പത്ത് ശതമാനം അധ്യാപകര്‍ കവര്‍ന്നെടുത്ത അധ്യാപക-പരിശീലന രംഗം

കേരളത്തിലെ തൊണ്ണൂറു ശതമാനം ബി എഡ് കോളേജ് അധ്യാപകരും NCTE   അംഗീകൃതമായ സ്വകാര്യ / സ്വാശ്രയ  ബി എഡ് കോളേജുകളില്‍ ആണ് പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്‌. ഇവരില്‍ ഭൂരിപക്ഷം പേര്‍ക്കും UGC നിര്‍ദേശിച്ച യോഗ്യത (UGC-NET) ഉള്ളവര്‍ ആണ്  . പലര്‍ക്കും  വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തില്‍ ഡോക്ടരേട്ടും ഉണ്ട്. പത്തും ഇരുപതും വര്‍ഷമായി ഈ മേഖലയില്‍ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവരാണ് പലരും. കുറഞ്ഞ വേതനം, ജോലി സ്ഥിരത ഇല്ലായ്ക, ആനുകൂല്യങ്ങളൊന്നും ഇല്ലായ്ക തുടങ്ങിയ പ്രധാന പ്രശ്നങ്ങള്‍ക്കുപരിയായി താഴെ പറയുന്ന പ്രശ്നങ്ങളും അവര്‍ അഭിമുഖീകരിക്കുന്നു. 

സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ബി എഡ് കോളേജിലെ അധ്യാപക നിയമനത്തില്‍ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ സ്കൂളുകളില്‍  ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവരെ മുഴുവനായും  പരിഗണിച്ചതിന് ശേഷം ബാക്കി ഒഴിവുവന്നാല്‍ മാത്രമേ പൊതു ഉദ്യോഗാര്‍ഥികള്‍ക്ക്   അവസരം നല്‍കുന്നുള്ളൂ. അതുമൂലം   സ്വകാര്യ/സ്വാശ്രയ കോളേജുകളിലെ എല്ലയോജ്യതകളും പ്രവര്‍ത്തിപരിചയവും  ഉള്ള പൊതു  ഉദ്യോഗാര്‍ഥികള്‍ക്ക് അവസരം  നിഷേധിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. അതിനാല്‍ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ബി എഡ് കോളേജുകളില്‍ അധ്യാപക നിയമനത്തില്‍ കാറ്റഗറി I,II, എന്നീ രണ്ടു ലിസ്റ്റുകളും ഇടുന്നത് നിര്‍ത്തലാക്കി  പ്രസ്തുത തസ്തികകള്‍ മുഴുവന്‍ പൊതു  ഉദ്യോഗാര്‍ഥികള്‍ക്ക്  തുറന്നു കൊടുത്ത് ഈ കടുത്ത അന്യായം പരിഹരിക്കണം 

NCTE  അംഗീകൃത സ്വകാര്യ/സ്വാശ്രയ കോളേജുകളിലെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിപരിചയം സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ / എയിടെഡ്  കോളേജുകളിലെ അധ്യാപക നിയമനത്തിന്, PSC യോ, യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റിയോ പ്രവൃത്തി പരിചയമായി ഇന്ന്  കണക്കാക്കുന്നില്ല. അതിനാല്‍ NCTE  അംഗീകൃത  സ്വകാര്യ/സ്വാശ്രയ കോളേജുകളിലെ യോഗ്യതകളുള്ള അധ്യാപകരുടെ  പ്രവര്‍ത്തിപരിചയം   സര്‍ക്കാര്‍/  എയിടെഡ്  കോളേജുകളിലെ പ്രവൃത്തിപരിചയത്തിനു   തുല്യമായി പരിഗണിക്കേണ്ടതാണ് 

ഇതുമൂലം സംസ്ഥാനത്തിലെ ലക്ഷക്കണക്കിന്‌ (ബഹു ഭൂരിപക്ഷവും)  ബി എഡ് കാരെ  പഠിപ്പിച്ച സ്വകാര്യ / സ്വാശ്രയ  കോളേജുകളിലെ അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്ക് നീതി ലഭിക്കുന്നതാണ്.

അവഗണിക്കപ്പെട്ട അധ്യാപകപരിശീലന രംഗം

അധ്യാപക പരിശീലന കോളേജുകള്‍ എന്നാല്‍ മാനേജുമെന്റുകള്‍ക്ക് പൈസ ഉണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ ഉള്ള സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ എന്ന പോലെയാണ് സര്‍ക്കാരിന്റെയും സമൂഹത്തിന്റെയും സമീപനം. എന്നാല്‍ അധ്യാപകരെ വാര്‍ത്തെടുക്കുന്നതില്‍ പ്രധാന പങ്കു വഹിക്കുന്ന ഈ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ രംഗത്തിനെ കാര്യമായി സ്വാധീനിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയുമെന്ന കാര്യം അധികമാരുടെയും ചിന്താവിഷയം ആയിട്ടില്ല. എന്‍ .സി.ടി.ഇ. എന്ന സ്ഥാപനം അധ്യാപക പരിശീലന രംഗത്തിന്റെ നിലവാരം നിലനിറുത്തുവാന്‍ ഉണ്ടാക്കപ്പെട്ടിട്ടുള്ളതാണ് എന്നതൊഴിച്ചാല്‍ കേന്ദ്രസര്‍ക്കാരും ഈ രംഗത്തിന്റെ സാദ്ധ്യതകള്‍ പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്തുവാന്‍ മെനക്കെട്ടതായി തോന്നുന്നില്ല.

കേരളത്തില്‍ ഇന്ന് ഇരുന്നൂറ്റി ഇരുപതോ അതില്‍ കൂടുതലോ ബി.എഡ് കോളേജുകള്‍ നിലവിലുണ്ട്. അതില്‍ തൊണ്ണൂറു ശതമാനവും സ്വകാര്യ-സ്വാശ്രയ മാനേജുമെന്റുകള്‍ നടത്തുന്നവയാണ്. വെറും നാല് കോളേജുകള്‍ മാത്രമേ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ സ്ഥാപങ്ങള്‍ ആയിട്ടുള്ളൂ. പതിനേഴോളം കോളേജുകള്‍ എയിടെഡ് കോളേജുകള്‍ ആണ്. ഈ പത്ത് ശതമാനം കോളേജുകളിലെ അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്ക് യൂ. ജി. സി. പ്രകാരം ഉള്ള ശമ്പളവും, പെന്‍ഷന്‍ തുടങ്ങിയ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ആനുകൂല്യങ്ങളും ലഭിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ബാക്കി തൊണ്ണൂറു ശതമാനം കോളേജ് അധ്യാപരും കരാര്‍ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തില്‍ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവരോ എപ്പോള്‍ വേണമെങ്കിലും പിരിച്ചു വിടപ്പെടാവുന്ന വ്യവസ്ഥയില്‍ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവരോ ആണ്. മാസം പതിനായിരത്തിനും ഇരുപതിനായിരത്തിനും ഇടക്ക് ഒരു തുകയാണ് കോളേജുകള്‍ ഇവര്‍ക്ക് നല്‍കുന്നത്. മറ്റു ആനുകൂല്യങ്ങള്‍ ഒന്നും ഇല്ല. ഇവരെല്ലാം തന്നെ കുടുംബത്തിലെ മറ്റു അംഗങ്ങളെ ആശ്രയിച്ചാണ് ജീവിക്കുന്നത്.

ഒരു വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട കാര്യം അവിടെ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്ന അധ്യാപകര്‍ മികച്ചവര്‍ ആകണം എന്നതാണ്. നല്ല അധ്യാപകര്‍ ഉണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ സ്കൂളിന്റെ നിലവാരം തന്നെ മെച്ചപ്പെടും. വിദ്യാര്‍ഥികളുടെ ജീവിതത്തില്‍ ഏറ്റവും സ്വാധീനം ചെലുത്തുന്നവര്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ അധ്യാപകര്‍ക്കുള്ള പങ്ക് വളരെ വലുതാണ്‌. നമ്മള്‍ ജീവിതാവസാനം വരെ ഓര്‍മയില്‍ സൂക്ഷിക്കുന്ന വ്യക്തികള്‍ ആണ് സ്കൂളില്‍ നമ്മളെ പഠിപ്പിച്ച അധ്യാപകര്‍ . ഈ അധ്യാപകരുടെ ഈറ്റില്ലം അന്ന് പറയാവുന്ന സ്ഥാപനമാണ്‌ ബി.എഡ് കോളേജ്. അവിടെ നിന്നും ലഭിച്ച പരിശീലനവും ആത്മബലവും എല്ലാ കാലത്തും അവരുടെ മനസ്സില്‍ ഉണ്ടാവും.

ബി.എഡ് കോളേജ് അധ്യാപകര്‍ അഥവാ അധ്യാപക പരിശീലകര്‍ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തില്‍ ഉന്നത ബിരുദങ്ങള്‍ ഉള്ളവരും യൂ.ജി.സി., എന്‍ സി. ടി. ഇ. എന്നിവ കൂടാതെ സര്‍ക്കാരുകള്‍ അംഗീകരിച്ച യോഗ്യതകള്‍ കൂടി ഉള്ളവരാണ്. സയന്‍സ്, ആര്‍ട്സ്, കൊമേഴ്സ്‌ എന്നിവയില്‍ ബിരുദാനന്തര ബിരുദവും അതിനു പുറമേ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തില്‍ ബിരുദാനന്തര ബിരുദവും ഇവര്‍ക്ക് നിശ്ചയമായും ഉണ്ടാവേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. കൂടാതെ യൂ.ജി.സി ലെക്ചര്‍ഷിപ്പ് (നെറ്റ്) പരീക്ഷയും പാസായിരിക്കണം. വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തില്‍ ഡോക്ടറേറ്റ്‌ ഉള്ളവരും കുറവല്ല.

എന്തൊക്കെയാണ് വിദ്യാഭ്യാസപരിശീലന രംഗത്തിനെ ബാധിക്കുന്ന പ്രധാന പ്രശ്നങ്ങള്‍ ? കാലാഹരണപ്പെട്ട പാഠൃ പദ്ധതി, കാലോചിതമായി പരിഷ്ക്കരിക്കാത്ത ടെക്സ്റ്റ് ബുക്കുകള്‍ ,  അധ്യാപകരുടെ കുറഞ്ഞ സേവന-വേതന വ്യവസ്ഥ, ഇവയെല്ലാം ആണ് പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട കാരണങ്ങള്‍. ഉപജീവനത്തിനുള്ള വരുമാനം പോലും ശമ്പളമായി ലഭിക്കാത്ത അധ്യാപക പരിശീലന രംഗത്തേക്ക് വരാന്‍ ആരും തയ്യാറാകുന്നില്ല. പുരുഷന്മാര്‍ പത്ത് ശതമാനം പോലും ഈ രംഗത്തില്‍ ഇല്ല. തൊണ്ണൂറു ശതമാനവും സ്ത്രീകള്‍ ആണ് അധ്യാപക പരിശീലകര്‍. സ്ത്രീകള്‍ക്ക് പുരുഷന്മാരെ പോലെ മറ്റു സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് ജോലി തേടി പോകാന്‍ എളുപ്പമല്ല. ഭര്‍ത്താവിന്റെ വരുമാനം ആശ്രയിച്ചാണ് ഇവരെല്ലാം തന്നെ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നത്. മലയാളത്തില്‍ 

Dismiss government and aided B.Ed college teachers and recruit them as contract teachers -let their be equality

The following article appeared in TOI 

Dr. Ramakrishnan is advocating for the interest of the privileged government teachers who snatch away most of the resources in the education sector, that is highly discriminatory towards the private and self financing college teachers. It is shameful that he is trying to vest with government / aided college teachers, who constitute just a small proportion of teacher educators (<10%), all rights and privilages, and failing to see that the teachers of the private and self financing B.Ed colleges, though equally qualified, suffer from very poor service conditions without job security, promotions, designations as 'Professors', 'Readers' etc., no pay scale and just small consolidated pay with no allowances or pension, etc. 

Ninety percent of B.Ed college teachers in the State work in the private /self financing sectors and they are deprived of all the facilities that their counterparts in government and aided colleges enjoy. Even though the teachers of the private and self financing colleges are qualified equally as that of government college teachers and even more, even their services are not recognized - a clear case of human rights violation and discrimination. 

Ninety percent of B.Ed teachers are lady teachers and they are not organised into associations and lack political clout. Their employments are highly insecure and they are exploited by the private managements and the university. But they do not dare to speak against the injustices meted out to them. Even their teaching experiences are not recognized by the PSC or University and as a result the teachers working in the aided and govt. department always get upper hand in recruitments to university posts of faculty members and administration. What right have the teachers in government /aided colleges to keep for themselves all privileges and get paid high salaries in UGC scale with pension, while 90% of teachers in the State do not get just a small fraction of what they get.

It is high time that government and the Universities stop discriminatory treatment between teachers of private/self financing and of govt./aided colleges. All teachers with qualifications prescribed by the UGC, whether working in the private or aided or government or self financing colleges, must be equally treated for the purpose of salary and service conditions, promotions, privileges, and every other aspect. Otherwise, the government and the universities should stop paying high salaries and give better service conditions to their favoured 'permanent' teachers of government and aided colleges, dismiss them and recruit them as contract teachers with consolidated small pay at par with the private /self financing college teachers. Let all suffer equally !!

Government looting the public for paying UGC faculty members

An article in Mathrubhumi daily at the following link shows the hefty pay that the college teachers who are permanent and UGC salary holders get. This is happening when most of the teachers in the private sector and those employed in contract basis in the government sector are exploited and paid consolidated little amount without any pension, allowances, job security, or anything.

The college teachers in the private/self-financing sector and those employed on contract basis constitute the major chuck of teachers. Government are not bothered about their plight. The institutions pay them only small consolidated amount every month.

The communist government under Achyuthanandan was eager to give UGC scales of pay to permanent college teachers working in government and aided sector but did not bother about those in the private and self financing sectors

http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/news.php?id=89216

The present government of Sri.Umman Chandi is also generous and they have also decided to revise the pay of permanent college teachers. See the links below

http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=297264

Unaided B.Ed College Teachers Teaching Experience not counted -human rights violation

The teaching experience of unaided / self financing teachers is not counted while recruiting faculty members in the Kerala University. This was revealed when information was sought vide RTI 2005 Act. This is gross injustice to the unemployed youth in the State and the Country. 

Teachers of unaided/self-financing colleges with many years of teaching experience and administrative experience as Principals are at a disadvantage while trying for teaching post in the University departments. 

Those who have already employed thus get advantage in faculty recruitment. The teachers with UGC qualification (UGC_NET)and even Ph.D in Education are unable to get a government post because 90% of B.Ed colleges in the State are in the private /self- financing sectors. These colleges are run with the approval of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).  

It may be noted that there are only 4 B.Ed colleges in the Government sector and 17 in the Aided sector. The rest 200 above colleges are private / self financing colleges. It is not possible for qualified youth in Kerala to become teacher educator (meaning B.Ed college teacher)because the opportunities for employment is NIL. In the 4 government colleges the general candidates are appointed only if candidates working in the government are not available for appointment in 'By Transfer' category in the PSC recruitment.The aided college appointments are based not on merit but on caste /community /Donation considerations mainly. 

Thus it is great injustice to unemployed eligible youth by sealing off all government employment opportunities to them and even declining their hard earned teaching / administrative experience in the private institutions. 

SHAMELESS SCERT TREATS PRINCIPAL EQUIVALENT TO SWEEPER AND POEN

You can see from the above form how these people treat a principal who are on contract staff. They have no respect for teaching profession and discriminates Principals and teachers on contract staff.

There is a government organisation full of corruption and nepotism called SCERT..They do not distinguish between a Principal and a sweeper.. They do not recruit people through Public Service Commission; instead they have their own sinister recruitment methods.. From SCERT website I got a pdf file in which a form for collection of remuneration is given; Principal, poen and sweeper are treated without any difference..see for yourself the following form given in Kerala SCERT website of Open School  http://www.openschool.kerala.gov.in/

The District Co-ordinator of Open School under SCERT is paid just Rs.11,000/-. Even daily wage labourers get much more than this in Kerala. These inhuman bosses in the SCERT higher ups are so burgoise type people that they fail to understand that District Coordinator is a human being who has to feed his/her children and send them to school. These sort of bureaucrats are responsible for the rise in naxalism. These bosses of SCERT are the direct descendants of the British Raj and Slave Kingdoms. These bosses earn fat salaries and perks from State Government and UGC. They do not pay the miserable poor guys a decent livelihood for their hard work and treat SCERT as if it is their ancestral property.

Senior University Professors creating impediments to new recruitment

Only death can get rid of these Professors not retirement -Educational Institutions are being made ancestral properties of the faculty members

Only death can get rid of these Professors who are working in the educational institutions in the country. By the time they reach retirement age they would have developed sufficient political clout to evade retirement. They will be continued as Directors of academic institutions under the Universities until they die. They get post -retirement employment along with their pension.

The educated youth in this country is cheated. These Professors, while working in the University, do everything they could to ensure that they are re-employed there itself. Their latest strategy is to encourage the University managements to establish self financing colleges and avoid recruitment of permanent faculty members. It is similar to the natural phenomenon that, in a herd of Lions the male Lion always tries to kill male cubs to prevent competitions in future. Universities are converted to jungles by these vested interest Professors.

The self financing colleges are shops that insult the teaching profession and the teaching community. These institutions are run by University clerks to keep a watch over the faculty members there who are appointed on hire and fire contract basis. The permanent professors, after retirement has an eye on the positions of Director-ship or Principal posts of these institutions where the other faculty members are mostly women employed on contract.

Thus the UGC Professors have established a mafia in the academic circles to prevent employment opportunities for the youth for their own selfish interests

Textbook writing Professors hamper curriculum improvement

In some Universities like the University of Calicut, there are Professors who write lot of Textbooks, which are actually not different from guides. They push their text books using the University facilities available to them such as University cooperative society and earn so much income out of this book sales. The worst thing about this profit making business is that they hamper development of subject. For example, in the entire State of Kerala the school curriculum follows SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) method of teaching but the B.Ed curriculum does not reflect this. The textbooks and the curriculum remained stagnant. The powerful text book writer lobby could be behind this.

With eye on profit making alone these text book writing Professors write textbooks not only on their own areas of competency, but also on nearly all the subjects beyond their comprehension by 'tying up' with other lesser known writers. Thus it is a classic example of mutual-ism in ecology in which both the teams benefit out of this arrangement.

These Professors lobby have been influential in the University Administration and they set up what is known as Self Financing Colleges meaning Colleges that profit out of low paid teachers appointed on contract basis. These Professors lobby, whose interest is selling textbooks, visit the self financing institutions for delivering lectures/ guest talks/ seminars etc. and in the process give publicity to their books and even distribute their books.. Thus Universities have been reduced into business enterprises where a minority of bourgeois in the garb of Professors stop development of faculty, improvement of curriculum and hamper educational growth, doing great injustice to the children of this land.

At a shop near a self financing college directly run by the University of Calicut, a teacher points at her institution and tells the shopkeeper, "that is another shop just like yours; you sell provisions and they sell education. They have no regard to the profession of teaching or respect for teachers; Even the peon and sweeper of these colleges are permanent employees with all sorts of government salary and benefits but the teachers are appointed on contract basis on hire and fire policy and they treat the teachers as their orderlies".

The UGC salary earning Professors in the Universities have plenty of spare time at their disposal which some of them utilise for making money running their own businesses. Clever Professors actually utilise the facilities provided by the University to become Book Tycoons. None of them have any interest in establishing a great culture in the University or even in good administration.

Globalisation has increased the wealth of Indians and progress. Educational enterprises like Universities, that traditionally played crucial role in development of manpower and responsible citizens, are at present mere teaching enterprises. The value of teachers have depleted and they are just like any other employee. Students of India will soon stop calling the teachers 'Sir' or 'Maam', as teaching as a profession is degraded into mere business rather than institutions inculcating values, patriotism and morals and the Professors have a great role to play in this.

Aided school teachers getting undue advantage-the participate in political activities though they draw government salaries

Aided school teachers getting undue advantage-the participate in political activities though they draw government salaries

Kerala High Court admits PIL to strip politics off aided teachers

Problems in teacher recruitment

Teachers can get appointment in government schools through a cumbersome route..

Government schools: Graduation ---> B.Ed---> TET ----> PSC test
(appointment occurs once in a decade or two..large interval between PSC tests)

Aided schools: Graduation ---> B.Ed---> TET ----> interview
(donation, influence, caste/community factors taken into account)


Unaided Schools: Graduation ---> B.Ed---> TET (?!!) ----> Interview
(very poor salary and service conditions)

The pre-service training, that is, B.Ed course is not just sufficient to become teacher. One has to pass teacher eligibility test.

The TET may impact B.Ed course. Teacher trainees may be busy preparing for TET while doing B.Ed. It is likely that the B.Ed colleges turn into TET coaching centers.

No more theory paper in ICT in schools ...great step

Teacher Education In India blog has brought up the poor teaching methodology adopted in schools to the notice of the authorities.
The response of the authorities was very positive and progressive.

SUMMING UP

In response to the blogpost on wrong way of teaching IT at school, the IT Executive Director Sri. Anvar Sadat said that "

"What you have shown is the way in which a teacher or student is NOT supposed to go through..".

He told that the wrong methodology is followed in unaided schools only and lakhs of school teachers have been trained on ICT already..

"We have started ICT Enabled education in 2009-10 in 8th standard. ( pl see the Text book at Revised ICT textbook for standard 8 - Malayalam - English and a report in The Hindu athttps://www.itschool.gov.in/innewsImages/172_vvqicuc.jpg )
We have given clear instructions and detailed training to teachers on how to teach this text book. As per the circular from DPI, a teacher who hasn't got this training was/is not supposed to teach this text book. i am happy to inform you that we were able to train 25000 + teachers for Class 8 so far.. "

IT Director has assured to take steps to improve the curriculum of ICT in schools in unaided schools also.

It was heartening to note that the authorities have accepted that the methodology of teaching IT raised in the previous blog as defective and was not the intended methodology. In this regard the IT secretary replied as follows:

"We never envisages / disseminated the sort of 'What is a computer Monitor', 'How to open a document file' etc etc and consider such activities that are happening in all most all other streams as 'cyber crime'. Pl see the report about ICT intervention in Primary levels athttps://www.itschool.gov.in/innewsImages/222_ppabtmm.jpg and I am sure that you'll appreciate the text books we have prepared for the same."

Besides, the IT Director also assured that " that from the coming year onwards no students in the state stream need have to appear for written examination in ICT"

I appreciate the officers concerned for prompt responses to the issues raised and observing the seriousness of the issue and also positively responding to the matter.

SCERT has not been advertising posts.. Is there irregularities in recruitment? letter to SCERT Director

To

The Director

SCERT, Thiruvananthapuram

Sir,

Someone close to me has been working in B.Ed training colleges since last 15 yrs. She has good career record with M.Sc, M.Ed, UGC (NET) and Ph.D (Edu). She has been waiting for an opportunity to enter into teaching career in Education but could not find one till now.

She had applied for recruitment in SCERT around 1999-2001 when vacancies were advertised but even qualified candidates were not called for interview. Was there any appointment to those posts?? Why SCERT is not making appointment through PSC?

Out of the 220 plus B.Ed colleges, all except 17 aided colleges and 4 government colleges are in the private sector and self financing sector run directly by universities. They employ teacher on contract basis and pay small salaries only. There is no job security, no allowances, no pension or not even medical allowances. One can get job in one of the 17 aided colleges only by influencing, or money power or caste power.

PSC conducted recruitment to the Government training colleges but the priority was given to 'by transfer' candidates who are already employed in the government institutions. 

The SCERT, as I know, have not advertised any vacancy since last 15 years even though it is involved deeply in the field of teacher training and research. It is also heard that you had appointed faculty by giving permanent employment to those who were working on contract basis there. If it is so, it is plain corruption, and challenging the democratic system of the country and the recruitment system through the public service commission. I would like to know more about this.

The SCERT website does not reveal any job opportunities there. Most of the links in that website lead nowhere. A section on "announcement" too has broken links. It is teasing the public, such an important organisation with important activities functioning without transparency to the public. 

Why SCERT is avoiding those who have high qualifications on UGC NET on Education and also PhD in Education etc. and recruit through internal arrangements to the plum posts of lecturers and other positions there?

I am interested to know more about the functioning of SCERT with respect to recruitment policy, whether it has been fairly recruiting faculty and other officers to various positions, why it is avoiding the qualified teacher educators working in the private and self financing sector who have UGC NET and PhD in Education, in its training activities.

Is there corruption in the organisation with respect to appointments?

Yours truly

Sreekumar B

Email: sree1010@gmail.com

copy submitted to 

Secretary, General education

TET for teachers of unaided must follow regulations to ensure remuneration at par with govt/aided teachers

I searched for the Government Order for TET and found it HERE.

The teachers in the Government institutions are right now selected based on PSC tests. So TET is set as part of minimum qualifications to attend for the PSC test, I think. That is good.


I agree with the Government stance that -"Government have the academic responsibility to ensure that a teacher appointed should possess the minimum qualification  for teacher"

The appointments to aided institutions at present is based on the amount of money that the candidate pays as "donation" (a veiled bribe in broad daylight -selling government post by managements to make money..daylight robbery). At least I believe that TET will ensure that the ones appointed as teachers will be having minimum eligibility and capacity to occupy the post.

But what about the teachers of the unaided institutions. The government has not been considering them as part of the education system; They are paid only a pittance of what the government and aided school teachers get. So burdening them with TET and other qualifications without ensuring that they are paid like human beings at par with the former guys is inhuman and the Government have the responsibility to ensure their remuneration at par with the aided and government institutions.

Government ignoring unaided/self financing institutions

The government officials on the top fail to recognise that unaided and self financing institutions are also important part of the education in the State.

Please visit the web portal of Directorate of Collegiate Education named The Scholar.

at http://www.thescholar.kerala.gov.in/thescholar/main/teacher_tabpane_2.php

If a college 'teacher' (not even called lecturer) from unaided college or self financing institution tries to register there is no provision for registration. The options given are:

Engineering Colleges
Freelance
Government/aided colleges
Medical Colleges
University departments
Veterinary colleges

No Unaided/ Self-Financing Institution Option

The education department bosses do not recognise that unaided/self financing colleges are part of the education system. In most areas the government/aided institutions constitute only a minor portion of the whole. The majority of the public is catered by unaided/self financing institutions.
In teacher education government and aided colleges constitute only less than10% of the colleges. The rest 90% of the unaided/self financing colleges are catering to the educational needs of the State. Yet this sector is neglected. The States resources are shared among the few government and aided colleges and the rest 90% are not even considered as colleges and the faculty members working in these institutions are not given any privileges at all.

The officials are cleverly closing their eyes towards the existence of unaided/ self financing institutions and pretend that it is not their responsibility... They fail to see that their duty is governance and the whole education system comes under governance of the State. The State cannot ignore the majority sector and leave it to the private players. The teachers and human resources in these colleges are also important part of the system

SCERT website is not updated. Links leading nowhere

Websites are important communication links in the modern times. Government websites need to be updated to enable public to get information and transact important details with the Government.

I visited SCERT (State Council of Educational Research and Training) website (http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/) and went to important Links page. I found that most of the links are not working or are leading to irrelevant sites.
I have taken pains to test the links of the websites given and the results I found are given below. The red highlighted links do not work at all. And please click the link of NIEPA (an important institution in Delhi); it takes you to some private website; and so does the link of NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education)
Please click the links listed in the webpage below and see..
(http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/links.htm)

A website reveals a lot about the organisation

Our educational administrators are too busy!!

Our educational administrators in India are too busy. They don't have time to even read their websites or update them.

I went to CIET website at http://www.ciet.nic.in/ and from their I tried to open SIET Kerala website. I got the following home page for SIET website.

The page asked 'did you mean sietkerala.org. I clicked the link. then I got the following page

Then I clicked the link for SIET Gujarat website. I got this home page

When I clicked the SIET webpage link of Orissa, Andhra, Pune I got similar results as Kerala SIET. The UP SIET website was more funny
http://www.india9.com/i9show/State-Institute-of-Educational--Technology-(SIET)-47896.htm

"Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation (CCE) does not mean conducting examinations every 15 days": Kapil Sibal

Our stupid educational administration community has been doing just that- conducting comprehensive and continuous evaluation every 15 days. Our poor children have to attend class tests, monthly tests Onam and Christimas exams and final tests. The people who frame curriculum envisages reducing learning burden of children; but what they do is interpreted to overload the school child by the lakhs of educational administration bosses in India.

Kindly read the following article
http://news.icbse.com/core-curriculum-science-mathematics-394

External agencies swarm down on Schools to catch children -Children used for business and social brainwashing

In our young days Shastra Sahitya Parishad was active in the Schools with their quizzes and selling their books and magazines. They created a market for their products by getting children involve in the quizzes. They gave away prizes and published the photos of the winners in their magazines. School kids were seen studying their books to win the quizzes. The questions in the quiz programs were based on knowledge and contents present in the Parishad's textbooks; so without reading these books kids cannot win, whatever be their learning from other sources. I had bought a number of Shastra Sahithya Parishad books in those days; the books were actually promoting aethist/ communist ideologies hidden in them.

Now more such agencies are active in our schools with their marketing strategies. The coaching agencies for Engineering and Medicine entrance tests are conducting quiz programs offering 'scholarships' for the winners. In fact most of the students who appear for the scholarship tests get 'scholarships'. Scholarship is for enrolling in their coaching program that costs around Rupees Ten Thousand per student. The students are netted without even they know what is happening. Instead of advertising and waiting for clients the clever business men are invading schools with variety of strategies like this.

An agency called TIME conducts such s 'scholarship exams' at National level Kairali Vijnana Pareeksha, Hindi Bhashan, Science/Maths/English Olympiad, Green Olympiad, Power Quiz conducted by Kerala State Electricity Board etc..etc.. My kids, like hundreds of other kids won the TIME scholarship exam and they telephoned me to reach their office and collect certificate. When I reached their I saw a mother of a kid being canvassed, who have come their for similar purpose, being canvassed by their front office personnel to enrol her kid for the course. The course that costs Rs.11000 will be offered for Rs.9500 to her kid because the kid had won the 'scholarship' -A clever tactic to trap the parents and kids into their coaching scheme. 

The "Power Quizzes" organised by the Officer's Association of the KSEB engages students to learn about KSEB but questions are definitely embedded to promote campaigns the leftist Association are taking up. Though relatively innocuous, such Power Quizzes too intend to influence the parents and society through the kids.

If such tendencies are not curtailed soon the schools will be used by every kind of business, social and religious activities to get children engaged for promoting their ideologies and products.

Should the society allow such business interests to use schools and school kids for promoting their products? Is it ethical to use innocent children to promote ideologies and products, camouflaged as quiz programs, scholarship exams etc.?

Shabby Text books -created by the God Gurus of the God's on Land

Kerala is self proclaimed 'God's own land' but the way officials and teachers do their work here is not that 'godly'. The textbooks of Kerala State syllabus are printed on newsprint quality paper; printed in black and white; diagrams are not clear and texts are not legible.