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The National Curriculum Framework, 2005, recommends that children’s life at school must be linked to
their life outside the school. This principle makes a departure from the legacy of bookish learning
which continues to shape our system and causes a gap between the school, home, community and the
workplace.
The student’s workbook on “Apparel, Made-ups and Home Furnishing” is a part of the qualification package developed for the implementation of National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India to set common principles and guidelines for a nationally recognized qualification system covering Schools, Vocational Education and Training Institutions, Technical Education Institutions, Colleges and Universities. It is envisaged that the NSQF will promote transparency of qualifications, cross-sectoral learning, student-centred learning and facilitate learner’s mobility between different qualifications, thus encouraging lifelong learning.
The Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education (PSSCIVE), a constituent has developed modular curricula for the vocational qualification package in Apparel, Made-ups and Home Furnishings sector for NSQF levels 1 to 4; which are equivalent to Class IX, X, XI and XII. Development of learning material based on the curriculum is under process. Student’s workbook for Class IX has been submitted, present student’s workbook is for Class X.
This student’s workbook, which forms a part of vocational qualification package for students who have passed Class IX or equivalent examination, was developed by a group of experts. This student’s workbook attempts to discourage rote learning and to bring about necessary flexibility in offering of courses, necessary for breaking the sharp boundaries between different subject areas. We hope these measures will take us significantly further in the direction of a child-centred system of education outlined in the National Policy of Education (1986).
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The state Govt. shared learning of the project with MHRD Govt. of India and other states which in turn facilitated modifications in the Centrally Sponsored Programme of ‘Vocationalisation of Higher Secondary Education’. The State even came out with an Operational Manual for the implementation of the programme which has since been shared with MHRD and also with the States for their benefit. The success of the programme has been acknowledged at various national forums. MHRD Govt. of India allotted another 100 schools in 2013-14 where in addition to 4 trades as mentioned above, the State Govt. introduced another 3 trades namely Patient Care Assistant, Physical Education & Sports and Beauty & Wellness – of course two trades in each school as per ceiling/norms fixed by the Govt. of India.
The state has taken another lead in establishing a State Level Centre of Excellence in the applied learning skills at Faridabad with a Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School in applied learning skills in its campus where all the seven skills have been introduced and each student enrolled in class 9th would take up IT/ITes in addition to one other trade. The Centre of Excellence would act as a model in training of Master Trainers, Teachers, upgrading skills of manpower deployed in the industry, undertake research activities and also would act in close coordination with Industry.