Punjab News

Actual difficulty not being addressed

All politicians regardless of their social gathering affiliation, when come to energy, difficulty statements or take steps simply to seize headlines in newspapers. Holding this in thoughts the Punjab Authorities has despatched 36 principals of presidency faculty to Singapore for skilled coaching. There isn’t any dearth of professionally-trained workers for faculties. The principle drawback is the lacking intent of spending cash on infrastructure and filling vacancies of lecturers. Once in a while, we come throughout information that lecturers have been on strike as their salaries weren’t launched. To start with of the 12 months there have been 549 vacancies of principals within the faculties and when 189 lecturers have been promoted for the posts of principals, no orders have been issued for months. Simply think about an establishment working with out its head. Within the gentle of above circumstances, such initiatives will be unable to resolve issues.

Naresh Johar

QUESTION

The primary ‘Sarkar-Kisan Milni’ (government-farmer interplay) was held at Punjab Agriculture College to border insurance policies as per farmers’ wants. Will such strikes by the federal government assist in enhancing coverage implementation in agri sector?

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Will enhance skilled expertise

Sending authorities faculty principals to Singapore for coaching will enhance their skilled expertise to some extent. Later, they’ll share their experiences with their colleagues and college students to impart the information they’ve gained. It’s a good step, however rather more is required to be finished other than this to enhance the situation of presidency faculties. Many authorities faculties lack fundamental services, inconveniencing each lecturers and college students. These points should be prioritised in order to make sure a superb training system is developed for the intense way forward for our nation.

Jatinderpal Singh Batth

Step would enhance training

Definitely the step would assist enhance the training system within the state. It’s because it’s for the primary time within the historical past of the state that principals have been despatched to Singapore for skilled coaching. The coaching supplied to them abroad would inculcate in them an progressive mindset. They will surely get profit from the skilled coaching. On returning again, they are going to be in a greater place to carry out their duties. It’s actually useful for the way forward for faculties in addition to its principals.

Sanjay Chawla

Welcome initiative, implementation should

The transfer by Punjab CM is certainly a superb resolution. It’s a well-known indisputable fact that Singapore’s training system is taken into account the most effective techniques on the planet. The foremost distinction within the Indian and Singapore’s training system is creativity. The initiative by the federal government would show to be constructive, provided that issues learnt from Singapore’s training system are literally utilized on Indian training system.

Sukhmeet Kaur

Lecturers will change into efficient and environment friendly

I admire the choice taken by the Punjab Authorities to ship 36 principals to Singapore for coaching. It’ll improve the training degree within the state. The lecturers will get a specialised coaching and can be capable to know methods to deal with, handle, and resolve the issues successfully and effectively. This may sharpen their skilled expertise. On offering this coaching to all of the principals, there might be an enormous transformation in state’’s training system. Furthermore, because the lecturers are the nation builders who can uplift the extent of training, their instructing expertise could be upgraded by offering high quality coaching to them. It’ll additionally assist in additional up scaling the experience {and professional} means of the lecturers to impart a top quality training to college students. This may show to be a milestone for remodeling the training system within the state. Secondly, college students can even get the advantage of the standard training being supplied to them. So, this can be a revolutionary step for remodeling the state’s training system fully. Punjab will quickly change into a entrance runner state within the discipline of training.

Jasleen Kaur

Consistent with New Edu Coverage

Sending lecturers to different establishments for coaching bodes properly with the New Training Coverage. Sending principals to Singapore to attend a five-day seminar is an academic initiative, which goals at complety remodeling our training system. Such exposures have the potential to sharpen the skilled expertise. As per the media experiences, it was the primary batch of lecturers and the programme will proceed. There have been complaints relating to the choice process, however that as much as the administration to deal with. The concept of visiting overseas faculties was lengthy overdue. In reality, trainer and pupil change programmes have a really excessive instructional in addition to cultural worth. College students additionally needs to be proven some mannequin faculties to be able to encourage them to alter their attitudes in the direction of classroom and faculty behaviour. Faculties will need to have full energy of lecturers and non- instructing workers and noon meals.

Mohan Singh

Faculty heads will get int’l publicity

Lecturers are the actual nation builders, and it’s of utmost significance that their instructing expertise are upgraded by guaranteeing high quality coaching of worldwide requirements. With this goal, the Punjab Authorities has taken an inspiring initiative to remodel the training system within the state. Initially, a batch of 36 principals of presidency faculties has been despatched to Singapore for skilled coaching. Singapore’s training system is much better than ours. An unlimited community of presidency faculties exists in Punjab to supply training at inexpensive value, however they urgently require enchancment to change into state-of-art centres for studying. On this period of subtle know-how, when synthetic intelligence is quickly coming into in each house of our life, there’s a dire want to supply high quality training to our kids in order that they continue to be appropriate with worldwide requirements. Thus to revamp the training processes, conventional methods adopted by our instructing college require strong reorientation. Within the first place, the coaching of lecturers in newest methods and expertise is paramount in order that they’re able to impart high quality training to their pupils. The present initiative of the Punjab authorities to ship lecturers and heads of choose authorities faculties overseas is considerable. The abroad publicity will assist to encourage their spirits, enhance acumen to amass greater degree of proficiency in superior instructing methods. Not solely the transfer will present a chance for lecturers to pay attention to the weaknesses in our prevailing methodology, it should concurrently function a catalyst in the direction of potential enchancment. For the mission to be wholly transformative, nonetheless, it ought to get an impetus on wider perspective to duplicate improvements and know-how within the discipline of studying.

Nirmaljit Singh Chatrath

Journey is A waste of taxpayers’ cash

The logic to ship principals to overseas nation (Singapore) is senseless, and it’s nothing greater than a political gimmick. What are these skilled educationists going to study from the folks of the nation, which is even not equal to at least one district of Punjab? The academic infrastructure, tradition and college students’ calibre of Singapore is solely completely different than ours. It looks like a vacation journey for just a few chosen and favorite lot on the taxpayers’ cash, which ought to have been ideally spent on our faculties, lecturers or enchancment of infrastructure in order that the standard of training could possibly be raised. One fails to know that who has misled the Chief Minister or ministers on this idea of adopting different nations’ training system. Our nation is filled with eminent educationists and students. The federal government is creating a whole lot of controversy and confusion of their insurance policies, planning and administration. It might be higher if the usual of instructing and faculties’ infrastructure is improved, which is able to consequently have a optimistic affect on the standard training.

Col GS Bhullar

Coaching will enhance requirements

Undoubtedly, it should. For a system to enhance three issues are required — motivation, good management qualities and methods. Though our worthy principals should be having all these qualities, the coaching in Singapore will rekindle the spark in them which normally dies once we work in a authorities system. In our training system, the bulk view of the stakeholders, together with senior directors, lecturers, college students and fogeys, is that nothing could possibly be finished to enhance the system. So, it turns into very tough for the chief (Principal) to maneuver issues in proper path. This coaching will encourage them to cope with reluctant seniors, crew up with lecturers via new management expertise and implement progressive instructing and studying methods for higher studying outcomes. Furthermore, they are going to be answerable additionally for the result-oriented implementation of the coaching. Though 36 is a really small quantity, maintaining in thoughts the three,600 secondary and senior secondary faculties in Punjab, it’s hoped that those that received the coaching would make their faculties a mannequin for others to observe. Their experience needs to be utilized by the division to coach the opposite heads of colleges additionally.

Kulwinder Kaur

Have doubts about S’pore’s edu system

How the 36 authorities faculty principals, who’ve despatched to Singapore for skilled coaching, will assist enhance the training system in Punjab is a moot level. Of all of the locations, why was Singapore zeroed in on by the federal government? What was the choice standards and must ship these ideas to a overseas nation? All these questions might need prompted the Governor to query arbitrary collection of ideas for Singapore coaching. Little doubt the healthcare of Singapore is value emulating, however it will probably’t be stated so about its training system. Within the early Nineteen Eighties, my eldest brother, an English trainer in a college in Jalandhar, was despatched to the College of Lancaster for coaching of lecturers of English in Punjab below Colombo plan. After his return, he was shifted to Lecturers Coaching Institute in Jalandhar itself. Many English lecturers in authorities faculties have been despatched to the coaching institute to lean new instructing methods and purchase new expertise. Will the identical occur to the principals who’ve been despatched to Singapore? Their go to will matter solely once they impart their studying to different lecturers. In any other case will probably be one more train in futility and burden on exchequer. Let’s hope it’s not a political gimmick, and a step in the suitable path.

Dr JS Wadhwa

An progressive step to remodel edu system

The Punjab Authorities’s resolution of sending 36 faculty principals to Singapore for skilled coaching is an progressive step taken for the aim of upscaling instructing expertise {and professional} know-how within the discipline of training. The step is taken to remodel the training system for making it extra appropriate within the mission of constructing state affluent as promised by AAP. Presently, Singapore is worldwide identified for its glorious training system largely liable for their social and financial growth. Nevertheless, the train needs to be correctly adopted up to make sure its affect and desired outcomes on the bottom.

Jagdish Chander

Onus is on faculty principals

Following within the footsteps of the AAP dispensation in Delhi, the Punjab Authorities’s resolution to ship 36 principals to Singapore to take part in knowledgeable lecturers’ coaching seminar (February 6-10) is welcome. That is consistent with the pre-poll promise of AAP within the run-up to the Meeting elections final 12 months to deliver reforms within the ailing training sector, which was hard-hit within the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. The transfer will allow these faculty heads to sharpen their instructing and organisational expertise. When they are going to share their experiences with their colleagues and college students, it’s anticipated to assist in imparting high quality training. But when they aren’t critical in studying new training methods and deal with the tour as mere picnic, it should defeat the very goal of this noble initiative. Furthermore, it should fail to win public favour and is more likely to be handled as a political gimmick by the ruling AAP dispensation for political mileage. To make sure that its efforts bear fruit, the authorities ought to improve budgetary allocation to the training sector, make up for the prevailing infrastructural inadequacy, recruit common certified instructing and non-teaching workers, settle for their pending calls for, and, above all, control the functioning of the enlisted 117 faculties.

DS Kang

Must concentrate on faculties in dire straits

Throughout its electoral marketing campaign within the final Meeting elections, the Aam Adami Get together gave a assure to remodel the state’s training sector. Sending faculty principals for skilled coaching in Singapore will expose them to new instructing practices, management expertise, creation of teaching-learning supplies and audio-visual know-how. If correctly adopted, the most recent methods within the training sector will make the state frontrunner within the discipline. However sadly, it has began an unsavoury controversy between the Governor and the Chief Minister relating to the choice criterion of the principals despatched overseas. After dealing with the identical ordeal in Delhi, the Kejriwal-led AAP authorities has already despatched 1,000 principals overseas. It has made some main developments within the capital’s training sector and introduced a praiseworthy transformation in authorities faculties. The CM has additionally filed a case within the apex courtroom towards the Delhi L-G for stopping authorities faculty lecturers from going to Finland. Doesn’t stopping nation-builders to hone their skilled expertise in overseas establishments quantity to political harakiri? Equally, Bhagwant Mann is dedicated to offering international-standard training system in Punjab. At a time when his dispensation has upgraded some authorities faculties into ‘Faculties of Eminence’, it’s crucial to deal with many faculties throughout Punjab that are in a dire state of affairs for the previous a number of years. Doing away the current scarcity of principals, lecturers and different workers, insufficient infrastructure and paucity of funds will enhance the usual of training.

Tajpreet S Kang

Finest personal faculties could be studied

There are a selection of personal faculties within the state that are doing much better than their authorities counterparts. The federal government may have chosen the very best amongst them to observe their progressive methods of instructing to enhance the training requirements. The principals may have gotten educated right here solely. Now when the federal government has despatched a batch of 36 faculty principals to Singapore for skilled coaching, all of us ought to hail it and be optimistic concerning the outcomes. They might have undoubtedly learnt one thing new there, and may now present higher coaching to college students in regard to worldwide research or training. This may go a great distance in making authorities faculties extra widespread and compete in a greater means with the personal faculties. If the federal government faculties reach upgrading with newest methods and infrastructure, the Singapore go to might be value it and extra such journeys could be deliberate. Finding out in personal faculties is far costlier than the federal government faculties.

Rajat Kumar Mohindru