On Sep 4, 2012 3:21 PM, "V. Sasi Kumar" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shall we do something about this? It is tragic to see this happening in > Kerala, which pioneered Free Software in education in India. Any ideas > about what we can do? > From: Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil <[email protected]> > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software. > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:41:36 +0530 > > Hi all, > See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. > These guys are still prescribing Microsoft stuff. > > http://soe.cusat.ac.in/files/btech_s1s2_syllabus_2012.pdf > > 11 L2 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LABORATORY > Application packages > Word > 1. to create an advertisement in word. > 2. to illustrate the concept of mail merging in word. ... > > It seems they have never heard of things like Open/Libre office , > latex etc >
Apparently, they never heard of computer programming either. Anyway, as a suggestion, perhaps an rti questioning when (and specifically what, if any) changes were made to declared policy that allows the continued teaching of proprietary applications as an alternative to computer programming.
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