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[Sumit Bhardwaj]

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Objectives of the school

Ensuring cent percent enrolment.
Ensuring cent percent retention of children enrolled in schools.
Providing an inclusive environment in schools conducive to differently abled children, children from marginalised sections, and children hailing from difficult circumstances.
Enriching the knowledge of the students in scholastic and co-scholastic disciplines.
Improving the Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic skills of the children.
Providing infrastructure facilities to promote quality education in all schools.
Enrolling all out-of-school children especially children of migrant labourers, street children, dropouts etc., and mainstream them in regular schools.
To provide universal access to Secondary and Higher Secondary Schooling to all children in the age group of 14 to 18 years by establishing high schools within 5 kms and higher secondary schools within 8 kms from their habitations.
To achieve universal enrolment by providing free transport to all students and residential facilities based on local needs
Trimester pattern of education with Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) as an innovative methodology for assessment of learning to bring out innate potentials of children.
To ensure that every child enrolled completes his / her higher secondary education and enters in to higher education.
To transform library movement into people’s movement and a social movement.
To provide library facilities in every village where the population exceeds 1000.
To ensure the implementation of various initiatives taken by the Government for the enhancement of quality education
To promote Educational Research and Training in educational research methodology

Educational Structure
The Structure of education in the state, as presented in the figure is based on the national level pattern with 12 years of schooling (10+2+3)

Consisting of eight years of elementary education, that is, five years of primary and three years of middle school education for the age groups of 6-11 and 11-14 years, respectively, followed by secondary and higher secondary education of two years each besides two years of pre-primary education.

The entry age in class 1 is 5+. Pre-primary classes form age group 3 to 4. The higher secondary school certificate enables pupils to pursue studies either in universities or in colleges for higher education in general academic streams and in technical and professional courses such B.E., MBBS., elementary teacher training (ETT) etc., which are of different durations.

A student can join the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) and Polytechnic after high school.

After higher secondary or the +2 stage, the first University degree takes three years to complete followed by Post Graduation course of two years.

Students can also join Professional Courses like B.Ed., and B.L. after completion of graduation and on completion of Post Graduation, a student may work for M.Phil/Ph.D degree.


Address:-
Department of School Education of Government of Tamil Nadu
School Education Department,
Government of Tamil Nadu,
Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

Phone:-
2567 2790