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Express News Service THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Digital classes on KITE-Victers channel and additional online classes at the school level the government’s plan for the general education sector in the wake of the raging pandemic. But how will these online sessions be carried out in many higher secondary schools that do not have even a single teacher for a subject? The government doesn’t seem to have any answers. The filling of teachers’ vacancies in higher secondary schools has been put on the back burner for the past year and a half. Unlike high schools, the higher secondary sector has dozens of course combinations, with only one teacher to handle a particular subject in many schools. With the Plus I examinations scheduled in August, students who have been deprived of proper classes for such subjects are groping in the dark.
Express News Service THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the General Education Department deciding to go ahead with the Higher Secondary Plus-II examinations as per schedule, the slow progress of online classes has left students worried. In such a scenario, parents and teachers have demanded either trimming the Plus-II syllabus or conducting practical examinations after the public examinations in March. Though there are around 52-course combinations in Higher Secondary, classes for only 21 combinations are being offered through the KITE Victers channel due to technical constraints. Classes for other subjects and course combinations are offered through its YouTube channel. For some rare subject combinations, no online classes have started yet, point out students.