Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) plans to introduce a grading system to ease stress on students in junior corporate colleges as a measure to prevent suicides.
The working hours of junior colleges would be restricted to between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm, special chief secretary Ranjeev R. Acharya told private college managements on Tuesday.
The management should follow the academic calender issued by the BIE, which lists the number of working days, general and term holidays and vacations.
Ms Acharya said parents speak up in support of corporate colleges if the government tried to shut them for violating rules. “Parents ask us to penalise the colleges. Strict action will be taken against colleges who will not follow the guidelines,” she said.
BIE secretary Dr A. Ashok said, “Recreational activities like games, sports, yoga and meditation should be made compulsory in junior colleges. Every college should engage students at least for one hour either in an open ground or in the gym to make them physically fit and relieve stress.”
He said the BIE would monitor hostels as those managed by private college managements were unauthorised and unhygienic. “The hostels should be sanctioned and controlled by the social welfare development,” he said.
Not more than four students should be accommodated in a single room and the management should provide sufficient number of washrooms lack of which was found to be one of the reasons for stress among students’. The BIE instructed the private junior colleges to appoint full time professional counsellors to counsel students on a regular basis. It advised them to appoint women teachers in girls’ colleges as far as possible.
“’We have instructed college managements to conduct orientation programmes pyschologists and counsellors for the parents,” Dr A. Ashok said.
Only 2,900 schools submit their expense reports so far
Only 2,900 schools have submitted their expense reports so far, said commisioner and director for school education G. Kishan.
He was speaking at a meeting that the Prof. Tirupathi Rao committee held with parents and school associations on Tuesday.
Private schools demanded an additional two weeks to complete uploading financial data.
The meeting was conducted to discuss issues regarding fee hikes and formation of fee regulation committee.
Mr Kishan insisted that schools implement the same free structure for the next academic year toll the district fee regulation committees are formed.
