you had the opportunity, what actions would you demand of the United Nations Secretary General and why?

1. ACTIONS FOR UNITED
NATIONS SECRETARY
By Ms. Nishi Malhotra

2. Education For All
◦ Equity: To promote equality and democratic participation from all sections of society - SC (Schedule
Caste), ST (Schedule Tribes), Minorities and children with special needs
◦ Access: To provide access to modern infrastructure and facilities for children from all sections of
society
◦ Gender concern - To provide equal opportunity to girl students and ensure fuller development
◦ Centrality of Teachers : To train teachers to innovate and create a healthy teaching environment. To
sensitize them to child psychology
◦ Security - To ensure security of children from all kinds of external and internal threats and create a
secure studying environment. To introduce modern biometric and security systems . To ensure
tracking of each and every child and ensure participation of parents
◦ Nutrition and Development - To ensure fuller development of children through initiatives such as
Mid Day Meal Scheme
◦ Inclusion - To include Madrassas and other schools under the ambit of this national initiative.

3. ENROLLMENT ENHANCEMENT
◦ United Nations Secretary should work towards increasing Enrollment
& decreasing drop out rates
◦ To remove the challenges being faced by the Indian Education sector
◦ To put in place the Education Reforms, in field of Curriculum &
Pedagogy, faculty trainings and legal regulations
◦ To create infrastructure in terms of school and faculty

4. Adult Education
◦ To provide education opportunities to those who have lost the opportunity of
studying in primitive age
◦ To undertake projects for Skill Building & Vocational Training through Public Private
Partnerships
◦ To impart functional literacy to children
◦ To promote voluntary aegis for Adult Education and Skill Development
◦ To promote lifelong learning, development of skills and attitudes
◦ To promote adult education, vocational training and self development

5. Linking Education to Vocational Skills
◦ To create vocational skills among the students in secondary schools
◦ To reduce disparity through renewal of curriculum
◦ To emphasize on vocalization and employment oriented education
◦ To reorganize teacher training
◦ To reduce digital divide through classroom teachings and workshops
◦ To undertake capacity building, in terms of teacher training
◦ To provide equal opportunity for all through scholarships and financial
assistance

6. MODULES FOR EDUCATION AND
TRAINING OF TEACHERS
◦ To improve quality of teacher training
◦ To transact pre service and in service teacher training for elementary school teachers
◦ To create infrastructure for teacher training
◦ To create master trainers to implement in service programmes
◦ To create digital mode of teacher training
◦ To establish teacher training institutes
◦ To set up a flexible curriculum
◦ To create special module for Agriculture, Industry & Technological education

7. Financing for Education
◦ To introduce Public Private Partnership Models, to promote education for all:
◦ School Voucher System: Government pays monthly vouchers to students to enroll in Private players
school.
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Government Aided Schools : In Government Aided Schools, Government pays grant in form of
teachers salaries
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Management Services: Government entrusts the management of the existing Government schools
to the Private players
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Professional Services: Certain professional like teachers training quality assessment, student
evaluation and supplementary services.
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Operational Services: A Government school is operated by a Private Partner and this includes
deployment of its own teaching and non - teaching staff.

8. Curriculum & Pedagogy
◦ To make provision for stipends, scholarships, free uniform, free textbooks, free stationary to
secondary level
◦ To provide enhancement and vocational trainings to eliminate infrastructures losses
◦ Differentiated and standardized curriculum along with uniform assessment system to be
followed across all the states
◦ Deepening linkages between different agencies such as labour markets and ensuring a
collaborative teaching for all
◦ To put in place National Standards for education and put in place an education policy and
other quality assurance standards, greater autonomy, emergence, increased partnership
between several universities.
◦ To create Legal and Regulatory framework, to ensure implementation of Educational Reforms

9. Infrastructure & School Development
◦ Computer Literacy : ICT(Information Communication Technology) in education has
introduced new methods of program delivery. Introduction of technology into
education, has lead to newer education attitudes. There is a need for SMART
classroom, training teachers, experts and curriculum reforms.
◦ Official Languages: One of the major challenges facing the Education Sector in India
is use of English as sole medium of instruction. There is a need for reforming
curriculum to allow course delivery in native and regional languages.
◦ Purging of International Material: Several Governments all over the world, emphasize
the need for purging the International materials from curriculum material. Many
times Educational material is blamed for creating an anti - minority outlook.

10. Recommendations
◦ Foreign Collaborations: Incentivize high-quality private and foreign players to enhance quality capacity in the higher
education system. Promote disclosure of information by all higher education institutions to make the system accountable
and transparent and FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in unregulated and informal sector.
◦ Examination Reforms: Examination Reforms constitute the most important measure to be taken for curricular renewal.
Specific measures include changing the typology of the question paper and include the reasoning and creative abilities
and replace memorization as the basis of evaluation, integration of examinations with classroom life by encouraging
transparency and internal assessment.
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Adult Education: There is a need to develop a comprehensive policy on Adult education. Adult Education is important
because it provides a second chance of Formal education to those who have missed on learning during their childhood.
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Resistance Management: In wake of the Educational reforms and digital empowerment , there is very high level of
resistance management. There is need for undertaking Change Management, to overcome resistance.
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Socialization: Education reforms at increasing the level of socialization among the students . For fuller development. it is
very important that a congenial environment is created through socialization and participative education.