Education in Kerala What will be the effects of the Kerala Education Bill which has been passed despite opposition both within and outside the State legislature? Will it lead to more efficient running of schools and speedier spread of education in the State? Direct answers to these questions are not contained in the Bill’s provisions several of which have been substantially modified. Teachers, perhaps, may have a better deal and it may no longer be possible for private agencies to mismanage scho [...]

Kerala Education Bill The huge demonstration in Trivandrum this week to protest against the Kerala Education Bill seems to show that a large section of the public is not satisfied with the Bill even after the considerable changes that have been suggested by the Select Committee. It is now clear that the Government were unwise to produce a Bill of this sort without first asking a competent and impartial educationalist to report in the state of primary education in Kerala. If they had done so, the [...]

A Controversial Bill If the previous Governments of what is now Kerala had done anything very substantial for the improvement of education then sweeping condemnation of the Kerala Education Bill would have been better justified. The Bill, indeed, can be much improved through modification and if the Government renounces some of the powers it originally claimed, that should reassure many. The announcement that the panel of teachers would be prepared by the Public Service Commission is welcome and [...]

Regimentation of Education The Education Bill sponsored by the Communist Government of Kerala, has some interesting features. One of them is the provision that teachers in aided schools will be paid directly from the Government Treasury and that they will be entitled to all pension, provident fund, insurance and other benefits available to teachers in Government service. For the ill-paid and irregularly paid teachers this would, of course, be a very welcome measure. The managements of schools wi [...]

Bowing to the Storm In agreeing to withdraw some of the more objectionable features in its Education Bill, the Kerala Government has shown not only tact but a fine sense of its own future interests. Though the main purpose was to give a statutory basis to existing practices, so as to make them easily and strictly enforceable, many of the provisions affecting the rights of managements and custing the jurisdiction of courts were, with some reason, suspected to be an attempt to acquire a strangleho [...]

THE FORTNIGHT AT HOME. The Kerala Education Bill. BY OBSERVER. Even if any measures sponsored by a Communist Government were not ipso facto suspect, there has been sufficient scare mongering by small-minded men in big organizations to prevent an unbiased and cool study of the legislative proposals of the Kerala administration. The ministry too has added to the confusion by some curious and ostensibly untenable statements. Last week it was suggested that the central Government had blessed the pro [...]