Department of Education Kerala: An Overview

1. Department of Education:
An Overview

2. P K Abdu Rabb Minister for Education
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3. Shri. A.Ajith Kumar IAS Education Secretary
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4. A Shajahan IAS
Director of Public Instruction (DPI)
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5. ADPI- Academic
(Saralamma)
ADPI- Administrative

6. Joint Director (JD)
Arun Kumar

7. Deputy Director of Education (DDE)

8. DDE for 14 Districts
DDE for various sections like QIP
planning, examination, printing etc..
Administration charge is to
Administrative Assistant
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9. District Educational Officer (DEO)-38

10. District Educational Officer (DEO)
Administration charge is to the P A
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11. Assistant Educational Officer- 163
AEO is equal to High school HM in rank
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12. Assistant Educational Officer- 163
AEO is equal to High school HM in rank
Administration charge is to Sr. Superintended

13. High school Assistant (HSA)
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14. Primary Division Teacher

15. STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
AND TRAINING
(SCERT-Kerala)

16. Established in 1994
The State Institute of Education (SIE)
worked under Dept. of General Education
was converted into SCERT

17. Academic affairs from -2 to +2 are dealt by
SCERT

18. SCERT has six departments:
• Curriculum, Textbooks and Evaluation
(DCTE)
• Teacher Education (Pre-Service & IN-
Service) and Extension Services
• Educational Technology (DET)
• Art, Physical, Health and Vocational
Education
• Non-formal and Continuing Education
and Special Projects
• Educational Research, Documentation
and Dissemination

19. •Chairman of SCERT is the Minster for
Education.
•Vice-chairman is the Education Secretary.

20. Functionaries
Director of SCERT (Equal to the rank of
DPI)
K A Hashim

21. •Curriculum Head (Equal to JD)
•Asst. Professor (Equal to DD)
•Research Officer (Equal to DEO)

22. Material Preparation
Writing team (Head-Academic Coordinator)
Text book committee (Head-Chairman)
Curriculum Sub-committee
Steering Committee (Head- Minister for Edn.)

23. Six Curriculum Sub-Committees
General
Language
Mathematics
Science
Social Science

24. Structure of the Steering Committee
Convenor ---- Education Secretary
Chairman -----Minister for Edn.
SCERT Faculty members
Sub-Committee members
http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/

25. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH AND TRAINING
(NCERT)

26. Functions Under Human Resource
Development Ministry.

27. •The Union Minister for Human Resource
Development -Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju
•The Minister of State for Human Resource
Development -Dr. Shashi Tharoor

28. Director of NCERT - Prof. P Sinclair
Joint Director - Prof. B.K Tripathi
Secretary - Alok Verma
http://www.ncert.nic.in/organisation/sr_functn/sr_fucnt.html

29. •National Curriculum Framework(NCF)-2005
•Kerala Curriculum Framework (KCF)-2007

30. •NCF for Teacher Education-2009
•KCF for Teacher Education-2012

31. Topics come under NCF TE
•Pre-Service Teacher Education for Elementary Teachers.(TTC)
•Pre-Service Teacher Education for Secondary Teachers.(B.Ed)
•M.Ed.
http://www.ncert.nic.in/index.html

32. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
(Education for All Movement)

33. aimed at the universalization of
elementary education in a time bound
manner, as mandated by the 86th
amendment to the Constitution of India
making free education to children aged
6–14 (estimated to be 205 million in
number in 2001) a fundamental right.

34. Its goals of 2011 were to do the following:
•Open new schools in areas without them and to
expand existing school infrastructures and
maintenance.
•Address inadequate teacher numbers and provide
training a development for existing teachers.
•Provide quality elementary education including life
skills with a special focus on the education of girls
and of children with special needs, as well as
computer education.

35. Pioneered by Sri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

36. Force of the project..
SPD’s Office
•State Project Director (SPD)
•Assistant project Officer (APO)
District Project Office
•District Project Officer (DPO)-1
•District Programme Officer (DPO)-4
Block Resource Centre
•Block Programme Officer
•B.R.C Trainers
http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/Kerala_1.pdf

37. Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
(RMSA)

38. This scheme was launched in March, 2009
with the objective to enhance access to
secondary education and to improve its
quality. The implementation of the scheme
started from 2009-10.

39. Aims
•To achieve an enrolment rate of 75% from 52.26%
in 2005-06 at secondary stage within 5 years of
implementation of the scheme by providing a
secondary school within a reasonable distance of
any habitation.
•To improving quality of education imparted at
secondary level through making all secondary
schools conform to prescribed norms, removing
gender, socio-economic and disability barriers,
providing universal access to secondary level
education by 2017, i.e., by the end of 12th Five Year
Plan and achieving universal retention by 2020.

40. Important physical facilities provided under the
scheme are:
(i) Additional class rooms, (ii) Laboratories, (iii)
Libraries, (iv) Art and crafts room, (v) Toilet blocks,
(vi) Drinking water provisions and (vii) Residential
Hostels for Teachers in remote areas.

41. District Institute of Educational Training
(DIET)

42. 1986-NPE/NEP(National Policy on
Education)
Prime Minister-Rajiv Gandhi
Minister for HRD- Narasimha Rao
1989- Established three DIET’s in Kerala

43. Functions under the Ministry of Human
Resource Development
In the states it functions directly under
DPI
DIET is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.

44. To provide academic and resource support at the
grass-roots level for the success of the various
strategies and programmes being undertaken in the
areas of elementary and adult education, with
special reference to the following objectives: -
•Universalization of Primary/Elementary Education.
•Adult Education
•NLM targets in regard to functional literacy in the
15-35 age group.

45. Functionaries
Principal (Equal to DDE in rank)
Senior Lectures (Equal to DEO in rank) 7
Junior Lecturer (Equal to AEO in rank) 12 to 13

46. 7 Faculties
Pre-service Teacher Education (PSTE)-TTC
In-service Field interaction and coordination (IFIC)
Curriculum Material Development and Evaluation (CMDE)
Planning and Management (P&M)
Educational Technology (ET)
District Resource Unit for Adult Education (DRU for AE)
Work Experience and Art Education (WE & AE)

47. Other Institutions Under
General Education
State Institute of Education and
Training (SIET)
State Institute of Educational
Management and Training
(SIEMAT)
IT@ School

48. State Institute of English
Thrissur

49. District Centre for English
Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam,
Thrissur and Kozhikode