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Kerala teachers to get opportunity to teach in Brazil
Saturday March 24, 2012 06:41:33 PM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: Around 500 teachers from Kerala might get an opportunity to teach in Brazilian schools in
the near future, say officials.
The teachers, who need not necessarily know the Portuguese
language, would teach Maths and English from Class 1 to 6 using
the education inventory tools developed by state owned IT@School -
that is taught here in all state run education institutions.
M. Sivasankar, secretary, General Education Department of the
state and K. Anvar Sadath, executive director, IT@School Project
told IANS from Brazil that their visit there has been a success in
exploring the possibilities of instituting a programme of academic
collaboration between Brazil and Kerala.
According to Sivasankar, officials from the Pernambuco state in
Brazil said attempts would be made to sign a bilateral agreement
on academic collaboration between Brazil and India, during the
visit of President Dilma Rousseff March 29 at the 4th BRICS summit
in New Delhi.
BRICS is the international political platform of leading emerging
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"There are around 40 schools with roughly 4,000 children in total
for standards 1 to 6. They wanted one Indian teacher for every 40
children to be deployed in these schools for a period of three
years. UNESCO will be the nodal agency to coordinate the project
in association with Federal University and Ministry of Education,"
said Sadath.
"We suggested that they look at Kerala exclusively as we have
surplus teachers and managing 100 diverse teachers from different
states of India will be difficult. This suggestion has been
accepted and mayor of Timbauba has identified a building for the
centre. The teachers will be provided accommodation and food by
the local government," added Sadath.
Through this largest ever academic collaboration between Brazil
and India, selected teachers from Kerala would teach Mathematics
and English through Information Technology at 40 schools in the
Pernambuco state.
Mauricio Rands, secretary of Pernambuco state and a member of
Brazil's parliament informed the Kerala team that efforts would be
made to sign the bilateral agreement on March 30 during the
meeting between Brazil Minister for Education Prof. Aloizio
Mercadante and Kapil Sibal, Indian minister of human resource
development.
"Steps have been initiated at the diplomatic level to obtain
sanction from the Government of Kerala as well with respect to the
draft agreement. It is also proposed to ensure the presence of
Kerala chief minister and minister for education during the
event," said Sadath.
During the four-day visit to Brazil, the officials held meetings
with Brazilian Education Minister Aloizio Mercadante, UNESCO
Director in Brazil Lucian Moonos, and Indian Ambassador in Bazil
B.S. Prakash.
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