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  • CBSE to Offer Four New Vocational Subjects from Next Year.

    New Delhi, Nov 03 : Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, is likely to launch four new vocational subjects from next year, i.e. 2012. The Board has taken the step to boost vocational education and make it more scientific and market oriented.

    As per sources, the subjects to be taught from class XI onwards are logistics management, retail management, paramedic, and design. All these subjects/courses will be modular and credit based. Moreover, the certificates which will be awarded would also indicate the specific skill sets that the students acquire.

    According to CBSE, these new courses will be based on the number of hours and divided over specific modules with each module carrying specific credits. In addition, each module will offer a specific skill set so that even if out of seven modules a student completes four, he/she will have credits for those modules and would have acquired certain skill sets.

    While talking about the developments, CBSE Chairman, Vineet Joshi, said that the basic idea behind drafting the courses credit based is to make them scientific. The number of hours for the vocational courses can be credited which would help in case a student wants to shift to another course, he said.

    Furthermore, he said that the new courses will be based on the standards set by the National Skill Development Corporation which is now working on national occupational standards in various areas, which means that it specifies on jobs and the necessary corresponding skill sets required.

    Later, he also added that the credits will help the students if they opt for higher studies to institutions where credit system is accepted and equivalent credits can be measured. In addition, sources from the Ministry for Human Resource Development informed that CBSE will also launch a vocational course in IT from class IX as a pilot project in Haryana from 2012.

  • National entrance test for MBBS from 2012-13.

    Students aspiring for MBBS seats will not take the EAMCET route but write the National Entrance and Eligibility Test by Medical Council of India (MCI) from next year.

    The test will be conducted at the national level by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on behalf of MCI but the counselling and selection would be done by the State government, Director of Medical Education P. Sampath Kumar told The Hindu.

    He said the MCI was keen to do the selection of candidates also after the test, but the State government retained the initiative for its own reasons. The decision to join the national test was taken in view of the insistence by MCI that there be uniform standards of testing for admissions instead of each State having its own question papers. Nevertheless, there would be both State and national rankings.

    About 65,000 students appeared for medicine stream of EAMCET last year for 4,300 seats in 12 government and 20 private medical colleges in the State. An all-party meeting convened by the government a few months ago to discuss whether the State could join the national pool for allocation of seats did not find favour with the parties.

    A.P. and Jammu & Kashmir are the only States which were exempted from joining the Central pool by a Presidential order. The State had to contribute 15 per cent of the seats to outsiders but its own students would have got an additional 1,500 seats at the national level if it had joined the scheme, Dr. Sampath Kumar said.

    He added that the intake of MBBS seats was likely to go up by 1,000 next year with the addition of 50 seats each in government sector and opening of a few new private medical colleges. Single umbrella

    The decision to join the national test was also hinted at by Health Minister D.L. Ravindra Reddy earlier in the day.

    He parried a question by media persons when asked if a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the MCI directive to States to come under a single umbrella was a hindrance.

    Source : The Hindu

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