Govt school teachers get a taste of chartered accountancy course

TNN | TNN | Updated: Jul 5, 2019, 4:49 IST

Coimbatore: The school education department conducted a four-day programme for government school commerce and accountancy teachers to provide them exposure to the chartered accountancy (CA) course and make them pursue the same.
The programme was part of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) that the Southern India Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the school education department signed in 2018 to create awareness about the CA course to the government school students, said K Jalapathi, secretary of the southern regional council of ICAI.
“The objective of the MoU is to take the CA course to government school students, many of who come from underprivileged backgrounds. Last year, we trained a total of 352 government school accountancy and commerce teachers in the subjects pertaining to CA so that they could train their students,” he said. According to him, they had also taken the awareness programme to around 15,000 students last year.
This year, the awareness programme was conducted for around 2,500 government school teachers across the state from July 1 to July 4. “We appointed two chartered accountants as coordinators for every district and informed teachers about the course structure, papers in it, pass percentage, fee etc.,” Jalapathi said.
In Coimbatore, the programme was conducted at the corporation school in Ramanathapuram and it saw a participation of around 170 teachers.

Teachers, who attended the programme, said the programme helped them learn several aspects of the CA course and clear some misconceptions regarding the same. “We were thinking that if a student fails in one paper, he would fail the whole course. But experts at the programme informed us that was not the case,” said Maragathamani, a teacher.
Teachers said the entry fee of Rs 9,800 for the CA course was discouraging many government school students from taking it up and sought to offer some scheme or subsidy to support the underprivileged students.