Self-financing arts, science colleges likely: Soopy

By Our Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA, NOV. 17. The Education Minister, Mr. Nalakath Soopy, has said that the Government was seriously thinking of sanctioning arts and science colleges and higher secondary schools in the self-financing sector.

The Minister was inaugurating a programme in connection with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Catholicate College here today.

The Minister said the managements of many unaided schools with excellent track records had already approached the Government seeking self-financing Plus Two institutions as well as arts and science colleges.

Mr. Soopy said the Government's poor financial position seldom permitted it to sanction any more aided schools and colleges in the State. The State Planning Board was of a similar view on the issue, he added.

Mr. Soopy said the Government was seriously considering setting up a higher education council incorporating all the universities in the State.

Another proposal before the Government was to set up schools following foreign syllabus in different parts of the State for the children of Gulf Malayalis, the Minister added.

He lauded the role of Christian educational institutions in the development of the State's education sector.

The manager of the Malankara Orthodox Church Colleges, Philippose Mar Eusebius, presided. Mr. Justice Benjamin Koshy of the High Court inaugurated the legal cell at the college.

The Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Dr. N. Raveendranath, delivered the keynote address. The Director of the College Development Council, Dr. K.G. Narayana Pillai, Mr. K.K. Nair, MLA, Prof. Madhu Eravankara, Prof. John Kurien and the college principal, Rev. K.T. Mathewkutty, also spoke.

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