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`Steps will be taken to prevent repeated revision of syllabus'

Staff Reporter

Guidelines will be formulated to suggest how often it should be changed: Horatti

ANNOUNCING DECISION: Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti with teachers at a panel discussion on elementary education system in the State, at National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: V. S reenivasa Murthy

Bangalore: The State Government will take steps to prevent repeated revision of syllabus at the school level and guidelines will be formulated to suggest how often it should be changed, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basavaraj Horatti said here on Saturday.

Speaking at a panel discussion on policy priorities for elementary education, which was part of a workshop on "Karnataka's Elementary Education System: Experiences, Achievements and Future Challenges" organised by the National Institute for Advanced Studies, Mr. Horatti said a model pattern would be chalked out according to which the syllabus would be revised in a consistent manner. "We will take steps so that revision of syllabus is done only after holding consultations with experts, to avoid having any political bias," he said.

Mr. Horatti said D. Ed. and B. Ed. training institutes had mushroomed in the State, but many of them were not running classes, while students from other States were coming to some of these institutes only to write examinations and take certificates.

The overnment would review the teacher training programmes and would initiate action against such institutes, which were violating the norms laid down by the Government, he said.

A policy for primary and secondary education would be introduced by the end of the year, which would lay down guidelines for concrete improvements in the elementary education system by 2010. A committee headed by the former Director for Secondary Education Jagannath Rao had been set up to give suggestions, Mr. Horatti said. Responding to a suggestion by Vasavi, coordinator, District Quality Education Project of NIAS, to introduce classes from first to eighth standard in ashram schools in tribal areas so that students don't have to travel long distances to attend school, he assured that the Government would take steps in this regard.

A teacher observed that many teachers were discriminating against HIV positive children and even parents did not want to send their children to schools with HIV positive students.

"How can a teacher talk about HIV/AIDS awareness as a nodal officer when he/she himself discriminates against positive children," she asked. To this, the Minister said concerted efforts were being made to bring about awareness on the issue.

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