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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | School closures are hurting less privileged students disproportionately -Pramit Bhattacharya

School closures are hurting less privileged students disproportionately -Pramit Bhattacharya

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published Published on Jul 6, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 6, 2021

-Livemint.com

India has had the seventh-longest school closure in the world, affecting over 300 million school-children. Underprivileged students without access to smartphones and computers have been hit hardest

For most people across the world, how much they earn is determined by how wealthy and well-educated their parents were. But the degree of ‘persistence’ in incomes across generations is much higher in India than in other developing countries, a team of World Bank researchers found in a 2018 study. In other words, children of under-educated parents in India find it much more difficult to rise up the educational and income ladder than in other large developing countries (China, Brazil, Indonesia, Egypt, and Nigeria) the researchers studied.

The pandemic-induced school lockdown threatens to widen these fault lines even further, with children in poorer and under-educated families falling far behind peers. Already, the length of school closures in the country are among the highest in the world. While this has affected over 300 million children across India, those without access to smartphones or a family member to help them with their lessons have been hit the hardest. The temptation to drop out of school to boost sagging family incomes is also the highest among this group. And yet, these children are least likely to receive attention from teachers and schools, survey data from the non-profit Pratham shows.

The impact of such learning losses could last a lifetime. Those who drop out may find it difficult to get back to school. But some of those who stay back may find peers far ahead. This could discourage first generation learners from pursuing higher education, and impact lifetime earnings in an unequal labour market where the education premium has only grown over time.

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Livemint.com, 6 July, 2021, https://www.livemint.com/news/india/by-widening-educational-gaps-pandemic-threatens-income-mobility-11625461585063.html


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