Secondary Education Commission

1. Secondary Education
Commission
1952 – 1953

2. Secondary Education
Commission
(Mudaliar Commission)
• 1952 September 23
• Chairman of the committee –
Dr. A. Lexmanswamy Mudaliar
• Secretary of the committee – A. N. Basu

3. Aims of Secondary Education
commission
• To develop balanced personality.
• To inculcate democratic citizenship.
• To promote the spirit of nationality and national
integration.
• Formation of character and development of
ethical qualities.
• To inculcate quality of leadership.
• To cultivate discipline, cooperation, social
sensitiveness and tolerance.
• To develop vocational efficiency.

4. Challenges in Secondary
Education
Access
QualityEquity
Issues
Gender
Socio-Economic
Disability
Disadvantaged

5. Importance Of Secondary
Education
Secondary Education:
 Develops faculties of critical thinking,
abstraction, insight, skills and competence at a
higher level
 Foundation for higher education
 Requirement for employment and labour market
quality
 Critical to social and economic development and
growth
 Rates of return on secondary education are high
 Rising demand from elementary leavers
 International competitiveness
 Gender equity

6. Characteristics of Secondary
Education Commission
1. The duration should be 7 years (Children between 11 to 17)
 It should begin after 5 years of primary education.
2 The mother tongue or regional language should be the medium
of instruction through out secondary stage.
3 English or Hindi should be introduced at the end of junior
basic stage.
4 All the middle school stage, the curriculum should include
Languages, Social Studies, General Science, Mathematics. Arts
and Music, Craft and Physical Education.

7. 5. The existing text books should be modernized. Frequent
changes in text books should be encourages.
6. Steps should be taken to open multipurpose schools to
provide vocational courses according to natural
aptitude and inclinations of the learner and also the
occupational needs of the community.
7. The teaching should be made more purposeful and
realistic by reducing verbalism.
8. The existing examination system should be restructured.
The number of external examinations should be
reduced. More objective type questions should be
included to eliminate the element of subjectivity.

8. 9. The service of trained Guidance Officers and Career
Masters should be made available gradually in all
school.
10. There should be uniform system for the selection and
appointment of teachers.
11. There should be a Board of Secondary Education
consisting of not more than 25 members with Director
of Education as its Chairman to deal with all matters of
education at the secondary stage and to lay down
general policies.

9. 1. It laid foundation for the process of vocationalisation of
education in India.
2. The guidance and counseling programme in schools,
recommended by the commission.
3. It caused radical changes in teaching learning activity.
4. It give practical suggestions for the overhauling of
examination system, made it more inclusive and genuine.
Merits of Secondary
Commission

10. Demerits Secondary Commission
1. The commission’s suggestion’s
regarding the high power committee
for selecting text books was
ridiculous and unrealistic.
2. It neglected the area of women’s
education.
3. The three language formula was a
burden on the students.

11. Curriculum
Beyond
Reforms in
Secondary
EducationExamination
Teachers
Infrastructure
MethodologyDrop outs
Improving in
Empowerment
Quality
•ICT/Technology
Quality Secondary
Education
Transaction

12.  ICT in Schools
 Integrated Education for the
Disabled Children
 “SUCCESS” – Universalisation of
Access to Secondary Education
 Means-cum-Merit Scholarship
 Incentive for Girls
 Girls’ Hostel
 Vocationalisation of Secondary
Education
 To universalize secondary education
(class IX and X) during the 12th Five
Educational importance

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