Stakeholders suggest State Education Policy must ensure holistic development of students

MADURAI

Steps to redress the issue of drug addiction that is prevalent among the student community was one of the major issues that was raised by many students and stakeholders during the second public hearing on the State Education Policy, said chairman of the panel Justice D. Murugesan here on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters after chairing the 12-member panel’s second zonal-level meeting organised to elicit suggestions, Justice Murugesan assured that the panel would give suitable recommendation to the State to tackle the issue of drug addiction.

Noting that the quality of teaching in government schools was far better now than in the past few years, he said that the need to further improve it was one among the commonly put forth opinions which would be considered.

Collector S. Aneesh Sekhar, members of the State Planning Commission and many government officials were present.

Students, parents, teachers, general public, educationists, volunteers etc., from six districts including Madurai, Theni, Sivaganga, Dindigul, Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar were also present..

A few students suggested installing smart classrooms and Atal Tinkering Lab citing that “it makes learning easy through vivid and appealing visuals,” while “application-based learning,” was suggested by S. Subanidhi Subramani of St. Britto Higher Secondary School, Madurai.

Many teachers suggested setting up of audio visual and language labs and to weave in aspects of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to make classrooms more lively and learning effective.