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`No clarity on topics being taught to schoolchildren'

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Shankaramurthy calls for introspection on some issues

NEW FACILITY: Minister for Higher Education D.H. Shankaramurthy inaugurating a new building of M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing in Mangalore on Sunday. — Photo: R. Eswarraj

MANGALORE: There is no clarity on issues being taught to students, especially at the primary and high school level, Minister for Higher Education D.H. Shankaramurthy has said.

While students of sixth standard have a topic on female foeticide, students of ninth standard have to deal with issues such as prostitution, he said and added that there was a need to introspect on such topics which have crept into the syllabus.

Inaugurating the new college building of Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing at Panjimogaru, near here, on Sunday, Mr. Shankaramurthy said women's organisations sought his intervention to have the part of foeticide dropped from the textbooks.

Referring to endeavour by the Dr. M.V. Shetty Trust in starting courses such as speech and hearing and also procuring the necessary state-of-the-art equipment to treat people suffering from related problems, Mr. Shankaramurthy said such socially oriented initiatives on part of educationists was worth emulating. The Government is not in a position to provide such advanced facilities to people on its own, he said.

K.M. Kaveriappa, Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, who inaugurated the audiology section, said the initiative of the trust in starting paramedical courses at a time when others were keener to start professional courses was worth appreciating.

Stressing on the need for people involved in treating such people to have concentration and compassion, Dr. Kaveriappa advised the college to conduct research activities. Assuring help from the university to the college to conduct its academic programmes, especially those that were self-financing in nature, Mr. Kaveriappa said the university would find a via media in fixing the fee structure beneficial to all concerned.

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