SRINAGAR, MARCH 01: Prof Parikhshat Singh Manhas, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE), who has also been given the additional responsibility of Director SCERT today said that the biggest challenge we face as educators today is preparing our kids for positions that do not yet exist and careers that change almost every day.
Prof Manhas said this during his maiden interaction with the faculty of the State Institute of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Kashmir Division.
“Currently, the perception at the national level is to produce job-creators rather than job seekers,” he said adding, “The only thing that would help achieve this aim would invariably be the ability to think creatively”.
Prof Manhas asserted that the idea that CBSE is somehow superior to JKBOSE needs to be corrected given that our teachers are at par with anyone in the business.
“Barring some minor changes and additions, the bulk of the syllabus is the same,” he said. “The problem is that we can not convince them that JKBOSE or SCERT, which we work for, are also doing a decent job, and that has to change”, he added.
