Hyderabad: The Telangana government is considering converting all government schools to English medium. The government will soon announce a new education policy after consulting experts.
 
Chief Minister KCR wants to introduce English medium in all government schools. He said the poor standards in government schools is ruining children. Officials also discussed the KG to PG scheme.
 
Five proposals were put forth at a meeting held on Saturday with the CM on education policy. It was proposed that all Telugu medium government schools be converted to English medium and the focus in the first year after that should be on learning English.
 
Teachers would also be instructed to teach only in English in government schools. Currently, there are about three to four English medium government schools in every mandal. The proposal to increase the number of residential schools in all mandals is also under consideration.
 
KCR said his aim was to see poor children study in English medium schools. “Education should be in English from the beginning itself. Those who can afford are sending their children to private schools. But poor people can’t afford private schools,” he said.
 
“The standards in government schools are not up to the mark,” he said. KCR also said he wanted to see the children of bureaucrats, politicians and the downtrodden study in the same school. He asked officials to conduct a workshop with experts and academicians on the new education policy.

Source: DC