STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: In sync with the NEP-2020 (National Education Policy-2020), the State Government has upgraded 24 ME (Middle English) schools to high 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 five graduate teachers with science or arts degrees; (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 high school classes with the existing qualified faculty having graduate degrees.
The district-wise breakup of the 24 upgraded schools is: one each in Baksa, Biswanath, Chirang, Dhubri, Hailakandi, and Udalguri; three in Kamrup; five in Kokrajhar; and ten in Goalpara. The NEP 2020 recommends that schooling be imagined in four stages in a new 5+3+3+4 design covering ages 3-18.
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