New admission policy by Oct end in Karnataka !

New admission policy by Oct end in Karnataka
BANGALORE : A comprehensive admission policy for private aided and unaided institutions, from pre-nursery to pre-university levels, will be in place in the State from the next academic year.

Faced with criticism that the government had failed to crack the whip on curbing donation menace and regulating the admission process in private institutions, a high level six-member committee headed by the Commissioner of Public Instruction has been constituted to recommend guidelines for the policy.

The terms of reference for the committee issued a couple of days ago gives sufficient hints that the government is keen on banning interviews with children and parents for admission purposes.

Besides, the State policy will dwell on pre-admission procedures to be followed by institutions, issue of applications, calender of events. Step-by-step guidelines will be prepared which need to be followed by private educational institutions during admission time. In fact, the State has directed the committee to study the Delhi model of admissions (recommended by the Ganguly Committee) which includes constitution of school-wise committees to monitor admission process, while framing the norms.

The committee headed by CBSE Chairman Ashok Ganguly had recommended admission based on a 100-point formula. Other recommendations include uniform time schedules for nursery admission.

The preamble to the note on setting up the six-member committee states that admission to private institutions had become a “social problem”.Some elite schools were using the demand for admission in their institutions as a “weapon” for fleecing students and parents.

Private schools, especially in urban areas, were considered “elite” resulting in further widening the divide in imparting quality education to all, the note said. It also points out that though the Karnataka Education Institution (Classification, Regulation and Prescription of Curricula etc) Rules 1995 does stipulate several regulations related to admission in private institutions, it has not be implemented effectively.

The members of the committee include K S Krishna Iyer, secretary, Associated Managements of Schools in Karnataka, G Chandrashekar, former director, education department, Dr Janavi, secretary, Karnataka Regional Education Commission and Gururaj Jamakandi, lecturer, K E Board Pre-University College, Dharwad. The Director, Primary and Secondary Education is the member-secretary.

IN THE OFFING

*Eliminating interviews with children and parents during admission time
*Norms for admission procedure, sale of applications, calendar of events
*Committee to study the Delhi model

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