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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As a supplementary aside to this thread, I would like to narrate what happened when I was doing a stint as a member of the Academic Council of the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education approximately five years ago. The Higher Secondary Schools of many states, for instance Delhi and the northern states are not burdened by the three language formula. They (the students) only study two languages, one the medium of instruction and another second language along with three other subjects. There was a discussion on whether the same pattern of instruction in Goa. This was rejected vociferously (by what I choose to call the vernacular language lobby) on the grounds that there would be retrenchment among teachers and on the grounds that in future there would be no teachers to teach the regional languages and they would slowly die as also the culture of the place. This argument carried the day and so the academic future and convenience of the students was tossed aside. Isn't the culture (read asmitai) card also being played by the proponents of the Regional Language as the medium of instruction in Primary Schools? -- Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470 148 M: +91 9975162897 E: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------ Ubuntu for Humanity!
