I am feeling sorry for the students of India burdened with intellectual workload

There has been discussions on reducing the learning burden of school kids; but the learning burden is just increasing. This is because the educational administrators, the teachers, the parents, and the public are aimless on the goals of the education system.

The school curriculum is framed by educationalists who are 'arm chair intellectuals'. They are not economists, psychologists, sociologists or planners. They are just teachers who have been teaching all the time and know nothing else other than teaching. So they follow what has been followed traditionally. They do not have the capacity to think what the society needs.

Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011

Teacher Education Career is Road to Doom!!

Never think of becoming a teacher educator if you are not rich enough to pay donation at a private aided college for getting a lecturer post. Out of some 230 B.Ed colleges in the Kerala State 17 are aided colleges 4 are government colleges and the rest 90% are in private/self financing sector, meaning teaching shops.

Chances of getting job in government college is less; only state government school teachers who have qualifications manage to get it; they are given priority in appointment.

In the aided colleges that are run by religious institutions mostly they look at your caste and religion besides the amount of money you would give as 'donation', which should be several lakhs; means these posts are reserved for the rich and powerful.

Most likely one is likely to get employed in a private or self financing institution with monthly pay not more that what a mason or carpenter gets. And you could loose your job even if you go for maternity leave. You are not a teacher or a human; you are a product, a commodity -a factor that decides whether the institution will be profitable or not.

Never pursue M.Ed or PhD in Education; Look before you Leap. You career could be doomed and you will find yourself crying the whole life if you think that teacher education as a noble career and decide to pursue it. Study what happens to the teacher educators before you choose the career

Kerala State Syllabus 9th Std. student learning computer..stupid computer education

I had written in this blog before that Information Technology curriculum is created in a most ridiculous manner, with students forced to cram up stuff. 

Instead of taking a person into a pond to teach swimming, what nonsense it would be to ask him to write an essay on how to swim!! 

Computer education make students hate computers.. this should not be the way to administer computer education.

Following are the photos of a 9th Std. student learning computers for half yearly exam:

Who will save our Education System?

Who will save our kids from the BORES who frame the syllabus and execute it blindly and deafly?

Kerala 8th Std. Social Science Question Paper: shameful and pathetic ignorance of question setters

See the poor English used here. Kerala school children are unlucky to have these sub-standard persons as their teachers. There is something wrong with the teacher recruitment and teacher training.

The pathetic English used in Std. 8 State Syllabus half yearly exam question paper...

See instead of 'half yearly exam' it is 'half year exam''; what is this 'cool of time'? Why it is not "Std. VIII" instead of "std VIII"?

please see question 7 (c)

"can a person standing a point B? Why?"

what sort of English is this?

Even the typist who typed this question paper does not know that a sentence should start with capital letter and that a full stop should be adjacent to last letter of a line.
ഇതിനെ 'അബദ്ധപഞ്ചാംഗം' എന്നൊക്കെ വിളിക്കാമോ എന്നറിയില്ല. മൊത്തം തെറ്റുകള്‍. ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വ്യാകരണം, ടൈപ്പിംഗ്‌, എല്ലാം തെറ്റാണ് എന്ന് മാത്രമല്ല  കുട്ടികളുടെ നിലവാരം അനുസരിച്ചല്ല ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ ഇട്ടിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഒന്നാമത്തെ ചോദ്യം തന്നെ എട്ടാം ക്ലാസ്സിലെ കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് ചേര്‍ന്നതല്ല എന്ന അഭിപ്രായം ആണ് എനിക്കുള്ളത്. 

Q.2. The sentence should have started with capital 'W'. It would be better if '..services of a commercial bank' instead of 'services of commercial bank' is used

Mumbai school 'asks' students to buy iPads

Computer Education in schools -making students hate computers

Ever since I bought my PC at home, I had got addicted to computers. Purchasing a laptop later and getting a broadband connection actually made me more and more addicted. I had a hundred things to do with computers.

I have been using MS Office run in MS Windows and have been quite happy with these programs. Lately, I am using cloud software such as Google documents for most of my works. It is so comfortable.
I never used programs like LOGO or Ubundu. Just heard of it. I didn't want to switch over. But when I see my school kids forced to learn these programs though they are not likely to use it ever, I feel sorry for them. Some ideology crazy leftists might have mooted this idea of free software in school education. School kids are learning something to satisfy the ideological perceptions of these so called intellectuals. Why shouldn't we teach students something that the whole world is using? Why do we want to start our experiments and ideological acrobats with poor school kids?

The computer education is designed in most crazy manner. School kids are fond of games and umpteen interesting computer software and the net.  They just need to be given opportunity to use the computer and the broadband and given guidance on how to search the net and find information. Many software are so user friendly that kids will learn not only computer usage but also their curricular subjects also using computes and broadband net. But they are being tortured by designing a computer curriculum that forces them to cram up day to day operations in the computers. It is like teaching them how to swim by making them cram up statements like 'first lift your right hand, force water backwards, hold your breath, beat your legs in the water..." and make them write exams on this; instead of taking them to water and guide them how to swim. The school computer education is rubbish in concept and design.

Private / Self financing teachers must start strike against low pay

Nurses all over India has started strikes against exploitation by hospital managements. It is time that private school teachers and private college teachers and B.Ed college teachers too started fighting against exploitation and low salaries

NCTE is a lame duck; B.Ed mafia is unassailable

We have a national council called National Council for Teacher Education. Teacher education institutions are supposed to get its approval for running their institutions. And NCTE has created many dos and don'ts and documents for setting standards of teacher education institutions. At one point of time it appeared that it will be effective. Later on the B.Ed college management mafia seems to have usurped them and had their upper hand. Now they are free to appoint teacher educators (B.Ed faculty) without NET (National Eligibility Test) and pay meager remuneration to the teachers and bypass almost all the NCTE norms.

And the funniest thing is that a B.Ed college actually do not need NCTE approvals. It can even function without that. Because NCTE is not giving degree certificates to B.Ed colleges, Universities do that. And the Universities do not have any problem in granting B.Ed certificates to the students from institutions not approved by NCTE. So students too have no problem studying in unapproved institutions. There is no Law here. Universities are also making money out of self financing B.Ed colleges directly run by them. And the profits from these institutions come from the underpayment of faculty members- the persons who are supposed to be crucial players in imparting teacher education.

Thus, since the interests of private B.Ed mafia and the Universities coincide. Government is in their hands, because most of the private institutions are run by so called minority institutions. Minorities are politically powerful than the majorities in places like Kerala. So the government is also closing its eyes to the violations of NCTE norms. And the NCTE has no tooth and nails to enforce its norms. Besides, the B.Ed mafia is said to be bribing NCTE teams or spread the rumour that this is happening. Altogether, it is the teacher educators, the B.Ed faculty who are suffering. And the State as a whole. B.Ed colleges function like teaching shops, with a bunch of demotivated educators who can't even win their bread and butter from this occupation!

"അച്ഛാ, ഹാര്‍ട്ടിന്റെ വലിപ്പം എത്രയ"

എട്ടാം ക്ലാസില്‍ പഠിക്കുന്ന മോള്‍ ചോദിക്കുന്നു: "അച്ഛാ, ഹാര്‍ട്ടിന്റെ വലിപ്പം എത്രയ". സൂക്കേട്‌ മനസ്സിലായി എനിക്ക്. ഏതോ ജെനെറല്‍ നോലെട്ജ് പരീക്ഷ കഴിഞ്ഞു വരികയാണ്‌. ചോദ്യം സെറ്റ് ചെയ്ത പൊട്ടന്‍ മാഷിന്റെ ബുദ്ധിയില്‍ ഉദിച്ച ചോദ്യമാണിത്; മാഷ് ഏതോ ബുക്കോ ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ്‌ ഓ നോക്കി കണ്ടെടുത്തതാവാം. എന്തിനാണ് എട്ടാം ക്ലാസിലെ കുട്ടി ഹാര്‍ട്ടിന്റെ വലിപ്പം അറിയുന്നത് എന്ന് എത്ര ആലോചിച്ചിട്ടും പിടി കിട്ടിയില്ല. അതിനു ഉത്തരം എഴുതാത്ത കുട്ടി വിചാരിക്കുന്നത് അവള്‍ അത് പടിക്കഞ്ഞത് എന്തോ അവളുടെ കുറവാണു എന്നാണു. ഞാന്‍ പറഞ്ഞു: 'മോളെ, ജെനറല്‍ നോലെട്ജ് പടിക്കലെ; സമയം വേസ്റ്റ് ആക്കല്ലേ; അത് സമുദ്രം പോലെ കിടക്കുന്ന വിഷയം ആണ്; കര കാണാ കടല്‍. ആര്‍ക്കും എല്ലാ വിവരവും സ്വന്തം ആക്കാന്‍ പറ്റില്ല. ജെനറല്‍ നോലെട്ജ് എന്ന് വിളിച്ചു ഓരോരോ ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ എറിയുന്ന വിദ്വാന്‍ കുട്ടികളെ പറ്റിക്കുകയാണ്. ഇതൊക്കെ പഠിച്ചു അവര്‍ക്ക് ജോലി ഒന്നും കിട്ടാന്‍ പോകുന്നില്ല ഭാവിയില്‍. ജീവിതത്തിനു ആവശ്യമാ എന്തെങ്കിലും പഠിക്കാന്‍ ഉള്ള നേരത്ത് വേണ്ടാത്ത അറിവുകള്‍ കുത്തി കയറ്റാന്‍ ആണ് ചില കപട ബുദ്ധി ജീവികള്‍ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നത്. സമയം വിലപെട്ടതാണ്.

ജെനറല്‍ നോലെട്ജ് എന്ന് പറയുന്നത് സീരിയല്‍ കാണുന്നതിനെ കാളും കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് ദ്രോഹം ചെയ്യുന്ന ഒന്നാണ്. ഐ.യെ.എസ എഴുതാന്‍ പോകുന്നെങ്കില്‍ നോക്കിക്കൊള്ളൂ..എന്നാലും എന്തെങ്കിലും ഒരു ന്യായമായ വിവര മേഖലയില്‍ മാത്രമേ സമയം ചിലവഴിക്കാവൂ. ക്വിസ് മാസ്റ്റര്‍ എന്ന ദുഷ്ട ബുദ്ധി കുട്ടികള്‍ക്കായി ഒരുക്കി വച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന സമയം കൊള്ളിക്കു പിറകില്‍ പോവരുത്. ജെനറല്‍ നോലെട്ജ് എന്നതിനും വേണം ഒരു അതിര്‍ വരമ്പ്. ഒരു കരികുലം. എന്തും ചോദിച്ചു കുട്ടികളെ ബുദ്ധി മുട്ടിക്കുന്നത് എന്തിനാണ്. നിങ്ങളുടെ 'വിവരം' പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കാനോ? അതോ സാടിസ്സമോ?

International seminar on Teacher Education for Peace and Harmony

Feb 11 to 13, 2012 at New Delhi

Details can be had from http://www.iaseve.org.in/

Survey on Standard of Education in India_ Delhi News - By Indiaedunews

"Teachers of teachers Shall Starve" India's pathetic treatment of teacher educators

With no comments, again from the KSEB pavilion at Kollam Fest

General Knowledge should be defined

"All the knowledge in this world" is at present termed as General Knowledge. Or is it "the information collected by the General Knowledge textbook writer" or "the information sought by the person who sets the questions"

How can anybody, let alone a child, study every knowledge 'under the Sun' and above the Sun and be prepared for the questions to come? The child who has learned the questions that the questioning person asks (most probably the person asks information contained in some GK textbook) wins a GK test. 

It is simply stupid.

Why should a school child know the capitals of all the countries in this world? There is only a tiny probability that he would ever use it or need it. Of course, he may need to know the important capitals, say, 20 or 30 countries... but not more...definitely not. But the GK test and textbooks would contain a list of all the countries in this world and their capitals.

Likewise, most of the questions asked to a child in the General Knowledge tests are irrelevant and unwanted. This trend creates a situation where the urban child and the middle class child faces heavy pressure from its parents to learn GK and face the sorrow of failing in the tests. General Knowledge is included in many tests for recruitment and also admission to higher education.

The educational administrators of the state and centre must realise that even General Knowledge must have a definite contents. It is cruel to expect the candidates to learn every knowledge in this universe. It is practically impossible for any human to do that and neither is it necessary. Pressure on individuals to learn excess of information will lead to wastage of huge quantity of man hours spent on learning all these irrelevant things. 

We should define essential and non-essential things. The textbook makers and curriculum makers must act responsibly. It is time that they realise the practical aspects of education

Nigerians know better about teacher education than Kapil Sibal

Education reform should begin with teacher education

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/features/31437-education-reform-should-begin-with-teacher-education-

Written by Kehinde AdioFriday, 18 November 2011

HUMAN capital development process  originated from teacher education where trainers are trained to produce quality future leaders. Based on this established fact, the need to develop and promote constructive teacher training colleges cannot be overemphasised both in the developed and developing countries like Nigeria.

The Provost, Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, Dr Emmanuel Adeniyi, belongs to the school of thought that shares the opinion that  unless  education reform begins from colleges of education, the purpose of the reform may not be achieved .  This is because  the quality of  teachers determines the quality of the  end products of primary and secondary schools that proceed  to the tertiary institutions for professional training in various fields.

In a chat with the Nigerian Tribune recently, Dr Adeniyi expressed dissatisfaction over  the non-challant attitude of Nigerians   towards  the teaching profession and the colleges of education where they are being produced. According to him, people seem to forget that  all other professions in the economy ; lawyers, medical doctors, pilots and the rest of them,  must  pass through the teacher at their primary and secondary school levels.

“ Then, if we mean business with our education reform in the country, let us start the reform process from the teachers and the colleges where they are being trained.

First and foremost, To attracts able hands and brilliant students in the profession, the profession must be made attractive with good remunerations, good welfare packages and other incentive for their retention attraction in the profession. Moreover, the colleges where they receive the training must be well equipped in terms of teaching facilities, conducive learning environment,  with scholarship and other learning incentives for the students.

ബി.എഡ് കച്ചവടം. യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റികള്‍ ആധുനിക മോതലാളിമാര്‍ !!

 യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റികള്‍  ആധുനിക മോതലാളിമാര്‍ !! സ്വകാര്യ മോതലളിമാര്‍ക്ക് അധ്യാപകരെ ചൂഷണം ചെയ്തു ലാഭം ഉണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ സഹായിക്കുന്ന ബുദ്ധികേന്ദ്രങ്ങള്‍!!
ഗുരുക്കന്മാരുടെ ഗുരുക്കന്മാര്‍ എന്നാല്‍ ബി.എഡ് കോളേജ് അധ്യാപകര്‍. അവരോ കൂലി തൊഴിലാളികള്‍. യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റികളുടെയും സ്വകാര്യ മോതലളിമാരുടെയും മതസ്ഥാപനങ്ങളുടെയും കൂടെ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്ന അധ്യാപക തൊഴിലാളികള്‍ 

വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ കച്ചവടം എന്നാലെന്ത്? വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം വില്‍ക്കുക..കോഴി കച്ചവടം പോലെ... ലക്‌ഷ്യം ലാഭം മാത്രം.

ബി.എഡ് കോളേജുകള്‍ നടത്തിയാല്‍ മതി. ഗുരുക്കന്മാരെ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഗുരുക്കന്മാരെ തുച്ചമായ കൂലിക്ക് കിട്ടാനുണ്ട്.

അവര്‍ക്ക് ശമ്പള വര്ധനവോ, ഡി.എ ഒന്നും കൊടുക്കേണ്ട.. എന്തെങ്കിലും കുറച്ചു കൊടുത്താല്‍ മതി..
പവിത്രത എന്നാ വാക്കിന്റെ അര്‍ഥം അറിയില്ല. ഗുരുത്വാകര്‍ഷണം എന്നാല്‍ എന്തെന്ന് അറിയാം, ഗുരുത്തം എന്നാല്‍ എന്താണ് എന്നറിയില്ല.

അല്ലെങ്കിലും ഗുരുകുല സമ്പ്രദായം ഒക്കെ കഴിഞ്ഞില്ലേ മാഷെ എന്നാകും മറുപടി.

പണ്ട് വിദ്യ കിട്ടാന്‍ അത്ര എളുപ്പം അല്ലായിരുന്നു. ഗുരുവിനെ തേടി അലയണം, പറയുന്നതെന്തും ദക്ഷിണ വയ്ക്കണം, ബ്രാഹ്മണ അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ ക്ഷത്രിയ കുലത്തില്‍ ജനിച്ചിരിക്കണം..അങ്ങിനെ പല കടമ്പകള്‍ കടന്നാലേ ഗുരുവിനെ കിട്ടൂ..

ഇന്നോ?

ഗുരുക്കന്മാര്‍ ശിഷ്യരെ തേടി അവരുടെ പിറകെ നടക്കുന്നു. പൈസ തരൂ, പഠിപ്പിച്ചു തരാം. ഏറ്റവും പൈസ കിട്ടുന്ന, ജോലി കിട്ടുന്ന തൊഴില്‍ പഠിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ കൂടുതല്‍ പൈസ..
ഇനി ഗുരുക്കന്മാര്‍ അങ്ങിനെ ചെന്നാല്‍ ഒന്നും ശിഷ്യരെ കിട്ടില്ല. ഏതെങ്കിലും മൊതലാളീടെ കൂടെ കൂടണം. മൊതലാളിക്കു   മാത്രമേ സ്ഥാപനം തുടങ്ങാന്‍ പൈസ ഉള്ളൂ. അവര്‍ക്ക് മാത്രമേ അംഗീകാരം കിട്ടൂ.. അപ്പൊ ഗുരുക്കന്മാരുടെ നില പരുങ്ങലില്‍ ആയി. മൊതലാളി ശിഷ്യര്‍ തരുന്ന പൈസ മുഴുവന്‍ അടിച്ചു മാറ്റും. എന്തെങ്കിലും കുറച്ചു ഗുരുവിനും കൊടുക്കും.
ഗുരുക്കന്മാര്‍ക്ക് കഷ്ടകാലമാണ്.. പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും പൈസ ഇല്ലാത്ത ഗുരുക്കന്മാര്‍ക്ക്. എയിടെഡ് കോളേജില്‍ പൈസ കൊടുത്താല്‍ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ശമ്പളം കിട്ടും. പെന്‍ഷനും കിട്ടും. വേണമെങ്കില്‍ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിലും ചേരാം. സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ കോളേജില്‍ പടിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിനെക്കാള്‍ സുഖം..ന്യൂന പക്ഷക്കാര്‍ക്ക് കുറെ കോളേജുകള്‍ ഉണ്ട്. അവര് പള്ളീം രാഷ്ട്രീയോം ഒക്കെ ആയി ഖജനാവിന്റെ പങ്കു പറ്റും.അതിനുള്ള സാമര്‍ത്ഥ്യം അവര്‍ക്കുണ്ട്. അവരുടെ കൂടെ കൂടിയാല്‍ ചിലപ്പോ നല്ലൊരു ഗുരു ജോലി തരാവും..

തൊണ്ണൂറു ശതമാനം ഗുരുക്കന്മാരും ഇപ്പൊ ഗുരുക്കികള്‍ ആണ്.. സ്ത്രീകള്‍..ഉന്നത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം സ്ത്രീകള്‍ക്ക് കിട്ടി തുടങ്ങീട്ടു കാലം കുറെ ആയി. ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ഒന്നും പോകാന്‍ പറ്റില്ലാലോ..സ്ത്രീയായി പോയില്ലേ.. എന്നാല്‍ വീട്ടില്‍ ഇരിക്കാനും പറ്റില്ല. എന്തെങ്കിലും ജോലി കിട്ടിയാലേ ഇന്നത്തെ കാലത്ത് ജീവിക്കാന്‍ പറ്റൂ..അപ്പൊ ഗുരു പണി തന്നെ ഉള്ളൂ.. അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ പിന്നെ സ്ത്രീകള്‍ മിക്കവരും നഗരം ശുചിയാക്കുന്ന പണിയില്‍ ആണ്... അതൊക്കെ സ്ത്രീകളുടെ പണിയാണല്ലോ പണ്ടേ..

ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ പോകാന്‍ പറ്റാത്ത ഉന്നത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം ഉള്ള സ്ത്രീകള്‍ ഇഷ്ടം പോലെ.. മോതലാളിമാര്‍ക്ക് വിദ്യ കച്ചോടം പൊടി പൊടിക്കാം... കുറച്ചു ശമ്പളം കൊടുത്താല്‍ മതി..പെണ്ണുങ്ങള്‍ അല്ലെ..പിന്നെ ഇവറ്റകള്‍ക്ക് യൂണിയനും ഇല്ല..എത്ര വേണമെങ്കിലും കിട്ടും..പെന്‍ഷനും മെടിക്കളും ഒന്നും കൊടുക്കണ്ട. കഴുതകളെ പോലെ എന്തും ചെയ്തോളും..പിന്നെ ഇവറ്റകളെ മേക്കാന്‍ ഒരു സെക്ഷന്‍ ആപ്പീസറെ വച്ചാല്‍ മതി.. പണ്ട് പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പല്‍ ആയിരുന്നു സ്ഥാപനത്തിന്റെ തലവന്‍. ഇന്ന് ക്ലാര്‍ക്കന്മാര്‍ മതി. ഗുരുക്കന്മാര്‍ തെണ്ടി പരിഷകളെ മേക്കാന്‍ ഇവരെ പറ്റൂ..ഇപ്പൊ അങ്ങിനെയ

വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ കച്ചവടം എന്നാല്‍ അധ്യാപകരെ ചൂഷണം ചെയ്തു മുതല്‍ ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്ന കച്ചവടം എന്ന് വേണം മനസ്സിലാക്കാന്‍ 

Education sector must not dwell in dreamland

A society functions only when it consists of people skilled in a variety of professions and there are workers.

Our school curriculum is designed by 'armchair intellectuals' who have no idea what a society is.

Majority of Indians are employed as agriculture labourers, industrial workers, drivers, small shopkeepers, craftsmen, artists, skilled labourers, in construction industry etc.

Is our school curriculum suitable to such people?
Why should curriculum makers assume that the ultimate aim of every child is to become doctors, engineers and managers?

The school curriculum presently creates a competition for the top posts...Why these posts are considered top?

Because you don't need much physical work, and a lot of opportunity to become rich. But a doctor or engineer cannot become that rich in his lifetime. Only businessmen can. If a doctor or engineer become rich in his profession, it is because either he is doing business ..selling his profession.. which is business. Being a government servant if he becomes rich then he must be involved in corruption

If the minimum wages of other professions are raised and enforced then many other professions are equally attractive as the most coveted ones at present.

The curriculum load must be reduced and modified to suit the future of the child, the profession he is going to enter.

At present school curriculum makes manual labour a shameful thing. Only intellectual power is considered worth in school system. And the school kills the attitude towards work in school children and make them feel that doing manual labour is shameful, while becoming a manager who get things done is something great..

Teach students skilled labour and unskilled labour

Most of the population is going to be labourers.. not owners of businesses, not engineers or doctors or IAS..

Most students when they grow up will be unemployed with high qualifications. And due to competition in the white collar fields and the tendency of government agencies to exploit, and rather show the private sector the ways to exploit, most educated people working in the private sector will be earning less than skilled labourers and even unskilled labourers.

By making children sit in the classrooms for hours and hours listening to boring teachers the students when they grow up, are physically weak. They cannot do any manual labour. Their enthusiasms are suppressed in the classrooms. They will be good only to work as white collar employees.

In Kerala, the Universities and the Government shows the way to exploit and maximise profits. School and college teachers, engineers and other educated people are appointed on contract basis and paying them pittance. The amount saved by squeezing out these educated people is the profit of the Universities and the government departments.

A skilled labourer gets Rs.500/- per day in Kerala. A principal in a B.Ed college too gets Rs.15,000/- per month even after decades of teaching experience and qualifications as high as double postgraduation and doctorate.

It is better to teach skilled labour in schools. Let students become strong enough and skilled enough to work as labourers. Give respect to labour. Rather than getting exploited as white collar employees, it would be better to learn less from these exploiters and start working ...

Mad teachers created state syllabus

Many researches seemed to have found that school curriculum should improve critical thinking in students.. to save the world from population turning idiots. Many researchers cooked up data that was never collected from the field and proved that critical thinking is must for children. And there are still some 'enlightened' souls who set out to write text books to improve critical thinking.

State syllabus text books are shabby in appearance (newsprint quality books with dirty grey pictures). They provide examples for how not to print books. Everywhere in the world school kids are provided colourful books that are attractive and provide them enthusiasm to learning. But in Kerala they education bosses have managed to make it the worst books in ones cupboard.

The contents are crazy. Not knowing how to create contents for improving thinking abilities, the textbook authors filled the books with endless number of questions, and 'practical' experiments. A chapter on respiration in IX Std. English medium is full of hard words describing respiratory system that a child is never going to use in her life unless she chooses a medical career..

Why should children be loaded with irrelevant contents? The textbook writers and so called educationists have made the life of child miserable. Instead of reducing burden they have added burden.. heaps of it.. they did not discard the old classical method of learning words by heart. In addition to by heart learning the child now has not been provided information in the textbooks. They have to run from pillar to post to fetch information..

Many students do not have computers and internet at home. Those who have these facilities have upper hand. There are umpteen projects to be done. Those who have computers cut and paste the pics and present.

A student of 8th std. is asking "what is the difference between sting variable and numerical variable?" Why should that kid know this sort of intricacies? There are so many thing in information technology that are soft in nature and essential for life that kids need to know before they learn 'string variable and numerical variable'.

The curriculum is designed in such a way as to create hatred for subjects in the minds of children and to torture the children. The so called educationalists who have got doctorate degrees cooking up false data can relax with plum salaries and little work.

The magic of google translate -a great language learning tool for students

For parents, teachers and teacher educators information... your teaching burden is greatly reduced from now on... Google Translate is here
Recently I came across Google Translate and I was astounded by its power..


I wrote in English "I want a cup of tea" and Google Translate gave me "मैं एक कप चाय चाहिए" 

I wrote "let me go to school" and the translation was "मुझे स्कूल जाना"


"the teacher taught me Hindi" was translated to "शिक्षक ने मुझे हिंदी सिखाया"


If we press a small icon of audio in the right corner we can listen to what is translated through a voice synthesiser.


It is a great tool for students and elders to learn Hindi..and any language


Unfortunately Google Translate is not available in Malayalam language yet.


I wonder whether we need to study any more language in the future. Companies are likely to bring out translation gadgets that will translate what we say, into any other language of our choice.. be it Russian, German, Spanish.. Bengali..anything. The day is not far when we will speak in our mother toungue and gadgets attached to us will speak through a speaker in a different language.. We will thus be able to communicate with anyone in this world in their language without learning their language..

try yourself ... :)http://translate.google.com/

J J Thompson, Rutherford School physics

J J Thomson discovered electrons and found that they are negatively charged particles. This video explains clearly the experiment performed by Thomson.

For cathode rays to be produced
i. There should be vacuum in the tube
ii. There should be high voltage in the tube 10 KVa to 20 KVa

The cathode rays consists of
1.negatively charged particles
2. travels in a straight line
3. speed is near to speed of light
4. when stike a heavy metal object X-rays are produced
5. Deflected towards positive charge
6. Deflected by magnetic field
7. Casts shadow when an opaque object is placed in its path

Google Apps for Education: A useful tool

Google Apps is a free email and collaboration tool

It can be accessed from http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/

An FAQ from the website is reproduced here



What is Google Apps for Education?

Google is currently offering schools a hosted solution for their email, calendar, and chat through Google Apps for Education, our integrated communication and collaboration solution. Additionally, you can complement the core suite to meet your users' needs, with access to dozens more Google applications.
Core Google Apps for Education suite includes:

• Gmail: Email storage and search tools that help your students find information fast and instant messaging from right inside their accounts.
• Google Calendar: Students can organize their schedules and share events and calendars with others.
• Google Talk: Students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world
• Google Docs: Share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
• Google Sites: Work together to keep related documents, web content and other information in one place, on one site.
• Google Video for education: A video hosting and sharing solution that enables schools and other organizations to use video as an effective medium for internal communication and collaboration.

Interactive Whiteboards are latest classroom technology

Please watch this video.It is a demonstration of an Interactive whiteboard. It is useful in classrooms, seminar rooms. It can reduce teacher's work and improve teaching much better by providing multimedia experience.

90% of UGC qualified B.Ed teachers are paid salaries only an fraction of what the rest 10% get

"There is something grotesque about the idea that 1 percent of the nation controls more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined. There is something pitiful about the idea that the bottom 90 has endured economic exploitation in silence for years."

Occupy Wall Street is a protest against economic exploitation.
Teachers in the private/ self financing institutions are facing similar situation..

Read: http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Occupy-Wall-Street-can-bring-about-systemic-2227066.php


90% of UGC qualified B.Ed college teachers are paid salaries only an fraction of what the rest 10% get every month. And they are deprived of promotions even after years and years of teaching experience..

The academic people are selfishly promoting exploitation and inequality. It is time that occupy wall street model agitations are launched here also....


Aided educational institutions sell teaching posts for lakhs of rupees... It is daylight robbery and blatant corruption.

Notification B.Ed center teachers on contract basis calicut university

LECTURERS ARE SO CHEAP HERE...
THIS IS THE REAL GOD'S OWN COUNTRY!

Letter to Kerala University Authorities

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10P1JeJCTuNUiIlr29QzH9y9tgEwT0P7i-Eh0umwXIoc/edit?hl=en_US

Low salaries to teachers and teacher education part of gender exploitation

Until recently the PWD Schedule of Rates had two items of workers -man mazdoor and woman mazdoor.. Man mazdoor carried a rate of Rs.140 per day and woman mazdoor Rs.120 per day. Some intervention did take place and at present in the Schedule of Rates they have included only Mazdoor -for both man and woman equal daily wages. But in actual practice in construction sector the descrimination prevails. In actual practice women labourers get paid less than men.

Same thing is happening in teaching and teacher education field. Teaching field offers large employment. And most of the teachers are women. Being unorganised they are easy to be exploited, with low salaries. No party, not even the communist parties will come to help them.

90% of teachers in the B.Ed training colleges are women. They do not protest low wages. They are not supposed to protest, because they are women. Universities are in the forefront of the exploitation. While permanent employees of the Universities get fat salaries with DA revision and frequent salary revisions, they do not like to increase the 'salary' (or wage) of the contract teachers who constitute 90%.

Teacher Educators, who are teachers of teachers, are treated like slaves in this country. How can we expect anything positive happening here..?

New+norms+for+teacher+education+mooted

New norms for teacher education mooted

Surbhi Bhatia, TNN Jun 15, 2009, 01.06am IST

Teacher education in India is all set for a revival. The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) will be coming out with a new curriculum for teacher-training courses. Also, the council will be laying down strict regulatory norms to check the quality of teacher education institutes and to curb the mushrooming of sub-standard private institutes. In fact, it has decided to put a curb on the number of teacher-training institutes a state can have.

"Teacher training in India has been getting diluted over the years. There are good, bad and even worse institutes offering teacher education programmes. NCTE has already shut down more than 150 sub-standard institutes. But along with this, there is also a need to improve the quality of education in the existing institutes. Therefore, we have decided to revise the teacher education curriculum, propose new norms for institutes, new qualification for faculty and new eligibility criteria for admission of student teachers," informed Mohammad Akhtar Siddiqui, chairperson, NCTE.

As per the new norms, the council has revised the minimum eligibility criterion for admission into a BEd course from 45% to 50%. As to the faculty at the teacher-training institutes, the council has increased the qualification level. Very soon, only those with a Master's or a PhD degree in one subject, Master's in education (MEd) and a National Eligibility Test (NET) score, would be eligible to apply as a faculty member at any of the teacher-training institutes. At present, those with a BEd and a Master's degree in any subject are eligible to apply for the post of a lecturer. The council is also mooting a national level Teacher Eligibility Test on the lines of National Eligibility Test (NET) to maintain faculty standard.

Part of blame goes to teachers

Looking back to school and college days I realise how much teachers influence our interest in a subject. The teachers can make a subject boring and frustrating if their knowledge is shallow and their motivation is low.

We know that when we talk to an enthusiastic person we get inspired. Enthusiasm is contagious, just like frustration is contagious as well.

Majority of teachers are paid low salaries and there is no word called "promotion" in their career dictionary. Most of the teachers in this country of ancient "gurus" are underpaid.

Even the teachers of teachers, the faculty of B.Ed colleges, do not get enough to buy decent food and clothes for their families. Our universities treat them as beggars, following the exploitation pattern before the pre-socialistic revolutions. There is no minimum wages concept to protect the teachers from exploitation by greedy managements and even government agencies. So how can there be enthusiasm in teaching if ones career is perpetually in shambles?

A gadget that may reduce the reduce the burden of school bag

Kapil sibal unveiled a tablet computer that is supposed to be cheap (costing Rs.1700 only). Good!

But, where is the connectivity? Broadband costs Rs.900 per month for unlimited connection.

Then what is the use of a cheap tablet computer if the network costs are prohibitive?

This device possibly can reduce the burden of children who are now carrying so many books to school. But I do not know whether it can be used as an e-book.

When we talk of e-books it is the amazon kindle that comes to mind suddenly. It is slim and its screen is eye-friendly. You can store hundreds of books in kindle if you wish.

See the amazon kindle website.

It is tempting. It has similar looks like other books.
Amazon has a number of models for e-readers. In the kindle website here its specifications are given. I am cutting pasting the same below.

POOR SALARY AND SERVICE CONDITIONS OF TEACHERS OF SELF FINANCING B.ED COLLEGES RUN BY UNIVERSITIES

The salary and working conditions of teachers of self-financing B.Ed Centres run by Calicut University are as follows:

• The teachers of University centres are referred as ‘teachers’ are not with titles as “Lecturers”, “Assistant Professors”, “Professors” and “Readers” like their counterparts in the four government B.Ed training colleges. They do not have any scope for promotions to higher posts even for those with decades of experience.
• All faculty members are appointed on contract basis for a period of one year, with contract renewed annually. There is no job security.
• The monthly salary of a teacher of University B. Ed centre is Rs.12,000/- and the Principals get Rs.16000/- (consolidated). Annual increment is a measly Rs.250/- Their counterparts in government enjoy UGC scale of pay with all other benefits.
• The teacher training institutions imparts training on teaching to school teachers. However, the teachers of the B.Ed Centres run the Universities are not given participation in State the training programmes for government school teachers on latest concepts like the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) etc. The services of teachers of B.Ed centres are not utilized for governmental educational programmes. However, their service is utilized for valuation of B.Ed exam papers.
• Ninety percent of teachers in the B.Ed centres are ladies. They do not have even maternity leave benefits. No medical benefits are available like those enjoyed by the permanent teachers in the government colleges. If fallen sick they lose their jobs for absence and do not get support for medicines.
• Even the experience in the University B.Ed centres is not recognized by the Kerala Public Service Commission for appointments. Even Calicut university has not recognized the experience of these teachers in the B.Ed centres
• To add to the insult, the Librarian, section officer and sweeper of the B.Ed centres are permanent employees while the Head of the Department, the Principal and all faculty members are appointed on contract basis. It is an insult to the teaching community as a whole.
• Though ninety percent of the teacher trainers in the Kerala State are working in the private and self financing centres and they are not imparted training in school latest curriculum.

Calicut University B.Ed Centers pay low salaries to faculty members..

Universities only teach socialism and marxism. They do not follow such philosophies themselves.

The disparity between the regular permanent teachers and the contract teachers working in the University is huge and still increasing. A senior faculty member of the University gets UGC salary of around Rs.50,000 to Rs. 1 Lakh per month. Hundreds of teachers appointed on contract basis in the self financing institutions get Rs.12,000 per month and their Principals get Rs.15,000 p.m. There is no other allowances or job security. No medical benefits, insurance, provident fund, pension and no maternity leave even. If one falls sick she looses job due to absence that is all.

In the B.Ed centers of the Calicut Universities all the faculty members including the Principal are working on contract basis. There is only just one staff to run the institution- the Section Officer who is a permanent staff of the University. Besides him, the Librarian and sweeper are permanent employees of the University.

Teacher Education - Problems and Challenges

Over the last half a century and particularly, in the recent decades, teaching learning has been undergoing drastic changes. There has been a shift towards student centred classrooms with teacher’s role more as facilitator of learning rather than an autocratic master. Unlike in the past when the teacher was entrusted with transferring the contents of curriculum to a passive audience of students, today new experiments are being tried out in the classroom that includes project based learning, development of thinking skills, and discovery learning approaches. As part of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) the textbooks have also been modified (in my opinion, to make them worse than before in many respects).

Many teachers are not properly trained in implementing the concepts behind the new curriculum and many are not equipped to properly implement the curriculum.

The funniest thing is that the teacher education centres and the curriculum followed in the teacher education have very little focus on new trends in education. The SSA training programs have excluded the teacher educators and have been confined to in-service teacher training alone. The pre-service teacher education sector has been kept away from the SSA and therefore, the teacher aspirants passing out of the B.Ed colleges get exposed to the new curriculum only when they join the schools.

In Kerala Drivers and sweepers earn more than teacher educators

90 percent of B.Ed colleges are in private/self financing sector in Kerala. Only 4 government run colleges and 17 aided colleges where teacher educators have permanent employment and UGC/government salaries. In the rest of the 90% institutions teachers get Rs.10,000 to maximum of Rs.16,000 for the Principal. and all are contract employees

In Kerala a masons daily wage is Rs. 500-600 per day. The government wages of drivers appointed on contract basis is Rs.375 per day. Permanent sweepers with years of experience get more than the teacher educators, the faculty members with M.A/M.Sc an M.Ed with UGC .Doctorate in Education

How can education sector improve?

UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13084&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers

5 October 1966

The Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers,Recalling that the right to education is a fundamental human right,

Conscious of the responsibility of the States for the provision of proper education for all in fulfillment of Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of Principles 5, 7 and 10 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and of the United Nations Declaration concerning the Promotion among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding between Peoples,

Aware of the need for more extensive and widespread general and technical and vocational education, with a view to making full use of all the talent and intelligence available as an essential contribution to continued moral and cultural progress and economic and social advancement,

Recognizing the essential role of teachers in educational advancement and the importance of their contribution to the development of man and modern society,

Teacher Educators have no career opportunities

When Dr. Sreelatha M.Sc., Ph.D (Education) who was working in a priviate B.Ed college felt that doing a PhD would help her in career advancement, she could never imagined what she was stepping into. After many years of hard labour, at 42 yrs, she is still working in a self financing B.Ed center run by Calicut university, Kerala. She works on contract basis earning 16000 Rs. per month and not a paisa more as allowance. Her annual increment is a measly Rs.250/-. Many of her students have joined government/ aided schools and earns more than her.

Besides low monthly pay and job insecurity she has to suffer lot of other humiliations too, like a servant in the past. Her counterparts with same qualifications working in the government and aided colleges get about 5-6 times her salary plus all allowances including pension, medical benefits, maternity benefits, Travelling allowance, Dearness allowances, etc. and job security which she does not enjoy as a Principal of B.Ed college working on contract basis. More insulting thing is that the librarian, section officer and sweeper in the same college are permanent employees of the University. Only the faculty members and the Principal of these institutions are on contract basis. Every year the faculty members and the Principals have to apply for renewing their contracts with Calicut University and the University bosses delay their papers and as a result they have to go for months without salaries.

AICTE gives equal status to self financing teachers similar to those in government colleges

http://dst.bih.nic.in/Circulars/AICTE_NOTIFICATION.pdf

In the document cited above, the AICTE give equal treatment to faculty members of self financing institutions: READ

2.4 Self- financing Institutions:

The pay- Scales, qualifications and other associated terms as given in this notification shall be applicable to all self- financing (private un-aided) institutions.

15.4 (ii) Self- Financing Institutions
Self-Financing Institutions shall provide Dearness Allowance and other Allowances, Medical Facilities/ Group Health Insurance, Leave Encashment Facilities, Pension and other Retirement benefits (GPF-cum- Gratuity Scheme or CPF- cum –Gratuity Scheme) and group
Insurance at rates not lower than those available to teachers (or corresponding employees) in the respective State Government Service.

Educational Administrators should have vision and efficiency

Whom should one consider as GODs? They are not any imaginary entities..they are the able administrators who support a system. India has not become like Somalia or Afghanistan because we have had a number of able administrators. The efficiency of administration is a critical factor in deciding the condition of people of a land (or any system). Corrupt and inefficient administrators can spoil a system and cause loss of income and job for the employees who depend on the system.

Since able administrators are responsible for sustaining the system they are equivalent to Gods. And the inefficient stupid and corrupt managers are devils. They are responsible for the miseries people face.

See the case of KELTRON. There was a time when KELTRON was the envy of all. Now the situation is grim. Many companies have shut down due to poor administration.
Sincere dedicated and intelligent people at the helm of affairs... the system will blossom like a flower.. Stupid corrupt people without any sincerity can wither that flower in no time...
What is ailing the educational system is the lack of able administrators in the helm of affairs. It is the same with health or public works department. A few people are there who play a role in keeping the system going.. But to make the system rocking and efficient, able administrators must take charge of the affairs.
An able administrator will be good leader.. He will inspire his staff to act. He will give guidance and make available all facilities to the staff to enable them to deliver good services. He will have vision and knowledge of latest technology and management practices. He will update the system and bring it to the forefront.
We need such administrators in Education ministry, Education department, Universities.. Then they will set new trends that will trickle down to lowest levels upto primary schools. The top managers are responsible for the performance of the entire system. The top managers must be the best ..the cream..to sustain the education system

അധ്യാപക പരിശീലകര്‍ക്ക് കേരളം രക്ഷയില്ല

കേരളത്തില്‍ വെറും നാല് ഗവണ്മെന്റ് ബി.എഡ് കോളേജുകള്‍ മാത്രമാണ് ഉള്ളത്. അവിടെ ജോലി കിട്ടിയാലേ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ശമ്പളവും സേവന വേതന വ്യവസ്ഥയും കിട്ടുകയുള്ളൂ. എന്നാല്‍ അവിടെ ജോലി കിട്ടുക അത്ര എളുപ്പം അല്ല. കാരണം പി.എസ്‌. സി. നടത്തുന്ന നിയമനത്തില്‍ ആദ്യം സര്‍കാരില്‍ തന്നെ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവര്‍ക്കെ കൊടുക്കൂ. അവരാരും ഇല്ല എങ്കില്‍ മാത്രമേ ജനറല്‍ ഉദ്യോഗാര്‍ഥികളെ പരിഗണിക്കൂ. അങ്ങിനെ ഉണ്ടാവുക എളുപ്പം അല്ല.

പിന്നെ പതിനേഴു എയിടെഡ് കോളേജുകള്‍ ഉണ്ട്. അവിടെ ജാതി, മതം, പണം, സ്വാധീനം ഇതെല്ലം ഉള്ളവര്‍ക്കെ ജോലി കിട്ടൂ. സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ തന്നെയാണ് ഇവിടെയും ശമ്പളം കൊടുക്കുന്നത്. ടാക്സ് അടക്കുന്നവന്റെ പണം കൊണ്ട് ജാതി മത ഗ്രൂപ്പുകളെ സഹായിക്കുകയാണ് സര്‍കാരിന്റെ പണി.

ഇനി ഇരുന്നൂറോളം സ്വകാര്യ- സ്വാശ്രയ ടീച്ചര്‍ എജ്യൂകേശന്‍ കോളേജുകള്‍ ഉണ്ട്. അവിടെ പന്ത്രണ്ട് പതിനഞ്ചു ആയിരം രൂപ മൊത്തമായി നല്‍കും. വേറെ പെന്‍ഷനോ മെഡിക്കല്‍ എന്നിവ ഒന്നും നല്‍കില്ല. ജോലി സ്ഥിരതയും ഇല്ല.

ഭൂരിപക്ഷം ടീച്ചര്‍ മാറും പെണ്ണുങ്ങള്‍ ആണ്. ടീച്ചര്‍ എജ്യൂകേശന്‍ കൊല്ലെജുകളിലും ടീച്ചര്‍ മാര്‍ സ്ത്രീകള്‍ തന്നെ. സമരം ഒന്നും ഇല്ല. വേറെ ഗതിയില്ലാത്തവരെ ഇവിടെ വരൂ. ശമ്പളം കൂട്ടി ചോദിക്കാന്‍ പോലും ധൈര്യം ഇല്ല. ചോദിച്ചാല്‍ ജോലി പോകും എന്നത് മറ്റൊരു കാര്യം.

സ്വകാര്യ-സ്വാശ്രയ കോളേജുകളില്‍ ടീച്ചര്‍ മാര്‍ക്ക് കുറഞ്ഞ ശമ്പളം കൊടുത്താണ് ലാഭം ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നത്. സ്ത്രീകള്‍ ആയതു കൊണ്ട് കൂടുതല്‍ സൌകര്യമാണ്.

ടീച്ചര്‍ മാര്‍ക്ക് പരിശീലനം കൊടുക്കുന്ന സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍  ഇത്തരം കച്ചവട സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ ആയി മാറുന്നതില്‍ ആര്‍ക്കും പരാതിയില്ല. ഇവിടെ പഠിച്ചിറങ്ങുന്ന ടീച്ചര്‍മാര്‍ വിവരമില്ലാത്തവരായാലും അത്ഭുതം ഇല്ല. അതൊന്നും സര്‍കാരിന്റെ ബാധ്യതയല്ല എന്നാണ് സര്‍കാരിന്റെ നിലപാട്. പിന്നെ എം.എ. ബേബി എന്നാ ഒരു വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ മന്ത്രിക്ക് ഉള്ഘാടനങ്ങള്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ട് വേണ്ടേ മറ്റു കാര്യങ്ങള്‍?

യു. ജി.സി. യോഗ്യത ഉള്ള ബി. എഡ്. കോളേജ് അധ്യാപകര്‍ യു.ജി. സി സ്കെയിലില്‍ ശമ്പളം വാങ്ങാന്‍ സാധ്യത ഇല്ല. വെറും പത്തു ശതമാനം അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്കെ അത് ലഭിക്കുകയുള്ളൂ. അതില്‍ തന്നെ എട്ടു ശതമാനം അധ്യാപകരും പണവും സ്വാധീനവും ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ആയിടെദ് കോളേജുകളില്‍ കിട്ടുന്നവരും. യു. ജി. സി എന്നാ സ്ഥാപനം നിര്ത്തലാകേണ്ട സമയം ആയി.

ബി.എഡ്. കോളേജ് അധ്യാപകരെ ഒന്നിലും തൊടീക്കില്ല സര്‍ക്കാര്‍. ടീച്ചര്‍ മാരുടെ ഇന്‍ സര്‍വീസ് പരിശീലനതിനോന്നും ഇവരെ വിളിക്കില്ല. എന്നാല്‍ ഇവര്‍ ഇടുന്ന മാര്‍ക്കില്‍ സര്കാരിനും യൂനിവേഴ്സിട്ടിക്കും വിശ്വാസമാണ്. ഇവര്‍ ബി.എഡ്. കോഴ്സിന്റെ പരീക്ഷ സൂപ്പര്‍ വൈസര്‍മാരായും പേപ്പര്‍ നോക്കുന്നവരായും ഒക്കെ സര്‍കാരിന്റെ പണി ഏറ്റെടുക്കും.

അധ്യാപക പരിശീലന രംഗം ഉധരിക്കേണ്ട സമയം അതിക്രമിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.

അധ്യാപക പരിശീലനരംഗം മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുവാനും ബി.എഡ് അധ്യാപകരുടെ സേവന-വേതന വ്യവസ്ഥകള്‍ മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുവാനും സമര്‍പ്പിക്കുന്ന നിവേദനം

യൂനിവേഴ്സിറ്റി ബി.എഡ് സെന്ററുകളില്‍ അധ്യാപകരും പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പാള്‍മാരും ചൂഷണസമാനമായ സാഹചര്യങ്ങളില്‍ ആണു് ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നത്. യൂനിവേഴ്സിറ്റി വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ പരിശീലന സെന്ററുകളില്‍  ബി.ഏഡ്. അധ്യാപകരുടെ ഇന്നത്തെ അവസ്ഥ:

• അധ്യാപകരുടെ ശമ്പളം:12,000 രൂപ (മൊത്തം); പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പാളിനു് ശമ്പളം: 15,000 രൂപ (മൊത്തം);
• വാര്‍ഷിക വര്‍ദ്ധന വെറും Rs.250/-. പത്തും പതിനഞ്ചും വര്‍ഷം പ്രവര്‍ത്തി പരിചയവും ഡോക്ടറേറ്റും ഉള്ള പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പാള്‍മാര്‍ക്ക് പോലും മാസ ശമ്പളം Rs.16500/- ല്‍ താഴെ.
• സേവനം കരാര്‍ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തില്‍. ജോലി സ്ഥിരത ഒട്ടും ഇല്ല
• സെന്ററുകളില്‍ അദ്ധ്യാപകരും പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പാളും കരാര്‍ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തില്‍ തുഛമായ വേതനം പറ്റുന്നവരാണു എങ്കിലും ലൈബ്രറിയന്‍, ക്ലാര്‍ക്ക്, പ്യൂണ്‍ എന്നിവര്‍ സ്ഥിരം ജീവനക്കാരാണു എന്നതാണു് കൗതുകകരമായ വസ്തുത.
• മെഡിക്കല്‍ ബെനിഫിറ്റ്, പ്രസവാവധി എന്നീ ആനുകൂല്യങ്ങള്‍ യാതൊന്നും ഇല്ല. അസുഖം ബാധിച്ചാല്‍ ശമ്പളവും ഇല്ല, ചികില്‍സാ ചിലവും ഇല്ല, ജോലിയും ഉറപ്പില്ല
• തൊണ്ണൂറു ശതമാനം അധ്യാപകരും ഉന്നത ബിരുദധാരിണികള്‍ ആയ വനിതകള്‍ ആണു്; മിക്കവരും യു.ജി.സി അധ്യാപക യോഗ്യത ഉള്ളവരും, ചിലര്‍ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തില്‍ ഡോക്ടറേറ്റ് ഉള്ളവരും ആണു്.
• സര്‍ക്കാര്‍- എയിഡഡ് കോളേജുകളിലെ സ്ഥിര അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്ക് നല്‍ക്കുന്നത് പോലെ പ്രമോഷനോ “അസി. പ്രൊഫസ്സര്‍, പ്രൊഫസ്സര്‍, റീഡര്‍” തുടങ്ങിയ സ്ഥാനപ്പേരുകളോ നല്‍കുന്നില്ല.
• സെന്ററുകളില്‍ ഉള്ള പ്രവൃത്തി പരിചയം പി.എസ്.സി. നിയമനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി നിയമനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും യോഗ്യതയായി അംഗീകരിച്ചിട്ടു പോലും ഇല്ല.
• സര്‍ക്കാരിന്റെ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ പരിഷ്കാരങ്ങളുടെ ഭാഗമായി നടപ്പാക്കുന്ന സര്‍വശിക്ഷാ അഭിയാന്‍, ഐ.ടി. അറ്റ് സ്കൂള്‍ തുടങ്ങിയ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ രീതികള്‍ നടപ്പാക്കുന്നതിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ നല്‍കുന്ന പരിശീലനത്തില്‍ ബി.ഏഡ്. അധ്യാപകരെ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടില്ല. ഇതു മൂലം അധ്യാപകര്‍ ആവാന്‍ പരിശീലനത്തിനെത്തുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് ആധുനിക പരിഷ്കാരങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ച് അറിവോ പരിശീലനമോ ലഭിക്കുന്നില്ല.

ആവശ്യങ്ങള്‍:

1. യൂണിവെഴ്സിറ്റിയുടെ ബി.എഡ് സെന്ററുകളില്‍ യോഗ്യത ഉള്ള ബി.എഡ്. അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്കും പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പാള്‍മാര്‍ക്കും യു.ജി.സി അനുശാസിക്കുന്ന സേവന-വേതന വ്യവസ്ഥകള്‍ നടപ്പാക്കുക.
2. യോഗ്യത ഉള്ള അധ്യാപകരെയും പ്രിന്‍സിപ്പാള്‍മാരെയും സ്ഥിരപ്പെടുത്തുക
3. സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ കോളേജുകളില്‍ നല്‍കുന്ന പോലെ “അസി. പ്രൊഫസ്സര്‍, പ്രൊഫസ്സര്‍, റീഡര്‍”  തുടങ്ങിയ തസ്തികകളിലേക്ക് പ്രൊമൊഷന്‍ നല്‍കുക
4. സെന്ററുകളില്‍ ഉള്ള പ്രവൃത്തി പരിചയം പി.എസ്.സി. നിയമനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി നിയമനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും യോഗ്യതയായി അംഗീകരിക്കുക
5. സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ സ്കൂള്‍ അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്ക് നല്‍കി വരുന്ന വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ പരിശീലന പരിപാടികളില്‍ പങ്കെടുപ്പിക്കുക.

കേരളത്തിലെ അധ്യാപകരുടെ ഈറ്റില്ലമായ ബി.എഡ്. വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ പരിശീലന കോളേജുകളുടെ നിലവാരം മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനായിട്ടും അതിലൂടെ കേരളത്തിലെ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ രംഗത്തെ മൊത്തം അഭിവൃദ്ധിപ്പെടുത്തുവാനും  മേല്‍പ്പറഞ്ഞ പരിഷ്ക്കാരങ്ങള്‍ നടപ്പിലാക്കണം എന്ന് വിനീതമായി അഭ്യര്‍ഥിക്കുന്നു.