Non availabity of Syllabus

Syllabus
is the most important component of any education board. It is one of
the primary document to be provided to students whenenver they enroll
for any course. According to Cambridge dictionary, syllabus is “(a
plan showing) the subjects or books to be studied in a particular
course, especially a course that leads to an exam”.

Designing
a syllabus is the responsibility of the evaluation and certification
authority. In Indian education system syllabus is designed by
Education Boards and Universities. Each education board design the
syllabus based on guidelines issued by NCERT (National Council for Education Research and Training) or SCERT (State Council for Education Research and Training). The syllabus is made available to
teachers and students, so that they can follow it and prepare for
final assessment/evaluation.

Prior
to introduction of Internet, the syllabus of such Boards and
Universities was not so easily available. Boards use to print the
copy of syllabus and made it available on office counters and the
board offices in district headquarters and one was required to
approach the board to obtain the copy.

Internet
has proved itself a boon in the field of eduation. Almost everything
is available on click, just google (perform internet search using any
search engine like google) it and the information is available.

In
2015, the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBOSE) decided
to change the name of subject known as Informatics Practices to
Computer Science and also changed the syllabus of subject. Upto 2015
HPBOSE followed CBSE syllabus of Informatics Practices (Visual Basic
6 aka VB-Oracle) which CBSE changed somewhere about 2010 to
(Java-MySQL).

I
was hoping that this change is going to be for the betterment of the
students because the combination of VB6 and Oracle was out of use. I
was expecting some core computer science where student can learn more
advanced and useful technology. But to my surprise I found many
things that was unexpected. I will write another blog on my
observation on the new syllabus sometime later.

Syllabus not Availabe on HP Baord Site 

Now
there comes a bad news, if you are interested to know the contents of
this so called new syllabus, you can not get is so easily, because
the copy of syllabus is not easily available. One have to rely on the
syllabus printed on the preface of the text books published by some
of the private publishers and have no method to validate it. Yes what
I want to say here is that the syllabus is not available even on
official Board’s website. There is no section on the official
website of HPBOSE, which is hpbose.org, where you can find syllabus
of any subject forget the Computer Science alone. I dont think that
HPBOSE is publishing the syllabus, the way it use to do before
internet. This make it more difficult for teachers, students as well
as parents to obtain the latest copy of the syllabus prescribed by
the Board.