Lets begin CBSE learning at the beginning

Updated on: Wednesday, November 30, 2011

While trying to come to grips with the revolution in the offing in the PU syllabus, the pet chant of academicians now is: Why not introduce CBSE in government schools too?

A number of them see the fact that state students are not taught in the English medium as the root cause of all their problems in higher education. "It is this that stops state students from excelling in All-India exams," they contend.

A senior officer of the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) couldn't agree more. "While everyone is talking of introducing a CBSE syllabus after SSLC, they forget that there is no connection between the state syllabus and the Central.

Whatever a student has learnt till SSLC will not be of any help once he reaches PUC under this system. It will be a wasteful exercise. So what we need to do is opt for the Central syllabus and English medium from the very beginning and treat Kannada as a compulsory subject," he maintains.

Karnataka Unaided Schools' Management Association (KUSMA) chairman Krishna Iyer too feels that introducing a CBSE syllabus for PU courses without changing the primary and secondary syllabus will have a disastrous affect on the students.

"The CBSE syllabus is very tough. There is no similarity between it and the state syllabus," he says, appealing to the government not to take such a far reaching decision without considering all the pros and cons.

A parent, Shankar Narayan points out that CBE/ICSE students always excel in all India exams like IITJEE, AIEEE, and AIPMT.

"The state syllabus students do well only in the CET as it is conducted at the state level. But NEET-UG offers them no such scope. So it's important for the government to opt for CBSE in primary and secondary education too," he suggests.

Lets begin CBSE learning at the beginning

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