Jaganmohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh is set to make all government elementary schools ‘English-medium’ from the next academic year. It is to try and reverse this trend (which also poses a threat to government teaching jobs) that many State governments have made at least some of their schools English-medium or started English-medium sections. Even researchers who advocate privatisation of schools as a quality improvement measure accept that English-medium schools are not the solution. This is what the government English-medium schools will offer, with the only difference that they will be free. This sort of ‘English-medium education’, far from making education more equitable and closing the social gap, will accentuate inequity.

Source: The Hindu November 17, 2019 18:33 UTC