Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the powers and duties of the Board shall be as follows, namely:— (1) to advise the State Government on reference made to it or on its own motion on matters of policy relating to secondary education 1[ and higher secondary education] in general, and on the following matters in particular, namely:— (a) evolution of suitable patterns of secondary education; 1[and higher secondary education. (b) prescription and maintenance of educational standards for such patterns of secondary education 1[and higher secondary education]; (c) intergration of national and State policy in respect of secondary education 1[and higher secondary education]; (d) matters pertaining to educational planning, programme and organisation; (2) to recommend to the State Government the curricula and detailed syllabi relating to secondary education 2[and higher secondary education] and to approve and to recommend the State Government the text books prepared by the Gujarat State Board of School Text Books for the use in the registered schools; (3) to organise programmes to re-train teachers already in service; (4) to prescribe measures for promotion of physical, moral, and social welfare of, and for inculcation of spirit of discipline among students in registered schools and to prescribe standards of conditions of residence to be provided in hostels; (5) to guide and help registered schools in their search for talent and their endeavour to lead them to peaks of excellence; (6) to permit and encourage a registered school to carry out useful educa- tional experiments and research in secondary education 2[ and higher secondary education] and to prescribe the conditions subject to which such experiments and research shall be carried out; (7) to prescribe conditions to be fulfilled by the manager of a secondary school 3[or higher secondary school] for getting the school registered; (8) to recommend to the State Government a cut in maintenance grant if after giving a reasonalbe opportunity of being heard to the management of the school, the Board is of opinion that a registered school, has failed to observe any of the conditions of registration or that a registered school is conducted in a manner which is prejudicial to the interests of education or has failed to carry out any instruc- tions issued by the Board to ensure maintenance of academic standards in secondary education 2[and higher secondary education]; (9) to conduct statistical and other research for the purpose of evaluation and reform of the curricula, instruction and examination and to guide registered schools in conducting such research; (10) to lay down standards for testing students, for conducting examinations and for promotion of students from one standard to the next higher standard of a registered school;