Students of GPS Tsiepfütsiepfe in Kohima District pictured sitting at their desks and benches, which were acquired using funds from the Performance Incentive Grants (PIG). (Photo Courtesy: NECTAR)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | February 26
Nagaland Governor La Ganesan today said that the Department of School Education have designed interventions through various mechanisms such as; strengthening of education management information systems (EMIS), developing a teacher attendance monitoring system (TAMS), formation of professional learning communities (PLCs) of adult learners consisting of system leaders, education managers, and teachers to strengthen continuous professional development through decentralised capacity building models.
Further, for enhancement of the overall teaching and learning environment, we are planning to construct 16 school complexes based on a hub and spoke model, known as the Lighthouse School Complexes, he said.
“My Government is giving highest priority to nurturing and developing our human resources, in which we have great potentials in terms of age profile, talent and motivation. We are trying to ensure that our educational system at all levels keeps pace with the time and the newest developments in education sector,” he said.
He informed that the government has made quality assurance an integral part of our higher educational institutions.
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has successfully accredited 36 colleges out of 71 colleges in the state through the initiative of Department of Higher and Technical Education.
Out of the 17 Government colleges also, we have been able to get 13 colleges assessed by NAAC, he said.
Our aim is to get all the remaining colleges also assessed at the soonest possible time. For improving the standard of our technical education, we are trying to get accreditation of National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for all our polytechnic institutes, and to up-grade 3(three) of our Diploma Institutes to Degree Engineering, he said.
In a move which will have a far reaching and decisive impact on the higher education landscape in the state, Ganesan said that the state government is actively pursuing with the Central Government for setting up an Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) in Nagaland.
An institute like IISER could give the State a national institute of importance, and would immensely help in promoting science and maths education, and research in the state, he said.
The government has acquired about 200 acres of prime land at a very well connected location in Sukhovi, Chümoukedima district for setting up the IISER.
