Coimbatore: Professional English courses introduced last year for first year students of non-autonomous art students and science in this state will likely be removed from the next academic year.
This course was introduced to familiarize students with vocabulary related to their subjects and taught by the subject teachers concerned.
Initiated by the former Secretary of Higher Education S APOOREVA, it was introduced as an additional 1 hour per day added to par with core subjects.
Meanwhile it came into force since the academic year 2020-21, he drew as a core subject teacher without the background of the English literature requested to handle the subject.
Furthermore, it is also made mandatory for students to clean the paper to get their degree.
However, the steps received support from both private universities because they claimed it helped the core subject teachers to have a better interaction with students.
But, Tamil, Mathematics and Teachers from other subjects feel unfair to be asked to teach the subject of professional English.
“It’s also a learning experience for core teachers to teach English oriented through several workshops about dealing with this problem,” said staff of private art and science in Coimbatore said.
But there is a bad response from students for the course.
Professional English courses are introduced to the aim of helping government arts college students with rural backgrounds become proficient in English, read and write.
Students from rural areas past their degree but most of them do not have language skills to express themselves and lose when it comes to a better job, a senior official from the Ministry of Higher Education, which is part of the project, said.
“Discussions about scrapping professional English courses.
This may not be part of the syllabus from the next academic year.
The official announcement is expected immediately,” a senior official from the Tamil Nadu State Council for higher education (Tansche).
Last year, Rajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva took this problem with the Grants University (UGC) commission, which had asked the state government to overcome this problem correctly.
SIVA told the Toi which made the subject mandatory for students to clean them to get their degree rather hard when the offline class was impossible because of a pandemic.
“If the Department of Higher Education feels the subject is very important and it will make students capable in English, let them introduce them after a pandemic.
But non-English literary teachers are forced to handle professional English paper won’t take the desired results,” he said.
Secretary of the Joint Action Board of Tamil Nadu Lecture Teachers M Krishnaraj said that Tansche had convinced the course memo.
“English cannot be taught by other subject teachers and it will be ideal if handled by an English teacher,” he added.