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Soon, updated term books for school students

Meera Srinivasan

Entire syllabus for the term in one book

CHENNAI: A couple of leading publishers have come out with updated editions of term books for students of matriculation schools.

Orient Longman is launching a revised package of term books for students of primary classes, based on the revised matriculation schools' syllabus.

An all-in-one

A term book essentially comprises first/second/third term syllabus of various subjects, bound into one unit. This means that it would be sufficient to carry one textbook, as against four or five, otherwise, in each term.

Macmillan, too, has come out with a revised edition of term books for students of classes one to five, under the matriculation board. These books, to be launched soon, have been updated with inputs from teachers, heads and leading educationists.

A set of 15 books in all (titled Petals), comprising three `term books' per class, will be launched. They have also come out with `Happy English', based on the latest matriculation syllabus, to aid English teaching.

"We propose to hold a meet for teachers and heads of various schools, during the launch," said R. Mohan Krishnan, senior vice-president, Macmillan Chennai.

"Our primary concern is the well-being of the child. Many have expressed concern about the load children are made to carry, right from their primary classes. This would have a long-term harmful effect on the physical well-being of the child, particularly on the spine.

Psychologically, too, it is daunting to carry so much weight," says Vani Vasudevan, Publisher, Schools Division, Orient Longman.

After people such as R.K. Narayan (as an MP had) raised the issue in Parliament, syllabus-framing authorities, including NCERT, started acknowledging the problem, she said.

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