Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Oct 25: The state education department has announced a reduction of 30% in PU syllabus for the academic year 2020-21 due to coronavirus pandemic. However, in the process, important lessons, which are vital to the subject have been omitted.
In political science important lessons such as new trends in Indian politics, origin of politics, India against corruption, youth against terrorism, contemporary political phenomenon and many more are missing from the syllabus.
In business studies, contemporary topics such as financial marketing and marketing are not in the syllabus. In history subject of second PUC, lesson on India's first independence movement has been left out.
Students and parents have objected to the omission of important lessons which the students have studied in their online classes as well as study material that was given to them.
Though the lessons are taught online, it is felt that complete knowledge of the topics can only be imparted to students in the classroom. Parents feel that the reduction that is done is not right. However, reports suggest teachers are not content with 30% reduction, and a section of teachers has demanded further reduction.
In the present academic year, more than half the classes have already been lost without classroom teaching. In order to make best utilization of the remaining period in the academic year, the pre-university education board has taken the opinion and advice of expert educationists and reduced the syllabus by 30%. The details of the lessons that are removed from the syllabus has already been sent to all the lecturers. However, it is being argued that the removal of important lessons from the syllabus may prove costly for the future educational life of the students.
In the current academic year first PU students will get only 70% of the prescribed syllabus. However, in 2021-22, the same students will get 100% syllabus when they will be studying second PU. This will cause overload for science and commerce students. Hence the students have urged the government to think of conducting bridge courses. Students who intend to join professional or technical courses will also face problems. The students have urged the government to think of a suitable solution for these issues by the end of this academic year.