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AND FINALLY the new draft of Kerala curriculum is out. It is coming with revolutionary suggestions and proposals for the total revamp of the way the schools are going to function in the coming days.
The Ministry of Education feels that there is no room for two types of education in Kerala, like the CBSE and state syllabus school. CBSE schools need to be shut down and when it comes to Kendriya Vidyalaya, the ministry had a soft attitude and decided not to touch them.
Actually, Kerala has three types of education; one for the kids of big shots, one for the middle class and the last one for the least important ones in the society. They are called Public schools, Private/Management schools and government schools. And they annually churn out three types of students and they are left to fend for themselves in an employment and higher education environment which allows the survival of the fittest. It is an irony that the ministry says it can do without CBSE schools.
Coming to school hours, they are going to be the same but there will be five periods of 60 minutes, not 45 minutes. And new recommendations for higher secondary curriculum include:
There will be five hours of learning. Five days a week for schools and six days a week of higher secondary section.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) has flayed the State Government decision to sanction unaided CBSE schools in educationally backward areas.
KSSP president T.P. Kunhikannan and general secretary C.M. Muraleedharan said here on Tuesday that the order issued by the General Education Department created the impression that CBSE schools were better equipped than the school curriculum in Kerala to remove the backwardness of the northern districts where the proposal was to be implemented first. This, they said, was a flawed approach to the problem.
The Parishad leaders said the Government move would undermine the general education sector in Kerala and
Former Kerala irrigation and forests minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan feels that self-financing educational courses have come to stay not only in Kerala but other states of India also.
The senior Congress legislator was speaking at a gathering held at Doha Grand Hotel on Saturday evening. The event was organised by Indian Cultural and Arts Society (Incas) in association with Alukkas Jewellery as part of its annual Merit Evening.
Radhakrishnan said it was the excessive spending on education by the consecutive governments in the last four decades since the formation of Kerala that prompted the previous state government to liberalise the sanctioning of self-financing
Malayalam mandatory up to Std IV from next academic year
In a controversial decision, the General Education Department has issued an order making it mandatory to teach Malayalam in all schools in the State up to Standard IV from next academic year.
The order was issued in view of the yearlong celebrations of the 50th year of the formation of Kerala State.
The State Government has directed the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) to develop suitable textbooks and curriculum for teaching Malayalam up to Standard IV.
The order comes close on the heels of an order issued by the Karnataka
CHENNAI : Someone like President Kalam would have loved to be there. Nearly 150 students from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry gathered at Chettinad Vidyashram here on Saturday to exhibit their projects under the theme `Science and Technology for Rural Development.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) organised the regional-level science exhibition for students of classes IX to XII, of nearly 50 schools. Around 65 projects on various topics including environmental management, industries and rural development, landmarks in science, information and communication technology in education were exhibited.
Arun Nair and Sinu Asha Thomas of New Man Central School, Adoor,
Around 2500 athletes including 500 girls would be seen in action when the CBSE National Athletic Meet begins at the Maharaja's Synthetic Track, here from January 4.
The five-day event being hosted by Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Vaduthala in Ernakulam, is coming to Kerala, for the first time, Maya Mohan, Principal, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Vaduthala, told mediapersons here today.
Besides children from India, participants from six countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman will also take part in the meet, which will get over on January 8.
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