Kerala Education Department rolls out mentoring programme to help higher secondary students get mentors

The programme Oppamundu Adhyapakar is being implemented on a pilot basis in all government- and aided schools in Ernakulam.

Unless the pandemic situation improves drastically and schools reopen anytime soon, the higher secondary students across the State may end up completing their schooling without ever meeting their teachers in person. The gaps that this season of remote learning may leave in the academics and personality of teenagers have prompted the State Education Department to rollout a mentoring programme for them facilitating personal interactions between teachers and students. The programme, Oppamundu Adhyapakar (Teachers Are With You) is being implemented on a pilot basis in all government- and aided schools in Ernakulam under the Career Guidance and Adolescent Counselling Cell (CGACC) of the General Education Department.