Next milestone in language politics mandating local language learning in degree courses
Karnataka’s move to mandate Kannada for four semesters in three-year undergraduate degree programmes would have come as a bolt out of the blue for colleges and students. A large number of students who are not domiciled in Karnataka or are not native Kannada speakers enroll in the state’s educational institutions for higher education programmes.The goal of higher education is to prepare students for professional, academic and other lofty pursuits in adult life. Being “forced” to learn a new language is quite a distraction from their goals and frittering away of energies. For a student of mathematics or physics or economics, such impositions are bewildering. Given that an entire economy has been built around private higher education institutions in the state, Karnataka must review the decision.
So far, language politics in education has been restricted to schools with many states mandating the learning of their primary spoken language. But to adopt the same principle for higher education is ill-conceived. Rather, Karnataka is well placed to attempt to take its higher education ecosystem to the next level in terms of quality and quantity. If students shy away fearing restrictive language courses, it would be the state’s loss.
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