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| Tuesday, 28 October 2003 |
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Education should be oriented to high-level - Jaffna College principal Jaffna special correspondent "We have to orient our present system of education towards a very high and general level of education. Firstly academic qualifications are essential to learn the skills to be a good citizen, but you need job oriented training as well to get yourself prepared to complete the work created by the present challenges. At present, widely talked about challenges are globalisation, transformation of industrial economics and transformation of the enterprise. Globalisation involves management and control in global market places, competition in world markets, global work group and global delivery systems. We should provide opportunities to our students to get this standard by exposing them more and more into the field of Information Technology," said Noel A. Vimalendran, Principal, Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai while presenting his maiden prize day report at the college prize-giving. Prof. B. R. R. N. Mendis, Chairman, University Grants Commission was the chief guest. Vimalendran in his report further said that transformation of Industrial Economics demands knowledge of information based economics, productivity of new products and services leadership and time based competitions. Universities should to a certain extent change its curriculum in such a way to suit the demands spelled out and produce more productive graduates. To do this, he proposed to reintroduce viva method, select the best suited student without getting students who are spoon-fed by the tutories which make education an excellent avenue for living. He would also include here English education as one of the avenues in which we could achieve this target. He said that he would not tell that Swabasha / mother tongue learning was not good. In his opinion, mother tongue education is the best for any student, but to meet the challenges of information or knowledge-based economy, we need to have English medium education to widen our scope. Therefore, English medium classes should be the main emphasis at schools today. It is our duty to see that we foster a desirable attitude towards English and this coupled with insightful and improved methods of teaching will result in a great improvement in the standard of English among our children. Transformation of the enterprise, he said, gears to decentralisation, flexibility, location, independence empowerment and collaborative work and team work. Here the importance of sports plays a major role to develop these skills and also our commitment to God and loyalty to our college. We should achieve these qualities through the field of sports. Sports and games are important also to develop body and mind. He said that more activities through literary associations and clubs would enable the children to have excellent opportunities to practise all the above skills. He hoped and stressed that a student of Jaffna College should be mighty in power, possess an outstanding character, should be a lover of learning and be dynamic in sports. He pledged that to achieve these goals, they at Jaffna College would invest all their energy to educate as many as they can, as well as they, as broadly as they can and as high as they can. |
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