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1 in 4 primary schools has no male teachers Campus Notes
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Tell the children Very little attention has been devoted to telling young students about birds and bees. Many adults are frightened to broach the topic and continue to adhere to the saying “Ignorance is bliss”. As a matter of fact, sex education is a topic where everyone fears to tread. A very important question arises that whose responsibility is it to impart knowledge about the facts of life? The parents or the teacher? Rather than disputing over the question, the answer is simple: it is the duty of both because children have the right to be informed. A very important query that arises is what is the appropriate age to talk about the facts of life? With the amount of information that the millennium child is bombarded with, it is best that the instructions are completed before the child attains puberty. The parents should have finished with the directions before the child’s companions feed him with half-baked truths. There are certain aspects of sex education that a child cannot appreciate, so it is best to deal with them later. If the young learner asks about the newborn sibling, do not make excuses like “the stork brought it”. It is the right time to explain facts to the child. After parents, it is the responsibility of the school to take over. Teachers have to be open minded and should answer the questions put to them. Children of today pick up a lot of information at an early age from films, newspapers, magazines, conversation of elders, Internet, etc. If parents and teachers operate with a closed mind, the young generation will always turn to the gutter press for answers. Human physiology should be dealt with in the same way as we deal with geometry or an English poem. Sex education should be equally fit for discussion as the other subjects. It should rather be made part of the daily curriculum. Every great work of literature has a sexual content and this presents an excellent possibility of using it as a medium of positive sex education. A sociology teacher can deal with this topic through a lesson on the institution of marriage, beginning from promiscuity to monogamy, disadvantages of polygamy and sex conventions of different cultures. A creative mentor can use Botticelli’s painting of “Birth of Venus” or Michael Angelo’s “Creation of Adam” to explain the physiological and the sensual sides of this forbidden topic. The mentor has to be open minded and should act as a guide and friend. Infatuation, hero-worship, love at first sight and sleazy tabloids are some areas he will be dealing with. Information about AIDS is another topic which students have to be made aware of. Sheena Bedi, a counsellor with the Education Department of the Chandigarh Administration, says, “The ‘sexual arena’ is in constant focus among the teens and in the absence of proper guidance, this can lead to more harm than good. Schools and the parents should not nurse a mental block but should rather join hands to play a significant part in imparting effective sex education to adolescents.” Putting aside our Victorian views, we need to teach our charges the true facts about birds and bees. |
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1 in 4 primary schools has no male teachers ALMOST one million primary school pupils are taught in schools without a male teacher —fuelling concern for the performance of boys in the classroom. Headteachers argue that the lack of male role models, particularly for boys from single-parent homes brought up by just their mother, can send a signal to boys about the importance attached to their education. The figures, published on Monday, show that more than one in four schools do not have a registered male teacher on their staff. There are only two men under the age of 25 working in state nursery schools in the whole country. The figures, published by the General Teaching Council (GTC) for England, have also fuelled fears that men are being put off applying for jobs because they fear they might be accused of being a paedophile. “It is absolutely essential that primary schools and indeed early years centres have men working in them,” said Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers. “It is particularly important where there are large numbers of children from single-parent families where there is no male role model at home.” However, he added: “One of the reasons they are put off is the assumption that, if you’re a male working in a primary school, there is a fair chance you will be accused of something some time or other. This is because, sadly, there are some people who clearly shouldn’t be working with children and, sadly, they generally happen to be males.” The numbers of men teaching in primary schools have fallen this year by 100 to 25,491—just 13 per cent of the total number. This is despite a campaign to encourage more men into the profession. In nursery schools, their numbers have fallen from 56 to 43. Last year’s overall recruitment figures showed the percentage of males was at its lowest level for five years. A study carried out for the Training and Development Agency, which is responsible for training teachers, said boys performed better in education if they have a male teacher in their primary school. The study of more than 1,000 men revealed that almost half (48 per cent) cited male primary teachers as having the most impact on them during their school life. In addition, 35 per cent said male primary school teachers had challenged them to work harder at school. The figures show 27 per cent of all primary schools in England have no registered male teachers—4,550 schools out of the 16,892 in the country. In all, that means about 945,000 five to 11-year-olds will never be taught by a man. —
By arrangement with The Independent
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Notes Pt. B. D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, the first and only university in the health sector, has witnessed a massive hike in its annual budget, thanks to benevolent attitude and extra attention paid by the government towards its upgradation and expansion of infrastructure. The university, earlier known as a medical college and institute, has been upgraded to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS). The total plan and non-plan expenditure of the institution, which was around 128.52 crore in the year 2007-08, has now gone up to Rs 191.88 crore this year. The plan expenditure has been raised to Rs 75 crore from Rs 58
crore, while the non-plan expenditure has been raised to Rs 116.87 crore from Rs 70.52
crore, said a senior official of the university. Besides this, the PGIMS had been selected by the Union Health Ministry for a special package under the national-level health upgradation
programme, "Pradhan Mantri Shahri Swasthya Yojna", he said. Under this scheme, the university will receive funds to the tune of Rs 150 crore for development, he added.
Trauma centre to come up by 2011
The work on the Trauma Centre of the university seems to be going on a slow pace. Though the work on this 200-bedded centre has already started, it is likely to be completed in the year 2011. The center, which had been visualised by the state government and the health department more than a decade back, had been hanging fire till the present state government came into power in 2005. The project was taken up by the government about a couple of years back and funds were sanctioned for the start of work in this direction, claimed sources in the university. The Trauma Centre is expected to provide the state-of-art healthcare facilities to accident victims as the number of road mishaps have gone up sharply in the region, said Dr Chand Singh Dhull, director of the PGIMS. —
Contributed by Bijendra Ahlawat
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Children have to be taught about human physiology without making them feel awkward. Parents are better educated and suffer from lesser inhibitions and may be successful in getting their message across. There are some questions which the child would rather ask someone else. This is where the school counsellor and the mentors step in. If the attitude “let them find for themselves” is to prevail, then we as parents and educators are shirking our duty.