M. A. Baby
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M. A. Baby is an India
n politician. He is the former Education
Minister of Kerala
State. He is also a Central Committee
Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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ministry (2006-'11), be brought in drastic changes in the education sector in Kerala. His most noteworthy reforms were aimed at making the teaching-learning process more balanced. He implemented the single window admission processing for higher secondary education. Despite the opposition of private managements controlled by caste and religious factions, the implementation of single window admission brought in much needed professionalism and discipline in the admission process in higher secondary education in Kerala. Another notable change was the implementation of grading system in high schools.
This helped bringing transparency in grading the students with internal assessments and other allied evaluation methods. He was the inspiration behind implementing new Physical Education syllabus for schools in Kerala state. A sportsman and ardent sport fan, Mr. Baby also provided much needed impetus to the Kerala school sports by revising the competition manual and providing a hike in prize money to the winning athletes. He also prompted the revision of the competition manual for kearala school arts festival.
Recently he announced that marks for higher secondary examination would be taken into consideration for the admission to the professional colleges in Kerala. However there have been a lot opposition to his work which was mostly from teachers organisations and student organisations supported by opposition parties. They raised allegations against some of his reforms. The private managements also were against him. There have also been allegations raised against promotion of unqualified teachers to the post of principals in IHRDs. He was also generally criticised for allocation of private schools quoting the educational backwardness of the Malabar region of the state.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n politician. He is the former Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
Minister of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
State. He is also a Central Committee
Central Committee
Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...
Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
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Early life
Son of Shri. P.M. Alexander and Smt. Lilly Alexander, born on April 5, 1954, completed BA degree course in Political Science. Baby could not write the final year examination, and during emergency after having been arrested under DIR and jailed, he abandoned formal education. Baby entered in politics through Kerala Students Federation, the predecessor of Student Federation of India, while Studying at NSS high school Prakkulam. Held many responsible positions in Student Federation of India, Democratic Youth Federation of India, and CPI (M). Imprisoned and tortured during Emergency. Elected to Rajysabha at the age of 32 and became one of the youngest members of Rajya Sabha.Career
As Minister of Education in the V. S. AchuthanandanV. S. Achuthanandan
Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan is an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of the state of Kerala. He had been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India since 1985, and until July 2009, when he was reverted to the Central Committee of the party owing to his...
ministry (2006-'11), be brought in drastic changes in the education sector in Kerala. His most noteworthy reforms were aimed at making the teaching-learning process more balanced. He implemented the single window admission processing for higher secondary education. Despite the opposition of private managements controlled by caste and religious factions, the implementation of single window admission brought in much needed professionalism and discipline in the admission process in higher secondary education in Kerala. Another notable change was the implementation of grading system in high schools.
This helped bringing transparency in grading the students with internal assessments and other allied evaluation methods. He was the inspiration behind implementing new Physical Education syllabus for schools in Kerala state. A sportsman and ardent sport fan, Mr. Baby also provided much needed impetus to the Kerala school sports by revising the competition manual and providing a hike in prize money to the winning athletes. He also prompted the revision of the competition manual for kearala school arts festival.
Recently he announced that marks for higher secondary examination would be taken into consideration for the admission to the professional colleges in Kerala. However there have been a lot opposition to his work which was mostly from teachers organisations and student organisations supported by opposition parties. They raised allegations against some of his reforms. The private managements also were against him. There have also been allegations raised against promotion of unqualified teachers to the post of principals in IHRDs. He was also generally criticised for allocation of private schools quoting the educational backwardness of the Malabar region of the state.