Archive · 4 Sep 2026
Lecturers Oppose Merger of Intermediate and School Education
Lecturers want intermediate education to remain separate from school education.
The government has proposed combining the two systems.
The lecturers say the intermediate system is useful for students and attracts learners from other states.
They also want first-year intermediate exams and Eapcet to continue.
They say these exams help students enter higher education.
The lecturers disagree with raising the minimum passing score to 45 percent.
They worry that more students could drop out if the score is raised.
They said they may organize protests across the state if the merger goes ahead.
The Government Junior Colleges Lecturers Association urged the government to retain intermediate education under the higher education department.
Intermediate education JAC chairman Madhusudan Reddy called for abandoning the proposed merger with school education.
The association warned it would launch a statewide agitation if the government continued with the merger proposal.
Lecturers opposed scrapping first-year intermediate exams and Eapcet, saying both are important for higher education and national entrance tests.
The association also opposed raising the minimum pass percentage to 45 per cent, warning it could increase student dropouts.
- Who
- The Government Junior Colleges Lecturers Association and the Intermediate Education JAC, led at the conference by chairman Madhusudan Reddy.
- What
- Lecturers opposed merging intermediate education with school education and demanded that it remain under the higher education department.
- When
- The demand and warnings were made on Friday.
- Where
- At a conference titled “Save Inter Education”; the article does not specify the conference location.
- Why
- The lecturers said intermediate education is valued by students from other states, and they opposed removing first-year exams and Eapcet or raising the minimum pass percentage because of concerns about higher education access and student dropouts.
Lecturers' Position
Government Proposal
Education merger
Lecturers' Position
Lecturers want intermediate education to remain separate under the higher education department and are demanding that the merger proposal be abandoned.
Government Proposal
The government has proposed merging intermediate education with school education; the articles do not state the government's reasons.
Exams and Eapcet
Lecturers' Position
The Government Junior Colleges Lecturers Association says first-year intermediate exams and Eapcet are important for higher education and national entrance tests.
Government Proposal
The association opposes proposals to scrap first-year intermediate exams and Eapcet; the articles do not provide the government's position.
Minimum pass percentage
Lecturers' Position
Lecturers oppose raising the minimum pass percentage to 45 per cent, warning that it could increase student dropouts.
Government Proposal
A 45 per cent minimum pass percentage has been proposed; the articles do not explain the government's justification or response to the dropout concern.
- Organization
- Government Junior Colleges Lecturers Association
- Demand
- Retain intermediate education as a separate entity under the higher education department
- Proposed change
- Merge intermediate education with school education
- Exams opposed to scrapping
- First-year intermediate examinations and Eapcet
- Pass percentage proposal
- Raise the minimum pass percentage to 45 per cent
- Planned response
- A statewide agitation if the merger proposal continues
- Earlier proposals
- Similar merger proposals in 1994 and 2009 were withdrawn after opposition from teachers and employees