Schools told to gear up for next academic year

Schools told to gear up for next academic year

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Trichy:12.06.2021

The school education department has directed principals and administrative staff of government and government-aided schools to start preparatory works to commence the next academic year by visiting their schools from Monday.

A source from the department said, “as the state government has cancelled the Class XII public examination in the view of covid-19 pandemic, several procedures like calculating and preparing the certificates that are required to pursue higher education and related works need to be carried out.” “As admission for the next academic year is about to commence, school managements need to carry out the admission process and distribute notebooks and other government welfare schemes to the students. School campuses and classrooms need to be cleaned,” the source added.

Principals and administrative staff of all state-run and aided schools have been directed to visit their schools, following Covid-19 safety protocols, from next week to carry out these works, said the source.

“From next week, we will also start admitting students for Class XI as their classes are likely to commence from the third week of June based on government guidelines,” said M Ramakrishnan, chief educational officer.

A circular from the department said that if a school receives more applications for a particular group than the permitted class strength, then the school is allowed to increase the cap limit by 10-15% and students should be admitted in the group of their choice. If the number of applications for a particular group exceeds the additional 15% strength, then the student should be selected based on his/ her Class IX marks, the circular added.

“Earlier, the department had asked the school management to conduct an entrance examination if the number of applications exceeds the additional 15% strength and directed teachers to prepare a question paper with 30 questions. After objections raised from multiple corners, they had cancelled the entrance examination and asked the schools to admit based on Class IX marks,” said T Arulanantham, state auditor of Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Graduate Teachers’ Association.