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Copies of dictionary distributed to Corporation school students

Friday, 17 July 2009 05:05 administrator
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The Hindu 17.07.2009

Copies of dictionary distributed to Corporation school students

Staff Reporter

The scheme was announced in the civic body’s budget

— Photo: Chennai Corporation

Eager learners: Students of Corporation High School in Thyagappa Street in Kilpauk go through the dictionaries that were distributed on Thursday.

CHENNAI: Over 39,000 students of Chennai Corporation schools studying in Standards VI, VII and VIII received free copies of English-English-Tamil dictionary on Thursday.

Mayor M. Subramanian, who launched the scheme, said the decision to provide dictionaries to the students was announced in the civic body’s budget this year. An expenditure of Rs.56.67 lakh had been incurred for the scheme. The objective was to help provide better understanding of English and Tamil to the children, he added.

Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni, who urged students to use the dictionary extensively, said it would help them understand difficult words. The Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation had brought out the dictionary.

The dictionary, which has been prepared by a team of experts, has around 11,000 words, synonyms and antonyms, word usages, derivations and proverbs, Mr. Lakhoni added.

It also has expansions for abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, cries of animals/birds, manias and phobias, tenses.

Deputy Commissioner Education M. Balaji, Education Officer Mohan Kumar and Zone Chairman S.Suresh Babu participated.

Students of Standard VII in Corporation High School on Thyagappa Street in Kilpauk, S. Kavitha and S. Nandhini, who received the first few copies of the dictionary, said that they had small copies of dictionary at home, which they were using from time to time. P.Pravitha, their classmate, however, said that she did not posses a dictionary and that it would be useful to her.

Last Updated on Friday, 17 July 2009 05:07
 

Corpn to upgrade five schools

Thursday, 16 July 2009 07:35 administrator
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The Times of India 16.07.2009

Corpn to upgrade five schools

CHENNAI: After some embarrasing moments over the merger of schools, the state government is taking steps to shore up the image of the Chennai Corporation. According to school education minister Thangam Thennarasu, five corporation-run schools will be upgraded in the current academic year.

"At least two middle schools and three high schools will be upgraded to high and higher secondary schools this year," Thennarasu said in the assembly on Wednesday.

Earlier, at a function at a school in Saidapet to commemorate former chief minister K Kamaraj's birth anniversary, Mayor M Subramanian said the upgradation would help students continue in the same schools instead of seeking admission elsewhere after completing middle and high schools.

The schools being upgraded are CHS Pudupakkam in Velachery, CHS MGR Nagar, CHS Kalyanapuram in Pulianthoppe and middle schools at Thiruvenkadasamy in Pulianthoppe and Kannammapet in Kodambakkam. About 38,000 students of corporation middle schools will get Tamil-English dictionaries on Thursday, while arrangements have been made to give away shoes and bags soon, the Mayor said.
 

Lack of Corporation-run higher secondary schools a major hitch

Sunday, 12 July 2009 07:57 administrator
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The Hindu 12.07.2009

Lack of Corporation-run higher secondary schools a major hitch

Syed Muthahar Saqaf and M. Balaganessin

Even ‘municipality schools’ are run by the Directorate of School Education

— Photos: R. Ashok & M. Moorthy

D. Gowri, Teacher, Child Labour Special School, Ambikapuram: “The possibility of increase in drop-out rate beyond SSLC should not be ignored”.


Dr. R. Rajendran, former Headmaster, K.A.P. Viswanatham HSS: “Students from the city slum areas are the worst hit”.

— Photo: R.M. Rajarathinam

More institutions needed: Corporation High School, E.B. Road, in Tiruchi.

TIRUCHI: Absence of Corporation-run higher secondary schools in Tiruchi has been a major handicap for the students completing the SSLC, the qualifying examination for admission to the Plus One course.

Although, during the 1960s and 70s, the then Tiruchi municipality had attached priority for starting a number of Municipal primary and middle schools, adequate follow-up was not in place for upgrading these institutions in to the next higher category, forcing the students to join in the private / aided schools for pursuing their higher studies.

Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore cities account for many Corporation higher secondary schools, providing good educational opportunity to youngsters belonging to the economically downtrodden sections. The Corporation Higher Secondary Schools run by Coimbatore Corporation produce very good results in the public examinations.

Tiruchi Corporation, though a major local body, is yet to take adequate effort to start a higher secondary school. Even its lone High School and numerous middle schools continue to be called as ‘municipality schools’. The Corporation is taking care of only the maintenance of these schools at present, and they are being run by the Directorate of School Education.

The absence of Corporation higher secondary schools has caused much resentment among the economically weaker sections, educationists and the organisations involved in the elimination of the child labour menace.

Apart from the Corporation-run schools providing higher education at a very low cost, the ambience of continuing the education within the same campus or at a school in the periphery of a student’s residence, will enhance his/her academic efficiency, educationists feel.

The students completing middle school-level education at the municipal schools face a lot of difficulty in gaining admission to the government aided schools for continuing their education.

The municipal middle schools in airport area and K. K. Nagar have a good student strength and adequate space for immediate expansion/upgrading proposals. If upgraded into higher secondary schools, they will do the best educational service to the needy. The Corporation should take the initiative with immediate effect, the locals feel.

The former Headmaster of K.A.P. Viswanatham Higher Secondary School, R. Rajendran, says that students hailing from urban slums in the city were the worst-hit due to the absence of Corporation HSS. At times, the economic non-affordability of several parents prevents their wards from pursuing education beyond SSLC. He laments that even the number of Government-run higher secondary schools in the city was few and far between, not commensurate with the strength of SSLC-qualified students. “The finger-count Government Higher secondary schools do not and cannot accommodate all the eligible pupils”, Dr. Rajendran says.

Last Updated on Sunday, 12 July 2009 08:15
 
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