Lakshadweep Schools To Change To English Curriculum From Malayalam From Coming Year

Lakshadweep Schools: The Lakshadweep education department has declared that, in an effort to “elevate the standard of education” and “align with the dynamic educational landscape,” all of its schools will transition from SCERT Malayalam to CBSE English starting in the upcoming academic year.

Students to switch to English-speaking schools

The director of education, Rakesh Dahiya, issued an order on Tuesday stating that starting in Class 1, all schools would only accept students enrolled in the CBSE English medium stream beginning with the 2024–2025 academic year. Beginning with the following academic year, all current Malayalam-speaking students in Classes 2 through 8 will switch to CBSE English. The change will be “systematically executed” for students in Classes 9 and 10 over the course of two years, with “minimal disruption to ongoing board examinations.”

“This migration is designed to equip students with essential skills and knowledge for their future academic and professional pursuits recognising the substantial role of the CBSE curriculum in preparing students for competitive examinations and 21st century skills,” the order said.

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New Education Policy guidelines to be followed by Lakshadweep schools

According to the department, the New Education Policy’s guidelines will be followed when offering English, Malayalam, and Hindi. “This approach ensures comprehensive learning of the three languages and alleviates the burden on students, preventing the necessity to learn more than three languages during the school studies,” the education department said.

In Lakshadweep, there were 51 schools as of the 2022–2023 school year, with 1,021 teachers and over 8,200 students. A government school headmaster, who did not want to be identified,said, “This is absolutely wrong. The option of choosing the medium of instruction should be left to the students and the parents. It should not be imposed on them. Moreover, the students currently in Malayalam medium will find it hard to adapt to the CBSE English medium curriculum suddenly next year. The people here have a mostly ordinary social background and may want their kids to be taught in Malayalam. They should be given that right.”