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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UNESCO's Education Monitoring Report Points to Growing Inequality in Education in India

UNESCO's Education Monitoring Report Points to Growing Inequality in Education in India

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published Published on Oct 31, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 31, 2017
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The report points out to the growing inequality in education in India. “While the gap in access to higher education remains large, the gap in access to institutions of good quality is pronounced, and very dependent on ability to pay.”

UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report which came out this week points out to the various problems in the education system in India. The report calls high stakes tests and tuition as harmful for education in India.

"There is extensive evidence showing that high-stakes tests based on narrow performance measures can encourage efforts to 'game the system', negatively impacting on learning and disproportionately punishing the marginalised," says the report.

The report says that high-stakes tests are a great source of stress for students, taking a serious toll on their mental and physical health. According to the Indian National Crime Records Bureau statistics, 2,672 students committed suicide in 2015 because of failure in exams.

The report also says that private tuition "can increase students' academic burden and stress".

"While remedial or individualised help may benefit students, the time and money allocated to tutoring can undermine student well-being and strain household budgets," says the report.

The report also mentions that India’s Aakash tablet project was a public-private partnership that, due to inadequate government enforcement, ended up primarily benefiting the vendor. “The 2010 project aimed to provide cheap tablets to students at all levels …  While only some Indian students received subsidized tablets, DataWind ended up a big winner.”

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Newsclick.in, 28 October, 2017, https://newsclick.in/unescos-education-monitoring-report-points-growing-inequality-education-india


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