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‘Age is not a barrier to education. I studied well, and am going to do well in the examination too,’ said a confident Sumathi Ammal, an 85-year-old woman who was at the BNV Boys Higher Secondary School, Thiruvallam, on Sunday to appear for ‘Mikavutsavam,’ conducted as part of the Aksharasree literacy programme of the Kerala

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a unique attempt, the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority has decided to enroll nearly a lakh members of women empowerment project ‘Kudumbashree’, who had discontinued school education, to take the 10th and Plus Two equivalency exams from next year onwards. To enhance the scheme, a project called ‘Sama’ was launched with the collaboration

An 85-year old tribal woman, kembi, from Mananthavady is among the 2,993 candidates who cleared a literacy examination conducted by the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority in the second phase of its tribal literacy project in Wayanad district. Kembi, of Padachikunnu colony in Mananthawady Muncipality, was also the oldest among the candidates. Santha, 18,of vellari

Attappady, one of the most backward tribal hamlets in Kerala, which was in the limelight for long for the wrong reasons– infant mortality, malnutrition, poverty and under development, is now slowly turning a new leaf. The settlement, located on the foothills of Nilgiri hills of Western Ghats in Palakkad district, is now on its path

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala model of literacy is likely to be spread across the country with the National Literacy Mission evincing interest in it and inviting the state authority to share its experiences in Adult education during the Literacy day celebrations in New Delhi. The National Literacy Mission has expressed interest in the educational model of

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Over 3,000 people from various tribal communities have enrolled themselves for the second phase of the Literacy Mission’s ‘Samagra’ project which aims to wipe off illiteracy from the 100 most backward tribal colonies in the state. In the first phase of the project, more than 2,000 people from the Scheduled Tribes category were enrolled.

Changathi, the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority’s Malayalam literacy programme for migrant workers, has some impressive numbers to show for its second phase registration. If the first phase saw good response from natives of West Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha, the second phase saw migrant workers from 17 Indian States and the neighbouring country of Nepal

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Antique coins dating back to over 5,000 years, palm-leaf manuscripts which are over 500 years old and century-old wooden footwear called ‘methiyadi’ are some of the rare items that came to the fore during a survey of archives carried out by the state literacy mission in association with the Archives department. A total of

After making two successful forays into the tribal hamlets of Wayanad, Kerala’s State Literacy Mission Authority (KSLMA) is all set to earn the ‘100% literate’ badge for the outlier region, which has the highest tribal population among all districts. Tribal pockets are among a handful of areas where full literacy remains elusive in the State.

In the past two years, nearly 10,000 tribals have benefited from literacy programmes in Kerala; thanks to an epoch-making drive by Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority. Statistics show that a total of 9,975 tribal people have benefited from three such programmes implemented by the Kerala State Literacy Mission (KSLM) in villages across the southern State