CHENNAI: The State government is in talks with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) to enhance hands-on training for students of vocational stream at higher secondary level. This was stated by Minister for School Education, Thangam Thennarasu here on Monday.
Launching Thalir - a life skill programme and value education for school students here, he said, the move follows a set of recommendations by the panel constituted to study about students passing out of schools with vocational stream background. The first round of talks with the CII, which could be carried out under public private partnership (PPP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is already over, he added.
Laying stress on conducting moral instruction classes, which are gradually being encroached upon by other classes, he said, “This made us start library hours, in order to drive students towards libraries for reading books,” he noted.
The Minister said, this novel initiative experimented on pilot basis in five schools for an year in different parts of Tamil Nadu would be extended to 4000 other schools using audio video kits.