Online education again: State government decides to stop offline education in schools and colleges in 8 metros till April 10
Chief Minister Rupani has made some important decisions touching the world of education at the high-level meeting in the context of the growing Koro transition. Giving details about these decisions, Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said that direct education in all primary, secondary and higher secondary schools in 8 Municipal Corporations i.e. Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar will be closed from March 19, 2021 to April 10 Will be done. Online education-home learning will be provided in the schools of these 8 Manpa areas as well as the first examination will be taken online in the secondary and higher secondary schools.
The first exam will be taken offline from March 19.Bhupendrasinh Chudasama further said that online examinations will be conducted in primary schools as per the existing schedule. Direct education work will continue for the students who will volunteer in secondary and higher secondary schools in all the other areas except these eight municipalities. Not only that, the first examination of Std. 9 to 12 will be taken offline from 19th March to 27th March as per its schedule. The current online home-learning education will continue.
The Education Minister further said that online / offline examinations will be conducted in the primary schools of areas other than 8 municipal areas as per the existing system and schedule. The meeting also decided that the existing system of direct education for volunteer students would remain the same. Regarding the decisions taken for the colleges and universities in the state, he said that the offline examination of graduate-graduate level scheduled from March 19, 2021 to April 10 has been postponed. The universities will announce a new timetable for these examinations.
While the university hostel will continue and students will be able to get education by staying in their hostel room. All the practicals of postgraduate-postgraduate examinations, offline classes and PG will continue in the state universities. This decision will apply to all public and private universities in the state.
Exactly one year later the school-colleges closed again.Educational work in schools-colleges, educational institutions was closed from March 16 last year. Since then, schools and colleges in Std 6 to 12 have been reopened in phases from January to February, but within a year, Coroni's condition has worsened and it has been decided to close schools and colleges in four metros again on March 18.
Earlier, Std 10 and 12 schools were opened from January 11, following which Std 10 and 12, PG and last year's college classes were started. Then in the state std. Schools for 9th and 11th were started on 1st February as well as classes for standard 9th to 12th and competitive examinations were allowed. After the reopening of schools and colleges from 9 to 12, the state government's education department announced the resumption of classroom education for first-year students in colleges from February 8.
In primary school where children study together and have fun together, there is a growing fear among parents that if one of them shows symptoms of corona, the other may also be infected. But now less than 30 per cent students come to school, while others are taking online education at home.
At present, examinations for students of Std. 3 to 8 are going on, but most of the children are taking the exams at home instead of coming to school. Even parents are afraid to send their children to school because of the situation; The board exams are starting from May 4, so some rules have been made by the education department to keep the students away from the transition to corona.
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If at the time of board examination of standard 10 and 12, if any student finds fever, cold, cough and temperature high, that student will be kept in a separate room, so that there is no danger of transition in any other student. However, in view of the current situation, some new rules may be implemented by the Board of Education at the time of examination.
