Uniform syllabus needed for all schools

Updated on: Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tambaram: To ensure quality education reaching to all sections of the society it is obligatory to have uniform syllabus in schools

Dignitaries speaking at a function organised by the State Platform for Common School System (SPCSS) to mark the release of a book titled 'Samacheer kalviyum samudhaya sezhumayum' at Jai Gopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School in East Tambaram the guest speakers urged the immediate intervention from the School Education Department and the State government to look into this crucial issue.

Ponnavaiko, Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University, said that the different syllabi followed in Tamil Nadu schools (State Board, Matric, ICSE, CBSE, among others) was felt when students went for higher education in colleges and universities.

Teachers are forced to face complex situation of tackling students coming from diverse backgrounds and who had studied different syllabi in Plus-Two. The lack of uniform syllabus and its consequences was felt little later when they land up in colleges after their schooling. Turning to English medium of instruction, that it only made students learn subjects by memory but failed to make them understand and imbibe what was taught to them said the Vice-Chancellor.

I.P. Kanagasundaram, president of SPCSS, said that two syllabi were followed in 12 States, while three others were followed in few. It was only in Tamil Nadu that six different syllabi were followed in classes between kindergarten and Plus-Two.

The dignitaries expressed their concern on who would initiate this immediate requirement of the entire nation.

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