Thousands of students in UP tune in to AIR to learn
English
BIJNOR: Thousands of children
studying in selected upper primary schools across Uttar Pradesh huddled
together around radio sets on Monday morning to listen to All India Radio's
show 'Aao Angrezi Sikhen' (let us learn English), an initiative of the state's
education department and the public broadcaster to arrest the sinking standard
of education in government schools.
The move aims to improve English of government school students, who lag behind their peers studying in public schools. Children of government schools in the northern hinterland also face difficulty in finding employment due to lack of knowledge of the language. Neighbouring Uttarakhand has already decided to shift the medium of instruction from Hindi to English in its schools.
Catching up with the changing trend, the Lucknow centre of AIR started the broadcast of the 15-minute programme from Monday. It will be aired on alternate days — Monday, Wednesday and Friday — between 10.45am to 11am for students of class 6 to 8.
This initiative will be monitored by school authorities, which will send a report on it to the state government.
The move aims to improve English of government school students, who lag behind their peers studying in public schools. Children of government schools in the northern hinterland also face difficulty in finding employment due to lack of knowledge of the language. Neighbouring Uttarakhand has already decided to shift the medium of instruction from Hindi to English in its schools.
Catching up with the changing trend, the Lucknow centre of AIR started the broadcast of the 15-minute programme from Monday. It will be aired on alternate days — Monday, Wednesday and Friday — between 10.45am to 11am for students of class 6 to 8.
This initiative will be monitored by school authorities, which will send a report on it to the state government.
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