STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: In sync with the NEP-2020 (National Education Policy-2020), the State Government has upgraded 62 high schools to higher secondary schools under certain conditions.
The conditions, according to an order issued by the Directorate of Secondary Education (DSE), are: (i) the schools to be upgraded should not have any proposal for amalgamation; (ii) such schools should have at least two additional classrooms available; (iii) each of such schools must have four graduate teachers holding postgraduate degrees in a minimum of four core subjects; (iv) the government will not create any new posts in the schools to be upgraded; (v) the government will not extend any financial grants to the schools set to be upgraded; and (vi) the schools must give an undertaking that they will run higher secondary classes with the existing qualified faculty having postgraduate degrees.
The district-wise breakup of the 62 upgraded schools is: one each in Baksa, Bongaigaon, Cachar, Dhubri, Hailakandi, Karbi Anglong, Karimganj, Nalbari, and Sivasagar; two each in Dima Hasao, Goalpara, Tinsukia, and West Karbi Angling; three each in Jorhat, Kokrajhar, and Sonitpur; four each in Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, and Udalguri; six each in Kamrup (M) and Morigaon; and eight in Golaghat.
The NEP 2020 recommends that schooling be imagined in four stages in a new 5+3+3+4 design covering ages 3–18. The Secondary Stage (Grades IX–XII in two phases, i.e., IX and X in the first and XI and XII in the second, covering ages 14–18.
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