India: Schools still await French textbooks

[Francis Hult]

The Times of India

 

Schools still await French textbooks

 

Even as schools are only days away from the first term examinations, the class eight students that have opted for French as their second language are yet to receive textbooks for the subject. 

There are around 40 schools in the state that offer French as a second language in standards eight, ninth and tenth with nearly 4,000 students opting for the language, informed sources in the directorate of education (DoE). 

And even as officials in the DoE claim that textbooks for the subject for the academic year have been supplied, the standard eight students with French as their second language are struggling to cope in the absence of textbooks.

 

Full story:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Schools_still_await_French_textbooks/articleshow/3277118.cms

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