P.K. Sreemathy, MP, has said that the declining interest among students for a teaching career will have a serious impact on education.
Inaugurating the district panchayat’s ‘Mukulam’ scheme for providing extra student-centred support for improving results here on Tuesday, Ms. Sreemathy said that good teachers were essential in society for the shaping of good students.
As parents today were obsessed with the idea of making their wards doctors and engineers, there was a decline of interest for the teaching profession, she said. Such a tendency was unhealthy, she said.
Lauding the district panchayat’s initiative to improve the results in SSLC and higher secondary examinations, the MP said that the Mukulam scheme that ensured the joint efforts of teachers, parents and students was responsible for the district being a topper in SSLC results percentage for the past five years.
District panchayat vice-president T. Krishnan presided over the function. District Collector P. Bala Kiran delivered the keynote address. District panchayat president K.A. Sarala delivered the felicitation address. District panchayat standing committee chairperson P. Rosa and secretary M.K. Sreejith were also present. Academician K.N. Ganesh spoke on the issues facing the public education system in Kerala.
