NOTES ON THE NEWS - Kerala Education Bill. The Kerala Education Bill, of which only a news agency summary has been available, is an important piece of legislation. It will be welcomed by teachers, especially of aided primary schools, whose lot have been pathetic and have met only with in effective public sympathy, all over the country. The amelioration of the teacher’s condition is the central object of the bill. The bill has been published after the proposals put forward during the budget sessi [...]

THOUGHTS for LOWBROWS With liability and responsibility for views strictly limited By Homa ISSUES IN THE KERALA EDUCATION BILL: Kerala being the laboratory retort for Communist experiments in India most people here and elsewhere would doubtless be interested to know what is taking place there. On taking charge of the administration, the Communist Government of Kerala had advertised far and wide that they would solve the food and unemployment problems of the State, give shelter to the homeless, l [...]

A Double-edged Bill The Kerala Education Bill is a perplexing measure; it contains much that is desirable but also dangerous possibilities. Many school managements in all States thoroughly incompetent, apathetic and worse. Teachers in such schools, not only in Malabar, cited by Kerala’s Education Minister, Mr. Mundassery, would indeed welcome the schools being taken over by the government, for that normally spells security-of tenure and payment-and better conditions of service. It is also encour [...]

Cause for Misgivings “………………It would appear that the Government of Kerala has started at the right end. The kerala Education Bill, which has been just published, aims primarily at improving the aided schools in the State through extending control over management and through recruitment of the right type of teachers. It may be noted that the Bill provides for extension of pension, provident fund and insurance benefits to teachers in private aided schools, the entire cost of which will be borne by [...]

Schools and the State The Kerala Government’s bill for reorganising and reforming school education has been necessitated as mach by the need to bring about uniformity in the three different regions for Travancore Cochin and Malabar as by the Communist urge to secularise and standardise education. While it seeks power to take over, for a limited period, any aided school whose present management had neglected its duties, the main purpose of the bill is to deal with the general situation rather tha [...]