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Jan 27 2009

Education in Intellocracy

Education is the second most important function of an Intellocratic government after free health services to the people. Educational feature of Intellocracy has two important ingredients - opportunities to all for uniform and free education, and avoidance of competition through strategic planning. Competition exists only when an imbalance of demand and supply is there for want of proper planning. Intellocracy stresses on advance planning in all sectors including education. Commercialization of educational services is totally prohibited in Intellocracy to avoid subversion of Intellectual capability to economic resourcefulness.
Education has two categories - academic for acquiring basic knowledge, and vocation, for application of the basic knowledge, the second may be called applied education or training also.
Various levels of education in the two categories are depicted in the diagram below.
Education Levels
A. Academic Education

    The academic education has a total of six levels -
    1. Primary :
    A five year course concentrated on reading and writing of mother tongue of the children, along with basic knowledge of Arithmatics and history and geography of the local region of the students.
    2. Metric :
    A four year course after Primary with focus on advancement in mother tongue, and a second language of the student’s choice, basic mathematics, science, history and geography of the country.
    3. Inter :
    Three year courses of three sectors - Sciences, Humanities, and Commercial practices. Students shall be able to join any one sector of course to suit their interests and career plans. Here, the students may opt to study either a third language or advancements in the two languages learned at Metric level.
    4. Graduate :
    Three year courses after inter level course in various sectors of education with focus on particular subjects empowering the students with thorough knowledge of their fields of studies.
    5. Master :
    Acquiring command on a single subject is the purpose of this 2 year course after graduation available for each subject of study. The purpose of this course is to develop a workforce for Academic faculty positions.
    6. Research :
    There shall be no teaching classes for research students but the students shall be motivated by their guides to self-study their topics of research using resource libraries in the academic institutions of the country, with no bindings on time and place of self-study.

B. Vocational Education

As shown in the diagram above, the Vocational education has 5 levels in all with each level given the next higher equivalent value as compared to the Academic education.
1. Certificate :
Any matriculate may opt to join a Certificate course of the vocational education. Purpose of this course to prepare a large pool of industrial and commercial workers in the country, considered to be directly productive manpower.
2. Diploma :
Either a certificate holder of vocational education or an inter-qualified student of academic education may join this level of courses intended to produce manpower of supervisory level in production and service industry units.
3. Graduate :
A Graduate of Academic education or a Diploma-qualified of Vocational education may join this level of courses of various fields of production and services. The intention is produce Management personnel for the production and service industries f the country.
4. Master :
A Master of Academic education or a Graduate of Vocational education my join this 2 year course to et prepared for faculty for the Vocational education.
5. Research :
Research in Vocational subjects is same as that in Academic subjects but with a higher rating.

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