REVIVE SIKH PRACTICES FOR CONTINUING AND ADULT EDUCATION

Continuing education is education provided for adults after they have left the formal education system, consisting typically of short or part-time courses. Adult education is a vital component of the lifelong-learning field, covering the entire range of formal, non-formal and informal learning activities, general and vocational, undertaken by adults after leaving initial education and training. Here I want to include those who never entered any school premises. In India only 22 % children enjoy the school campus environment. If we want to manage total quality in education we have to initiate with innovative practices independently i.e. without government empathy. In education „Total" is „All"; education for everyone. In our educational system we are far away from TOTAL with only 69.95% literacy. This is literacy and education is too much far away. Are we trying to reach everyone? „Continuing education and Adult education" is the answer! Second is Quality; "High degree of excellence in meeting the requirements of customers (learners)”. Just forget about „high degree of excellence" for the time being and concentrate on the other issue i.e. the customers; we lack customers, as half of our school-going children are working as labourers away from the schools. Are we doing something? Again „Continuing education and Adult education" is the answer! Third is Management; process to accomplish goals. We cannot accomplish goals with less number of customers i.e. students and less number of managers i.e. teachers. Though we are trying with continuing and adult education but see the facts: