Welcome to INSTIUTE OF SECONDARY AND SENIOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (ISSSE).
ISSSE has always walked a step ahead in the area of educational delivery. In our quest to continuously innovate and bring world class educational services to students, ISSSE is committed to continuous and sustainable innovation. In this new age educational demands have drastically evolved, creating a special need for quality control in education.
With an objective to provide a highly flexible type of education for classes of Secondary/ Senior Secondary Education level to the underprivileged children belonging to all cadres of society, providing quality education through Regular and Open /Distance Learning System, to enable over-aged dropouts to complete their schooling and in view of the need to accelerate the pace and progress of Secondary education/ Senior Secondary, INSTIUTE OF SECONDARY AND SENIOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (ISSSE) has been established.
Aims & Objectives
To play a nodal and lead role in developing a network of Open Schooling in the country and help the States in adapting/adopting the course material as well as developing courses in regional languages;
To develop and prescribe or offer Vocational Courses to the students of the Open Channel;
To collaborate with agencies and institutions who would be willing to provide learning assistance to the students and to accredit such Learning Support Centres or Study Centres including study centres abroad; To provide secondary and senior secondary education to those belonging to disadvantaged groups (e.g. the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Socially and Educationally disadvantaged classes and other socially, culturally, economically, geographically weaker sections of the society, or such other factors as may be specified/ notified by the appropriate Government) and people belonging to weaker sections who are not able to get secondary and senior secondary education in the normal course of life.
To provide professional services to the government and other agencies in the field of education, in general, and school education, in particular, for the development and growth of distance and open school system and develop appropriate curriculum for vocational and continuing education to prepare student population for the world of work.
To provide the best possible teaching/ learning environment to its students, so that they can serve the society effectively and with dignity individualized study with flexibility in terms of place and duration.
To open schools/ academic centres, study centres, competitive training institutes and language institutes.
To identify educational needs of the children/persons of the State who are otherwise not catered to by the formal system of school education and to open study/academic centres.
To provide opportunities for school education up to pre-degree level through Regular and Open/Distance Learning (ODL) mode, to identify and promote standards of learning in Open and Distance Learning system.
To design and develop courses, self-instructional materials (SIM) and other learning support for the courses identified at different points of time, consulting the authorities needed to organize orientation and training programmes for the functionaries of the schooling system in the country, to evolve strategies for curriculum development, instructional procedures etc.
To undertake and coordinate educational research and programmes on the suggestion of the State government(s) concerned etc;
To establish contacts with international agencies in the field of education, specially school education, for keeping itself acquainted with the latest trends in curriculum development, material production, media use for dissemination etc, to establish links with other examining bodies with special focus on Asian countries;
To collaborate with other agencies within and outside the state for developing and delivering skill oriented courses of study, to promote and publicize schooling programmes and activities in the country.
To maintain standards and equivalence with formal education system,
To provide opportunities for continuing education to those who have missed opportunities to complete school and development education, and other children/persons desirous of pursuing school level education through ISSSE mode by offering courses and programmes of general education, life enrichment and vocational education up to pre-degree level.
To establish Regional Centres, for purposes of promoting the proper functioning of the Learning Support or Study Centres;
To publish or cause to be published and to print the learning and other materials developed by the Bharath Institute of Schooling Education
To prescribe rules and conditions for the registration of students, for eligibility for appearing at the examinations, for its conduct, and for all other rules consonant with and necessary for the proper fulfilment of the teaching, examining and certifying authority vested;
To provide consultancy services and to engage in model building, in close collaboration with States and a variety of other agencies or institutions;
To develop and prescribe or offer a wide spectrum of courses of study, for purposes of general vocational and continuing education, either leading to certification at the school stage up to the under graduate level (including Certificates/Diplomas) or for life and job enrichment and certification;
To establish linkages with contemporary education systems like State Councils, Sanskrit Councils, Madrasa Councils and state open Councils with mainstream education system with mobility across them and equivalence between them, to expand access to school education at all levels and to increase retention rates at all levels of schooling.
To encourage, promote and conduct a system of School Education relevant to the students/ learners, to organize training programmes at national and international level on `Schooling’ system;
To promote interaction and co-ordination among open schools to make study of various subjects more purposeful and to effect a fusion between traditional and modern system of education;
To institute career oriented courses related to education through distance learning/ correspondence courses; to develop courses of education in various subjects.
To remove the obstacles for providing secondary and senior secondary education to the disadvantaged sections of the society and to bring disadvantaged groups in the fold of mainstream of secondary/ senior secondary education.
To establish/ affiliate schools for study of literature and allied branches of knowledge; to conduct examinations at secondary/senior secondary levels as per the guidelines laid down, to develop courses of instruction related to various languages and sciences up to Secondary/Higher Secondary level;
To conduct online and offline examination of secondary , senior secondary level in all over country and to announce the results of concerned examination and release certificates to passed candidates time to time;
To establish & maintain institution for the handicapped & for adult education, like vocational training in vocation of household industry, semi – skilled jobs for self-employment, short hand & type – writing, and social science, Languages, Fine arts. Crafts, music, painting, modelling, physical training etc.
To organize educational and vocational training programme with special concern for deprived sections, women/girls and unemployment youth to provide new skills, refine/sharpen/up-grade the existing skills.
To give affiliation for schools and colleges, to open information centres in all over India for providing information of Education & Health, to organize conferences, summits seminars, meeting, discussion, debates, study courses, and to conduct short term and long term vocational courses/training for the cause of society.
To open training camps and workshops for the development of arts, plays and culture and raise funds through subscriptions, donations, trade to fulfil the aims and objects, to publish books and study materials;
To impart free education and cultural training to the poor, helpless, handicapped and needy children/students, to establish and maintain institutions for adult education with the consent of the concerned authorities;
To strive to meet changing need of providing comprehensive education to develop various facets of personality and to impart education to children on the most modern lines & provide an environment congenial to growth & development of the children, To arrange & organize the social, cultural & educational programmes from time to time.
To train the downtrodden people in general for human resource development in computer, environmental studies, health, education.
To work for the empowerment and sensitization of women, adolescents and children, to make up efforts for the education, welfare and development of women, children and backward community in both urban and rural areas throughout the country, to establish the medical facilities in the working locality (if required) such as family planning centres, dispensaries, hospitals etc.
To establish Academic centre(s) for the promotion of School Education, Music, Dance and other Arts, to establish residential and non-residential cultural centres for promoting Music, Dance and other Arts, to organized vocational training for women and needy people, to aware people about their democratic & fundamental rights.