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Time of India
3 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Kannada medium schools face low enrolment as parents prefer bilingual options
Mangaluru: Despite the success of Kannada-English bilingual schools in Dakshina Kannada, traditional Kannada medium schools on the same campuses continue to suffer from poor enrolment. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now As of now, the district has a total of 123 bilingual schools spread across all taluks. According to officials, the majority of these Kannada medium schools have single-digit admissions to Class 1. This highlights a growing preference for English-integrated education in the district, posing a significant challenge to the future of Kannada medium instruction schools. HR Eshwara, BEO, South, told TOI there is a growing demand for bilingual schools across the district since they teach both in Kannada and English. However, parents have misunderstood that it is a purely English-medium school. As a result, there are few admissions to traditional Kannada medium schools with Kannada being the medium of instruction. The permissible admission to these bilingual schools in a batch for a year is 30. There are instances where teachers ask the parents to admit their children into Kannada medium schools when they demand bilingual education. It is done based on the teachers' evaluation of the child's academic strength. "Though the parents force teachers to admit them into the bilingual medium, teachers counsel them to join the Kannada medium as they are required to be part of Nali-Kali, a project to ensure early literacy competencies in Kannada language learning, basic numeracy, and environmental science. The three-year Nali-Kali helps a child to equip themselves with academic knowledge. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now If the parent is unwilling, the teachers send them to admit them to a bilingual medium," said Eshwara. BEOs pointed out that there is more demand for English medium schools, and it is leading to a rush at bilingual medium schools. Parents insist that their ward be admitted to these schools. "Soon, these Kannada medium schools on bilingual medium school campuses will shut down due to poor admissions. We cannot force parents to join Kannada medium schools, and teachers are helpless," said one of the BEOs. On the other hand, many parents, especially from North Karnataka, prefer only Kannada-medium schools. Krishnappa said that while locals prefer bilingual medium schools, migrants from North Karnataka prefer only Kannada medium schools. In the academic year 2019-20, a total of 48 bilingual schools were sanctioned for the first time, and it has 123, with three schools being permitted this academic year. The total admitted students in these schools is around 3,000.
Time of India
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
School association condemns government's disciplinary actions
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Karnataka Private School Managements Training Expressing strong concern and disappointment, the state's school association has written to, opposing the recent move to issue notices to District Deputy Directors of Public Instruction (DDPIs) over poor Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) results in certain districts. Siddaramaiah on Saturday had instructed the Chief Secretary to issue formal notices to the Deputy Directors of Public Instruction (DDPIs) in districts where the SSLC exam results were below 60%. The CM further directed that if the responses to these notices are found unsatisfactory, strict action should be taken against the concerned a letter to the CM, the association stated that while accountability is essential, punitive actions against officials without a thorough understanding of systemic issues amount to misplaced priorities. 'Issuing notices to DDPIs may appear to be a corrective measure, but it overlooks deep-rooted policy failures and long-standing ground-level challenges,' the letter noted.'We criticise the absence of structured consultation with teachers, school heads, and education experts, despite multiple comparative studies and reports being submitted to the government. We stress that the recent dip in SSLC performance is not a reflection of individual negligence but the result of systemic shortcomings,' said Shashi Kumar D, General Secretary of Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka (KAMS) and Convenor of, Teaching & Non Teaching Staff Co-ordination Committee (KPMTCC). He said that these include the lack of continuous reforms at foundational levels, the poor implementation of the National Council of Educational Research and(NCERT) based spiral curriculum, the failure of the Nali-Kali framework, and the ineffectiveness of District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) in providing relevant pedagogical like CRPs, BEOs, and DDPIs, the letter stated, are often overburdened with administrative tasks, leaving little room for academic mentoring. 'When the system prioritises showing results over genuine learning, it breeds artificial performance and data manipulation—practices that endanger long-term educational integrity,' the association also raised concerns about the overuse of grace marks, calling it a band-aid solution that conceals the underlying learning crisis. Instead, they proposed the introduction of a more meaningful internal assessment system aligned with NCERT methodologies, starting from early grades. Calling the crisis 'a systemic challenge, not an individual lapse,' the association urged the Chief Minister to halt demoralising disciplinary actions and instead focus on deeper said that there is a need for review of education policy in line with the 2019 Right To Education (RTE) amendment, along with foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) programmes to revive quality education at the primary level. 'There is also a need for creation of an apolitical, consultative platform comprising MLAs from teachers' and graduates' constituencies, education experts, senior officials, and teacher associations to guide long-term education reforms,' he said.
