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The Concept of Education
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Introduction
The concept of education is ageless and there is of course no age that has not depended on education as the basic element in all components of society, including the underpinning of the economy. In today’s world that such hyperbole is used as information spread and that are applied to society for the dissemination and renovation of information technology that can hyper link growth and create new possibilities for the development and more specifically through information technologies and creative explorations.
The importance of higher education system in addressing the economic prospects of a nation has never been in doubt. The contribution of the higher education system for the development of knowledge, skill, and creativity and for the generation of wealth, growth of employment, improvement in productivity and enhancement of global competitive capabilities are well recognized by the recent National Knowledge Commission Report on higher education.
Elementary Education
Primary school in the remote Kanji village of the Cargill district During the eighth five-year plan, the target of “universalizing” elementary education was divided into three board parameters: Universal Access, Universal Retention and Universal Achievement i.e., making education accessible to children, making sure that they continue education and finally, achieving goals. As a result of education programs, by the end of 2000, 95% of India’s rural population had primary schools within one km and 84% had upper primary schools within 3 km. Special efforts were made to enroll SC/ST and girls. The enrollment in primary and upper-primary schools has gone up considerably since the first five-year plan. So has the number of primary and upper-primary schools. In 1950-51, only 3.1 million students had enrolled for primary education. In 1997-98, this figure was 39.5 million. The number of primary and upper-primary schools was 0.223 million in 1950-51. This figure was 0.775 million in 1996-97.
In 2002/2003, an estimated 82% of children in the age group of 6-14 were enrolled in school. The Government of India aims to increase this to 100% by the decade. To achieve this the Government launched Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
Secondary education
In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education consists of the second years of formal education that occur during adolescence. It is characterized by transition from the typically compulsory comprehensive primary education for minors to the optional, selective tertiary,”post-secondary”, or “higher” education (e.g., university, vocational school) for adults. Depending on the system, schools for this period or a part of it may be called secondary or high schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, middle schools, colleges, or vocational schools. The exact meaning of any of these varies between the systems.
Higher Secondary Education in Tamil Nadu
In Tamil Nadu the higher secondary pattern of education was introduced in 1978. The higher secondary classes were attached to the school. There were no separate institutions for higher secondary classes alone. This course forms the link between secondary education and higher education. Apart from corporation higher secondary schools which are run by the local bodies namely municipal corporations, there are three types of higher secondary schools