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Education should change society: Baby

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Honouring teachers: Education Minister M.A. Baby giving away awards to heads of various government schools at a function organised in the city on Monday.

THRUVANANTHAPURAM: Education should be looked upon as a value system which transforms the individual and society, Minister for Education M.A. Baby has said.

He was speaking here at a function organised by the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to felicitate the heads of various government schools that had come out with good results at the last Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination.

“But our thinking now is to find out which subject combination can help a candidate to reap the maximum financial gain in the long run,” Mr. Baby said.

The Education Minister said there had been a steady increase in the percentage of SSLC results since 2006. The success percentage jumped from 68 to 92 in 2008, he said. “The results are the direct outcome of your hard work,” Mr. Baby told the teachers.

The government had conducted a ‘D-plus campaign’ aimed at motivating candidates who had the potential to secure a D-plus grade, the minimum qualification for higher studies, to aspire even higher, he said.

Referring to the various schemes started by the city corporation to raise the academic standards in schools, Mr. Baby was of the view that the collective concern should be on improving the existing schemes in the coming years.

The Education Minister later felicitated Santhamma Thomas, Principal, Government City Vocational Higher Secondary School; K. Dhas, Headmaster, Tamil School, Chala and P.S. Raman Thampi, Headmaster, Fisheries School; for their role in steering their institutions to a hundred per cent success in the SSLC examination.

The heads of nine government schools which registered a 95 per cent (and above) pass were also felicitated on the occasion.

Mayor C. Jayan Babu, who presided over the function, said the corporation had been distributing school bags and umbrellas to children at nurseries and Aganwadis.

Corporation’s education and health standing committee chairman G.R. Anil said the amount allocated for providing educational amenities to children had been raised from Rs.two lakh to Rs.six lakh this year. Students found weak in academics were being given special tuitions at the school after class hours, he said. The function was also attended by Deputy Mayor V. Jayaprakash.

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