Tamil Nadu

Vacancies to be soon filled with upgraded secondary grade teachers

THANJAVUR: The State government has issued orders to fill all vacancies for graduate teachers that arise in schools with secondary grade teachers who have upgraded themselves and acquired degrees through distance education mode said M. Kutralingam, Secretary, Tamil Nadu School Education Department, on Saturday.

He was speaking at the inauguration of a three-day second national convention of testing and evaluation organised by National Testing Service India at Tamil University here. In 2006-07, Mr. Kutralingam said, when the new government came to power it was decided that 50 percent of the vacancies would be filled with upgraded teachers. In 2007-08, the government made it cent per cent. Secondary grade teachers could use the opportunity and elevate themselves.

He released a publication “An introduction to evaluation terminology” at the conference. Tamil University Vice-Chancellor C. Subramaniam received the first copy. Alagappa University Vice-Chancellor P. Ramasamy called for the setting up of quality universities. He said as per the recommendation made by the Knowledge Commission, India required 1,500 universities. “But when the universities are created, they should be of quality. They should have the best infrastructure and the best teachers and they should compete with world standards. There is no university in India now, which can boast of world standards.” Nationwide, only seven per cent of the students pursued higher education. The rest stopped with school education. “We have to care for these 93 per cent,” Dr. Ramasamy said. He released a publication “Concept-based continuum of graded syllabi in languages.”

Vice-Chancellor of Periyar University M. Thangarasu released a publication “Concept-based Continuum of graded syllabi in literature.”

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