Chennai:
Madras High Court has ordered Tamil Nadu school education secretary
and state director of teacher education research and training to
consider whether the certificates of the D.Ed. course obtained from
Karnataka is equivalent or not within a period of two months.
The order was passed by Justice T Raja after hearing a batch of
petitions which sought direction from the court to consider D.Ed.
course obtained by the 10 petitioners from three institutes in
Karnataka for evaluation and treat it as equivalent to the diploma
acquired in Tamil Nadu besides quashing the Government Order issued on
December 3, 2009 which refuses to evaluate diploma certificates
obtained from Karnataka board.
Interestingly, the judge refused to quash the Government Order
stating that the purpose of the GO cannot be questioned and the court
is in full agreement with the GO. However, he said that the refusal of
the evaluation certificate to candidates cannot be accepted as the
petitioners completed their first degree D.Ed. course and have joined
the second year and have also completed the same within eight months
from the issuance of GO on December 2009.
The judge stated that the GO has been issued with retrospective effect
as such it has prejudiced the accrued rights of the petitioners who
already completed first year diploma course and hence they are
entitled to succeed on the principles of promissory estoppels,
acquiescence, legitimate expectation and equity.
Interestingly, the GO was passed as the students who obtain diploma in
teacher education course in other states cannot be considered equal to
the education standard offered in Tamil Nadu.
In Tamil Nadu, teaching of first language, teaching of second language
(English), Mathematics, science and social science is made compulsory
for diploma in teacher education course besides in Karnataka there is
a provision to choose two subjects among English, Mathematics, Science
and social science in the syllabus in the second year. And students
always prefer to select social science and amths or science and maths
and majority of students avoid taking up English language as teaching,
the additional advocate general submitted.
Madras High Court has ordered Tamil Nadu school education secretary
and state director of teacher education research and training to
consider whether the certificates of the D.Ed. course obtained from
Karnataka is equivalent or not within a period of two months.
The order was passed by Justice T Raja after hearing a batch of
petitions which sought direction from the court to consider D.Ed.
course obtained by the 10 petitioners from three institutes in
Karnataka for evaluation and treat it as equivalent to the diploma
acquired in Tamil Nadu besides quashing the Government Order issued on
December 3, 2009 which refuses to evaluate diploma certificates
obtained from Karnataka board.
Interestingly, the judge refused to quash the Government Order
stating that the purpose of the GO cannot be questioned and the court
is in full agreement with the GO. However, he said that the refusal of
the evaluation certificate to candidates cannot be accepted as the
petitioners completed their first degree D.Ed. course and have joined
the second year and have also completed the same within eight months
from the issuance of GO on December 2009.
The judge stated that the GO has been issued with retrospective effect
as such it has prejudiced the accrued rights of the petitioners who
already completed first year diploma course and hence they are
entitled to succeed on the principles of promissory estoppels,
acquiescence, legitimate expectation and equity.
Interestingly, the GO was passed as the students who obtain diploma in
teacher education course in other states cannot be considered equal to
the education standard offered in Tamil Nadu.
In Tamil Nadu, teaching of first language, teaching of second language
(English), Mathematics, science and social science is made compulsory
for diploma in teacher education course besides in Karnataka there is
a provision to choose two subjects among English, Mathematics, Science
and social science in the syllabus in the second year. And students
always prefer to select social science and amths or science and maths
and majority of students avoid taking up English language as teaching,
the additional advocate general submitted.
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