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KOTTAYAM: The Nair Service Society (NSS) has taken serious exception to the new guidelines issued by the Education Department for admission to the B.Ed. courses for the year 2005-06. In a strongly worded statement issued at Perunna on Tuesday, NSS general secretary P. K. Narayana Panicker asked the Government to take immediate remedial action to rectify the predicament arising out of the new guidelines issued in this regard, which, according to him, had created a situation where the unaided institutions were being appeased at the cost of the very functioning of aided teacher training institutions. The new policy would make teacher education unapproachable for the poorer sections of society, he said. It was on May 5, 2005, that the Government issued the new prospectus under the centralised seat-sharing scheme. As per the prospectus, the last date for submitting applications was May 31. However, on May 30, another amendment was issued in which the last date was extended to June 10. According to Mr. Panicker, this was aimed at helping those institutions which were given affiliation after May 5. He also took exception to the liberalisation in the admission norms as it would affect the standard of teacher education. As per the new rule, the difference in weightage given in the index marks for those who had availed multiple chances for completing course, had been cancelled. Presently, the index marks would be same whether you had passed the degree examinations in the first chance or the fourth chance . The rules had been liberalised with regard to the minimum marks for the SC/ST segments and also for SEBC and OEC. Speaking to The Hindu, NSS assistant secretary G. Sukumaran Nair pointed out that the aided institutions were already facing a major crisis on account of the Government apathy in sanctioning new teacher posts in the institutions to fulfil the NCTE stipulations. The managements were already burdened with the cost of paying for guest lecturers. Under the new system, the managements would have control over only 15 per cent of the seats; the rest being filled from the centralised seat-sharing scheme. On the other hand, the unaided institutions would have control over 50 per cent of the seats. He asked the Government to take immediate steps to rectify the anomaly in the system.
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