[lbo-talk] more news from the motherland...

ravi listmail at kreise.org
Mon Nov 21 21:59:37 PST 2005


Chris Doss wrote:
>
> Thanks. Yikes. What does that imply for standardized
> education? The textbooks have to be translated into
> the respective local languages? That seems incredibly
> unwieldy.
>

Its more unweildy than that! Each state (AFAIK) has its own State Board of Education that decides curriculum, textbooks and administers examinations. There is additionally a Central Board with its own syllabus and exams, and for good measure, a few other additional Boards (ICSE, etc).

Then there are the mediums of education within the State Boards. In Tamil Nadu, for example, subjects are taught in two mediums: English and Tamil. Its been a while since I looked at the Tamil medium textbooks, but I do believe they are translated into the language from English, where relevant.

That said, the curricula [??] do tend to broadly track each other and lead only to moderate pain at the college level. There is probably some collaboration among the various boards -- I have an aunt who served a senior Education officer... her email use is sparse, but I will ping her nonetheless, for more info.

-- Horace Lowell



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