Students to pick subjects from different streams?
Can a student opt for subjects like physics, economics and Sanskrit together at Class 10 or under-graduation level?
Such multi-disciplinary subject combinations, which have been denied to students in most of the state boards and universities, could be a reality soon.
The HRD ministry wants to give students the flexibility of having multi-disciplinary subjects from streams of science, arts and commerce together at Class 11, 12 and graduation.
he move has been initiated by HRD minister Kapil Sibal who has been insisting on making education more student centric and promoting creativity.
The ministry has set up a ten-member panel, headed by S.C. Khuntia, joint secretary, department of school education and literacy, to suggest on allowing flexibility in subject combinations to students at senior secondary and graduation level.
CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi is the member convenor of the committee which will submit its report by September this year, a senior CBSE official said.
The matter was discussed at a meeting of vice-chancellors and school principals held here on January 27 this year. Students are able to study subjects of science, commerce and social science together at Class 12 level in certain boards like CBSE and ICSE. However, such combination is not allowed by the state boards.
Similarly, universities mainly allow students to either prefer science, commerce or arts streams at graduation level. Students are not able to pursue multi-disciplinary subjects together. The committee will also suggest mechanisms for comparing results of students under different boards. This step assumes significance as experts feel there is huge discrepancy in evaluation and examination systems of boards. There are allegations that competency level of students securing same percentage of marks in different states is not equal.
—PTI
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