Physical Education will be Part of School Curriculum

Physical Education will be Part of School Curriculum

“PE teachers will be allowed to head high schools”

Bangalore: Playgrounds will no longer be a place for aimless leisure for students. Physical education (PE), not taken seriously by most schools, will shortly become part of the curriculum from primary to pre-university classes.

PE Teachers in high schools will be placed on a par with other teachers and they can head those schools on a seniority basis.

These recommendations of the L.R. Vaidyanathan Committee constituted by the Karnataka Government are all set to become a part of the education policy.

Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basavaraj Horatti said here on Tuesday that PE Hitherto was being imparted only for namesake. There had been no specific policy on PE, let alone on education itself

Mr.Horatti said being a PE teacher himself he was determined to accord physical education its due status in school curriculum.

The Minister was inaugurating a workshop on “Review of curriculum contents of B.P. Ed. Course in the universities of Karnataka” organized by the University College of Physical Education (UCPE), Bangalore University (BU), at Jnana Bharathi. He said the Government had accepted the Vaidyanathan Committee recommendations.

Mr.Horatti said the Government would appoint PE teachers for every school that had classes from one to seven and playground. PE teachers in government schools that did not have playgrounds would be transferred to schools that had playgrounds.

The Government would soon start the process of recruiting PE teachers in primary schools. Permission to start new schools would be accorded only if they had playgrounds, Mr. Horatti said.

The Minister said Yoga would be part of this exercise because physical and mental soundness should go together.

Physical Education will be Part of School Curriculum

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