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47 the pattern because more posts will be created at the school stage at higher levels. Even the college teachers have nothing to lose because we have insisted that in spite of a temporary setback in enrolments, there should be no retrenchment. The setback in enrolments also will be more than made up in three or four years by the natural increase in enrolments that will necessarily take place from year to year. What is even more important, the teachers in higher education will have much better job satisfaction because of the qualitatively better students that will now be entering the university system. There is also a misunderstanding that the new pattern can be implemented quickly in a year or two. This can only be disatrous. The Education Commission pointed out that a good deal of careful preparation is needed for the adoption of the new pattern and that the programme will have to be phased over a few years. This is why, in the Delhi Union Territory, it is proposed to introdule the new syllabus in Class IX in the first instance and then to revise the syllabus for subsequent standards year after year. A good deal or preparatory work is also needed to identify vocational openings appropriate to this stage, to prepare fairly reliable estimates of manpower needs or employment opportunities, to prepare the curricula and to set up the essential institutional structure for vocationalization. The preparation of teachers for the higher secondary stage is also important and will consume considerable time and resources. Due attention will have to be paid to all this preparation if the programme is to succeed and result in improvement of standards.