Gender equality: Assam to introduce co-ed system throughout state-run colleges

Express News Service

GUWAHATI: The Assam authorities will introduce co-ed system throughout the state-run colleges.

The concept is to advertise gender equality and guarantee ladies discover a college at their doorsteps. “From now on, there won’t be any boys or girls-specific government schools in Assam. They will have both boys and girls. We are doing this to promote gender equality,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned on Friday.

He left it to the knowledge of some heritage ladies’ colleges to hitch or to not be part of this technique.

“If these heritage girls’ schools want to continue in the present form, we will allow them to do so. Otherwise, all other schools will be converted to co-ed schools,” Sarma mentioned.

He highlighted the hardship being confronted by lady college students in Guwahati because of the lack of co-ed colleges. “As girls do not get admission in the boys’ schools in Guwahati, a lot of them are forced to travel a long distance to pursue education from a girls’ school. There are only a few girls’ schools here although more than 50% of the candidates in the class X board examination are girls,” the CM mentioned.

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He mentioned the federal government was extra fascinated by implementing the co-ed system within the boys’ colleges. The authorities needs to confess the ladies within the boys’ colleges, that are aplenty, so the ladies get a college at their doorsteps, he mentioned.

The state authorities additionally determined to introduce twin medium of instruction (English and vernacular) for courses 6-12 within the state-run colleges.

Sarma was assured this is able to improve enrollment within the state-run colleges which have extra lecturers however much less numbers of scholars.

“We experimented with English medium in one school. We got a good response from parents. So, to begin with, we want to have 10 such schools in every district. They will have both English and Assamese as mediums,” the CM mentioned.

Another choice of the federal government is to have arithmetic and science courses in English from Class 3 in all state-run colleges. The authorities can even abolish the topic social research and introduce historical past and geography.

GUWAHATI: The Assam authorities will introduce co-ed system throughout the state-run colleges.

The concept is to advertise gender equality and guarantee ladies discover a college at their doorsteps. “From now on, there won’t be any boys or girls-specific government schools in Assam. They will have both boys and girls. We are doing this to promote gender equality,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned on Friday.

He left it to the knowledge of some heritage ladies’ colleges to hitch or to not be part of this technique.

“If these heritage girls’ schools want to continue in the present form, we will allow them to do so. Otherwise, all other schools will be converted to co-ed schools,” Sarma mentioned.

He highlighted the hardship being confronted by lady college students in Guwahati because of the lack of co-ed colleges. “As girls do not get admission in the boys’ schools in Guwahati, a lot of them are forced to travel a long distance to pursue education from a girls’ school. There are only a few girls’ schools here although more than 50% of the candidates in the class X board examination are girls,” the CM mentioned.

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He mentioned the federal government was extra fascinated by implementing the co-ed system within the boys’ colleges. The authorities needs to confess the ladies within the boys’ colleges, that are aplenty, so the ladies get a college at their doorsteps, he mentioned.

The state authorities additionally determined to introduce twin medium of instruction (English and vernacular) for courses 6-12 within the state-run colleges.

Sarma was assured this is able to improve enrollment within the state-run colleges which have extra lecturers however much less numbers of scholars.

“We experimented with English medium in one school. We got a good response from parents. So, to begin with, we want to have 10 such schools in every district. They will have both English and Assamese as mediums,” the CM mentioned.

Another choice of the federal government is to have arithmetic and science courses in English from Class 3 in all state-run colleges. The authorities can even abolish the topic social research and introduce historical past and geography.