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  • AP tech colleges, council differ over cut-off marks.

    The AICTE head made it clear that all the engineering colleges should reserve up to five per cent seats for economically backward students.

    The chairman of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Prof. S.S. Mantha, was cornered by the managements of private engineering colleges over the new norms at an interactive session held at JNTUKukatpally on Saturday.

    While Prof. Mantha said the 50 per cent cut off marks in 10+2 is compulsory for engineering admissions from this year irrespective of the Eamcet rank, the college managements said this rule will push hundreds of colleges into crisis. They pointed out that already 95,000 seats remained vacant out of 2.8 lakh seats available in the state, and the new cut-off norm will further aggravate the problem. He also made it clear that all the engineering colleges should reserve up to five per cent of their seats for students from economically backward classes from this year. The managements also opposed this norm.
    Moreover, they found fault with the AICTE for insisting on the managements to implement the revised pay scales for faculty and for effecting steep increase in processing fee for various administrative works without addressing the “low tuition fee structure” implemented in AP.

    “The fee for engineering courses in AP is `31,000 per annum, which is the lowest in the country. With this meagre amount, you want us to maintain world-class standards. You want us to implement revised pay scales for faculty. When you are so particular about quality, you should also ensure that we are paid fees accordingly,” said Mr Madhusudhan Rao, a representative of engineering college.

    Source : DC

  • English subject to be introduced from class 1

    Government will bring out a book to assist teachers, says Primary Education Minister

    Thousands of children leaving government schools due to absence of English medium: Sailajanath

    ‘Private schools without infrastructure attracting students showing English as bait’

    HYDERABAD: World’s uniting language — English — will now reverberate in the classrooms of government schools from class one from the ensuing academic year.

    Primary Education Minister S. Sailajanath said that the government had decided to introduce English as a subject from class one itself from 2011-12 academic year and efforts were on to streamline the procedures involved in it. “We can’t keep socially and economically backward children away from the subject and it will be injustice if the government can’t provide the education which people want,” he told The Hindu.

    Teachers already trained

    Mr. Sailajanath, however, doesn’t see any administrative or academic problems for the decision to be implemented in such a short time. He feels teachers are already trained to teach English at that level. All that students would be exposed is to English alphabets and a few words. “We will also bring out a book to assist teachers,” he said. In fact, he has already got some books from Kerala and Maharashtra and these student-friendly books will be the base for the books to be published for our State children.

    Explaining what prompted him to take an immediate decision, he said thousands of children were leaving government schools due to the absence of English medium. Though English medium has been introduced from 5 {+t} {+h} class, he says dropout can be contained at the lower level if English is introduced from first class. Lot of private schools without infrastructure or trained teachers are attracting these children showing English subject as bait. “When we have presence in all the villages with decent infrastructure and trained teachers we can offer better teaching almost free of cost,” he said.

    Social respect

    The popular mood among the villagers is also to make their children learn English due to the social respect they gain learning the language and also the additional benefits like easy transformation from school to college. “Thanks to information explosion, parents are aware of the opportunities available due to good education and also English,” the Minister reminds. Apart from the social responsibility, the government apparently is also of the view that many students at the higher level are facing problems due to lack of English language skills and this move will solve the issue permanently.

    Source :     The Hindu

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