Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Where is TN education system heading to?

At last the "Samacheerkalvi" has been in place after the Supreme court order. Is it the right? Is the syllabus is in competing with CBSE? Can we expect the kids will gain knowledge through the existing system?

There are different thoughts among parents. Many gave the comment that the syllabus is nowhere near the CBSE or Matriculation syllabus. It is two grade lower compared to the CBSE/Matriculation syllabus.

I was comparing the syllabus of two subjects Maths and Science. Maths syllabus was ok, but Science (which is core) is having very less content and in fact it is three grades lower than the CBSE. I just compared the syllabus only. The content and the type of evaluation are other factors that are entirely different topic.

Already the college education system is in a worst shape whereas the students are wasting three/four years of their life in reading subjects that are not at all helping their future life. If the basic education also in that direction, then it is going to be tough time for the kids.

In AP, more schools are becoming CBE in rural areas and the standard of the students in villages are improving. But in TN, we are doing the other way by bringing down the town/city students’ standard and we are keeping the village schools standard same. This is going to affect the next generation greatly.

In the present system there were very few students entering into IITs from TN. Last year we had only 200+ students from TN qualified for IITs where as 1500 + students got IITs from AP. There are other factors behind this count. Even then the number of students entering IIT from AP is 7 imes more than from TN.

TN had a poor performance in service commission exams few years back and now the trend has changed. In the recent years it has been changed. More people are getting top ranks in the service commission exams. The credit goes to few individuals/private centers that train and encourage students at free of cost or affordable cost. We hope the same will happen to our school education also.

Now most of the Matriculation teachers are uncomfortable with the syllabus and many of the managements are thinking of alternative. Mostly they will move from Matriculation system to CBSE. I feel in the next couple of years many schools will apply for the CBSE board and will move to CBSE system of education.

Saravanan

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