A careful glance at the Prime Minister’s message on the teacher’s day will appear as if he is reminding our Vice-Chancellor of some etiquette and culture that was completely missing during his tenure that has already expired. I quote verbatim from our Prime Minister’s speech on the teacher’s day September 5, 2010 – “Sadly, teachers are often excluded from policy making, governance and management of our educational system as also from day-to-day instructional strategies and decision making. In our endeavour for educational reforms we must, therefore, emphasize the empowerment of teachers and that includes real opportunity for them to share policy perspectives and decision-making in pursuit of educational development and reforms. It is my belief that all teachers are creative, talented people; teachers respond remarkably when they are respected and included in the decision-making integral to their work in the classroom. They gain a sense of ownership over their work and their classrooms, when they are involved in the development of the curriculum, designing of the syllabus, making and selecting of teaching materials and in training programmes leading to their own intellectual and professional development.” ( please visit http://www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-35103.html for the complete message). This statement clearly reasons out the failure of B.Sc. Program courses and recently implemented B.Sc. (H) Mathematics course.
Our unwanted vice-chancellor has recently been looking for some non-academic and un-teacher-like (read shameless) excuse by finding a hitherto unused provision given in the University Acts that exists only for those stubborn and unethical users who has no prestige at stake and is willing to continue as an unwanted vice-chancellor in the absence of any extension (read - when nobody is willing to give him extension). It is high time that our Vice-chancellor wakes up from the state of selective amnesia and starts recalling even those ordinances where rights of teachers in affecting syllabus-making and decision-taking is clearly and unambiguously written. Now the only way left for him to prove that some teacher-like-quality is still left within him – is to quit from his post without any delay.
