the Class 12 state board examinations.
At current, Bihar has about 78,000 faculties for Class 1 to Class 12, with a complete enrollment of two.5 crore college students.
The Education Department has recognized 4 factors the place youngsters are likely to drop out from college — after Class 5 and Class 8, when a scholar has to alter from major to secondary and from secondary to larger secondary lessons, respectively; in addition to after the Class 10 and Class 12 boards.
Education Department Principal Secretary Sanjay Kumar instructed The Indian Express, “We had been alarmed on the drop in college students’ enrolment from Class 1 until Class 12. As per newest 2018-19 state authorities knowledge, we enrolled 24,03,526 college students in Class 1.
But this quantity dropped to fifteen,37,628 in Class 10, a dip of about 9 lakh — an enormous dip. At Class 12, this quantity comes down to six,31,379 college students.”
Kumar stated this quantity additional dropped to lower than 4 lakh college students after Class 12.
“We understand that a good number of students are moving towards professional courses after Class 12. But the drop-out rate after Class 5 and Class 8 is very worrisome. As these drop-outs are taking place during changeover of schools because of distance and other factors, we have now asked all district education officers to map secondary schools for Class 5 pass-outs and high school for Class 8 pass-outs. Now, our system will tell parents which nearest middle and high schools their wards would get admitted to,” Kumar stated.

The secretary stated the division will quickly put up a request for a young to trace each youngster.
“We are getting data from science and technology (a nodal department for engineering courses), medical, pharmacy, agriculture, nursing and other professional and technical courses. Once we have the management innovation system in place, we can track every child and work out our plans accordingly to minimise drop-outs through counselling and reaching out to parents,” he stated.