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Only 1,939 candidates of the 23,900, who appeared for the Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KarTET) in English medium, cleared the test held in June this year.
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 The demand for an English-medium education is on the rise, with good English language skills being considered a crucial asset in the job market today. However, the number of teachers trained and qualified to teach English and in English-medium is not keeping pace with the demand.

Private schools have been frantically looking for such teachers and the situation is now all set to get worse. Only 1,939 candidates of the 23,900, who appeared for the Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KarTET) in English medium, cleared the test held in June this year.

This is significant because all schools — government, private or aided — can henceforth recruit only teachers who have cleared this eligibility test. This is part of a nationwide effort to set national standards and benchmark teacher quality in recruitment. The number of those who took the exam in English medium was far lower than those who took it in Kannada: 23,900 against 3.44 lakh candidates. Only 5.93 per cent of the applicants cleared the test.

The Kannada-medium scene is not particularly rosy either. Only 22,899 of over 3.86 lakh candidates who appeared for the examination qualified.

As 9,511 government teacher posts are likely to be filled this year, private school managements fear they will not have enough teachers to teach English. D. Shashi Kumar, organising secretary of the Karnataka State Private Schools Managements’ Federation, said managements would be “forced to violate the State government policy” and recruit teachers who have not cleared KarTET.

“We would rather have teachers who can speak English but have not cleared KarTET, than the other way round,” argued Mr. Kumar. With the high attrition rate among private school teachers, school managements cannot skip recruitments even for a year.

In this scenario, it remains to be seen whether the quality test for teachers will indeed serve its purpose. Educationists have long been arguing that the syllabus of B.Ed. and D.Ed. courses need to be revamped keeping in tune with the present requirements. The results of the KarTET further underlines the need for an urgent revamp, they say.

President of the Karnataka State Primary School Teachers’ Association, Basavaraj Gurikar, however, said the association had constantly opposed the KarTET exam. “Clearing an exam does not mean that the teacher will be able to teach effectively,” he said. He felt there was a serious need for the government to restrict the mushrooming of B.Ed. and D.Ed. colleges in the State


News Source :thehindu.com (04.09.2014)