Education Minister directs NIOS to work on transparency and exam reform, check details here

The Union Minister suggested creating a dashboard with detailed information and contacts of all NIOS centres across the country. Read further to know the details.

During a review meeting of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), the Minister of Education Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, on August 24, 2020, asked officials to take steps to “increase the transparency” of the institute. Putting emphasis on the transparent working of NIOS to produce better results and to strengthen the examination process, the minister said, “so that no one can question the integrity of the prestigious institution”. In order to increase the transparency, the Union Minister suggested creating a dashboard with detailed information and contacts of all NIOS centres across the country. The dashboard will seek to provide information and suggestions from stakeholders so that transparency will be increased in the system. Secretary, School Education and Literacy, Ms Anita Karwal; Joint Secretary, School Education, Ms Sweety Changsan and senior officials of NIOS also attended the review meeting of NIOS.

According to the media reports, the minister also suggested remodeling of the NIOS syllabus along the lines of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus. Talking about increasing the scope of the institution, the minister directed NIOS officials to form a team to review whether the institution can be used “to provide education to the grass-root level” and “provide literacy to illiterate people of our country”.

The official statement issued states, “The Education Minister said that NIOS is the world's biggest open schooling system and we should use it more effectively to provide education to the grass-root level. He said that we should also use its network to provide literacy to illiterate people of our country. He directed officials to form a team to review the possibility on this matter.”

During the meeting, Mr also mentioned about the use of fresh papers for their book publication instead of recycled papers.

Explaining their strategy, NIOS explained that they are now providing six hours of fresh content daily to their students including weekends which were only for two hours before the COVID-19 crisis. The Institute of Open Schooling also informed that they are running four channels for their students out of which two are dedicated to secondary and higher secondary levels.

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