Monday, July 12, 2010

Uniform syllabus has oriental schools worried

Intended as a uniform syllabus to nullify differences across boards, 'Samacheer Kalvi' now has the heads of Oriental schools worried. They feel it may rob their institutions of their special linguistic character, the reason why they were established under a separate stream by the state government in 1951.

"Our schools were set up with the purpose of promoting the study of Arabic and Sanskrit languages. Parents admit their children to Oriental schools knowing that greater emphasis will be paid to these languages and it will enable them to read and learn religious scriptures better,"said G S M P Khadri, secretary and correspondent of Murthuzaviya Foundation which runs the Murthuzaviya Oriental Higher Secondary School in Triplicane.

Full report here Times of India 

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