Kannada – Medium School to teach English from first Standard
6,000 teachers will be trained to teach English, announces Horatti
Bangalore: The Karnataka Cabinet on Saturday decided to introduce English as a compulsory subject from the first standard in Kannada medium school from the coming academic year (2007).
Addressing Presspersons after a Cabinet meeting, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education basavaraj S.Horatti said both private and government schools would teach English from the first standard from June 2007. The Primary and Secondary Education Department would train 6, 000 teachers to teach English, Mr.Horatti said. In order to implement the three-languages formula the Cabinet decided to make the learning of Kannada compulsory in English-Medium schools from the first standard and from the third standard in schools run by linguistic minorities, such as Urdu and Marati schools. Kannada was now being taught as an optional subject from the third standard in schools run by linguistic minorities, he said.
Kannada – Medium School to teach English from first Standard
Bangalore: The Karnataka Cabinet on Saturday decided to introduce English as a compulsory subject from the first standard in Kannada medium school from the coming academic year (2007).
Addressing Presspersons after a Cabinet meeting, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education basavaraj S.Horatti said both private and government schools would teach English from the first standard from June 2007. The Primary and Secondary Education Department would train 6, 000 teachers to teach English, Mr.Horatti said. In order to implement the three-languages formula the Cabinet decided to make the learning of Kannada compulsory in English-Medium schools from the first standard and from the third standard in schools run by linguistic minorities, such as Urdu and Marati schools. Kannada was now being taught as an optional subject from the third standard in schools run by linguistic minorities, he said.
Kannada – Medium School to teach English from first Standard
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