6.1 School Improvement Plan (SIP)
A plan that aims at improving the
pros and cons of a school is regarded as School Improvement Plan (SIP). In the
context of Nepal, a plan that is carried out from improving primary schools is
known as SIP. It has been lunched by Basic or Primary Education Board under
Education Department.
Basic and Primary Education Project
has launched its program to improve physical and educational phenomena from the
very beginning. SIP attempts to improve the managerial side of schools. The
plan aims to enhancing the local capacity of a school. Managerial sector of the
school is a focal point of this plan. Education Department has launched SIP to
make the local people contribute in their concerned schools. This plan aims at
transferring the responsibility of the school to local people from the
government. So, Basic and Primary Education Board provides at least six-day
training for developing managerial as well as planning skills to school
management committee. SIP wants to school equip with the following
characteristics:
a.
Clear
view
b.
Clear
aim
c.
Strategy
d.
Participation
of the concerned
e.
Active
learning
f.
Stratification
g.
Source
mobilization
6.1.1
Steps of SIP
SIP aims at improving all aspects of
school in real sense. One aspect of the school may affect other aspects. That
is why SIP must be carried out as follows:
1.
Analysis
of the present condition of school or finding out the problem
2.
Finding
to the cause of problems and identifying the solutions
3.
Prioritizing
the problems
4.
Finding
out the resources for solving the problems
5.
Determining
the long term and short term targets of the school
6.
Determining
the program and its utility
7.
Formatting
the educational Index and determining phase-wise target
8.
Determining
the factual investment and managing the resources
9.
Evaluating
of the planning
10. Implementing the
program
11. Monitoring
12. Feedback
6.2
Village Education Plan (VEP)
Village
Education Plan (VEP) aims at improving the schools in according with the need
of concerned village. It is village education committee (VEC) that prepares village
education plan (VEP) as per the SIP prepared by the school inside a village
development committee. Seventh amendment to education law 2059 BS has managed a
provision of a Village Education Committee under the presidency of chairperson
of concerned village development committee. It is village development committee
that plays a vital role on preparing and implementing VEP in effective way.
Formation of
Village Education Plan (VEP)
The committee of
a Village Education Plan will be formulated as follows:
Ø Chairpersons of
School Management Committee member
Ø Three social
workers and educational leader including one woman as members
Ø School
supervisor from that area
Ø Member of
district development committee of that area
Ø The senior head
teacher of the VDC is nominated as general secretary
Responsibilities
of Village Educational Plan
1.
To
are responsibility of developing schools of the Village Development Committee
(VDC).
2.
To
encourage children to enroll in primary level.
3.
To
hold household survey in the VDC for collecting the date regarding literacy
rate, population of primary school age children, number of children inside and
outside school, total households and population of the VDC.
4.
To
coordinate among schools of the VDC in a bid to find out necessary resources
and identify alternative educational programs.
5.
To
prepare the details of the VDC.
6.
To
prepare Village Education Plan with clear aims, goals and financial resources.
7.
To
support the school management committee for identifying resources materials and
implementing them.
8.
To
conduct different awareness program, training, seminar and workshop for
ensuring quality education.
9.
To
update the record of educated manpower in the VDC.
6.3
District Education Plan (DEP)
District
Education Plan (DEP) aims to developing the education of the districts. It is a
district level coordinated plan to ensure qualitative as well as quantitative
development in education.
Each
District Education Office (DEO) prepares plan and implements some educational
programs to meet the need of respective district. Basic primary education
program 2057 BS has made a mandatory provision for the district education office
to prepare an educational plan for the district by taking into consideration
the need of the district. The five-year plan is evaluated every year and gets
reformed if needed.
District
education plan aims at implementing bottom up approach for developing local
level education. Educational plan prepared by the central level cannot address
the need and aspirations of local level. Each district differs with the other
in terms of geography, socio-economy including other aspects. So such
differences require different programs that can address the real need. Local need
determines the priority sector. So, local stakeholders should be included in
preparing, implementing, regulating and evaluating the education.
In
fact, district education plan is an integrated plan to address the local need and
necessities of education to make educational decision process and inclusive,
decentralized and democratic.
Steps of District Education plan (DEP)
DEP
is decentralized micro planning It starts from the bottom. DEP follows such
steps:
a. First
Phase
The first phase of DEP requires
each and every schools of concerned district to prepare SIP. SIP helps to know
the present situation of the school and possibilities of its improvement.
b. Second
Phase
Each and every school should be
prepare a report on the basis of VEP and send it to resource center.
c. Third
phase
Resource center should compile the
village education plan received from the village of the concerned areas and submit
them to district education office.
d. Fourth
phase
A planning team under district
education office prepares the district education plan by analyzing all of those
reports on a standard basis. A planning advisory team will study and analyze
the profile to improve it before submitting to the District Education Office
(DEO). The DEO submits the draft plan to District Development Committee (DDC)
by endorsing through district education committee. The education and sports
committee of DDC will present it to integrated planning team of district chairperson.
Then district development plan will be prepared by prioritizing the necessity
of the district where educational plan is part of it. Then, the integrated plan
will be endorsed by the district development council to get legality. Then, it
is presented to education department of education ministry through regional
educational directorate to present it in national planning commission for
budgeting.
6.4 Secondary
Education Support Program (SESP)
Secondary
Education Support Program (SESP) as its name suggests aims at assisting
government run secondary schools in a bid to develop quality education. It also
aims to develop the secondary education in all aspects to increase enrolment in
secondary education. In ensures that all children who have completed primary
education must be enrolled to secondary education. The program aims to improve
access to quality secondary education in harmony with development needs of the
country. The government of Nepal with the help of Asian Development Bank (ADB)
and DANIDA (The Danish International Development Assistance) lunched the
program in 2003. It is framed in the first five year planning up to 2007 in the
first phase.
Objectives
of SESP
1. To
improve the quality and relevance of secondary education.
2. To
improve access to secondary education with focus on girls, children with
special learning needs, poor and marginalized groups.
3. To
develop the institutional capacity and management of educational institutions
at all levels.
4. To
improve relevancy of secondary education relating with national need.
5. To
extend and improve quality secondary education relating with national need.
Some Educational Projects and Programs
a. Seti
Educational for Education for Rural Development (SERD) 1981 (2038BS)
b. Primary
Educational Project (PEP) 2041
c. Basic
and Primary Education (BPEP-I) 2047
d. Basic
and Primary Education (BPEP-II) 2053
