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AKPCTA State meet to begin tomorrow

By Our Staff Reporter

KOLLAM March 5. The 45th three-day State conference of the All Kerala Private College Teachers Association (AKPCTA) will begin here on March 7.

At a press conference here today, the State president of the association, Thomas Joseph, and the general secretary, A. Pratapachandran Nair, said that the conference would be formally inaugurated by the CPI(M) State secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan, on March 8.

The concept of ``Save and strengthen public funded and public controlled education'' has been adopted as the theme of the conference. Prof. Joseph said that it was without taking into consideration the international opinion on the role of higher education in nation building that the States and the Centre were evolving and implementing education policies in the country.

The conference would also take up for comprehensive discussion the topic of ``Changing perspectives of the World Bank and the lessons for Kerala''. A booklet on the subject was also formally released at the press conference.

The association pointed out that since the UDF assumed power, the Kerala model of education was being systematically dismantled and in its place the capitalist globalisation concept was being promoted. Even the traditional priority for education in the State budget had been upset. The figure has come down from 37 per cent in 1982-83 to 22 per cent at present.

Prof. Joseph said that the autonomous status being introduced in the education sector in Kerala was a ploy to allow the private sector loot the initial investment made by society and the UGC at later stages. An educational institution in the private sector was not the product of an entire private investment. There was much monetary contribution from the public too behind it.

Meanwhile, after the inaugural session on March 8, the CITU State general secretary, P.K. Gurudasan, will inaugurate an educational, cultural and trade union conference being organised in connection with the State conference.

In the evening, the AKPCTA will organise a rally and a public meeting at the Press Club maidan. The Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, will inaugurate the meeting.

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