[Commons-Law] Regarding CBSE syllabus for class XI & XII - commercializing of education in India

[Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir]

 Hello,
 I managed to get a PDF version of the CBSE XI & XII syllabus and I see that 
MS and Oracle are extensively taught. I was quite surprised to see that 
propreitary software is part of official syllabus for schools. I would not 
mind the labs being focussed on the software that has been "donated" by the 
multi-nationals. However, I would say that school education is about basics 
and fundamentals and not about propreitary material. For example, I would 
not mind Databases from an entity-relation point of view and SQL based 
standard. But PL/SQL that is extremely specific to Oracle is a definite 
no-no from my perspective. (It is the same as teaching 3M or DuPont 
materials as part of material science or similar such)
 My belief is that this is where our central educational system has been 
bought over by the MNCs and I strongly oppose this approach.
 Comments? 
 Regards,
Yuva
 From : 
http://www.education.nic.in/htmlweb/cbse_curri_05/cbsecurri_xii_05.htm(navigated
on 08 June 2005)
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