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Revamping Indian Education

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November 29, 2017

What is the issue?

  • There is growing trend towards reliance on private schools.
  • But the government schools ought to be the drivers of change to create real impact.

What are the challenges for India in providing education?

  • Majority of children in each class in India have educational attainments much lower than the one they are in.
  • Only half of all students who enter primary school make it to the upper primary level.
  • Less than half that around 25 million get into the 9-12 class cycle.
  • The number of secondary schools is less than 150,000 for a country of 1.3 billion, and even this comes down to just 100,000 at the higher secondary level.
  • While there are around five million primary school teachers, at the secondary level the number is just 1.5 million.
  • The inexorable shift to private school education along with the Right to Education Act represents a failure of the public-school system.

What needs to be done?

  • India needs to view school education as a critical strategic investment and give it the status of a vital infrastructure project.
  • This should be carried out with the help of countries that have an amazing record in providing quality school education.
  • Indian public-school system must be swiftly and radically revamped.
  • Government must invest more on Teacher training institutions as they constitute an important part, to turn out world-class teachers.
  • To create the world’s largest pool of well-educated and highly trained workers India needs to introduce new policies at high economic backdrop.

 

Source: The Hindu

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