This morning I was reading June edition of ‘Business world’ and found an interesting article titled ‘Bilingual Way’.
The article talks about a survey conducted by National University of Education Planning and Administration. The survey shows that 74% increase in the number of enrollments from 5.47 million students in 2003-2004 to 9.51 million in 2005-2006 — in upper-primary sections of English medium schools across India.
The article goes on saying that the results has come at the cost of regional languages like Marathi, Telugu and Kannada and suggests that its time we moved away from the ‘either or’ debate and lookat bilingualism as a real alternative for education.
The BW article has given statistical evidence, which is in sync my previous blog post.
