Higher education council publishing bilingual textbooks for UG courses

For a clean transition from Telugu to English as a medium of instruction within the diploma faculties within the State, the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) is publishing bilingual textbooks for the Under-Graduate programmes.

“This is to create certain comfort for the students to understand the core concepts and enable them to switch to English medium totally in a course of time,” stated K. Hemachandra Reddy, APSCHE Chairman.

E-content

The council additionally plans to supply bi-lingual e-content within the type of video and audio lectures via its Learning Management System (LMS) platform for the educational 12 months 2021-22.

“Besides organising Faculty Development Programmes to upskill the teaching staff to enable them to handle the English medium sections, colleges have been requested to conduct special sessions on English communication skills, particularly for students who are facing problems with English medium,” Mr. Reddy instructed The Puucho.

The State authorities has determined to put off Telugu as a medium of instruction in all of the UG faculties from the educational 12 months 2021-22 and introduce obligatory English medium. The authorities is of the view that the transition will probably be simpler on the commencement stage.

The APSCHE has requested all personal unaided and aided diploma faculties providing Telugu medium courses to submit proposals for conversion of the Telugu medium courses into English medium.

“Learning English as a subject and learning all subjects in English has a significant difference. The association with English language is less when we learn it as a subject. But while learning all subjects in English, the association with the foreign language increases and students tend to become more confident about English language,” noticed Mr. Reddy.

With a perception that the ‘Future of Work’ calls for data in English, which will be met by learning UG in English medium, the authorities are hopeful that the inherent inhibitions of the scholars will wane away.

Employers’ desire

Citing the findings of India Skills Report-2019, during which English figured among the many high three expertise together with studying agility and flexibility, Mr. Reddy stated about 90% of the employers within the nation thought-about English language expertise as “important for their organisation.”

The incontrovertible fact that solely 25% of the scholars had enrolled for Telugu medium for courses resembling BA, B.Sc, B.Com and different programmes for 2020-21 additionally contributed to the federal government choice.

Of the overall 65,981 college students enrolled, 24,007 are in BA, 16,925 in B. Com, 24,960 in B.Sc and 89 in others.

Taking observe of this, Chief M‌inister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, in a evaluate assembly with the officers of the Department of Higher Education, determined that diploma faculties within the State would supply courses in English medium solely henceforth.