-The Hindu The Annual Status of Education Report findings make a clear case for strengthening early childhood education centres One of the big debates in early childhood education is on children’s “School readiness” and whether early childhood education provides them with the requisite skills to cope with the School curriculum. A vast literature exists on the importance of certain cognitive abilities that are supposed to be developed during the years children spend...
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Abhijit Banerjee lauds Delhi govt Schools for outperforming private peers
-PTI * There is a need for greater flexibility in the Indian education sector across all aspects, he said, calling the system 'very rigid' * He said private Schools are 'terrible' from an outcome perspective Mumbai: Education outcomes in state-run Schools can be better than the private ones, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee said on Saturday as he lauded Delhi government Schools for "outperforming" their private peers. He said state agencies have been "generous" with...
More »Daughter of a lorry driver, mom to toddler: This first gen graduate has left TN in awe -Priyanka Thirumurthy
-TheNewsMinute.com 25-year-old G Anandhi has received praise from the Governor for her journey to academic excellence. On Tuesday, as 25-year-old G Anandhi stood on a dias beside Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, with 18 medals for academic excellence and a degree from the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Science University, she became an inspiration for many. The daughter of a lorry driver from the foothills of Kollimalai in Namakkal district, the young...
More »Modi govt likely to slash School education budget by Rs 3,000 crore citing funds crunch -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in A sum of Rs 56,536 crore was sanctioned to the School education department in 2019-20, from which the finance ministry is likely to cut Rs 3,000 crore. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is likely to cut the School education budget for 2019-20 by Rs 3,000 crore on account of a “funds crunch”, ThePrint has learnt. Highly-placed sources in the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry — which oversees education — said...
More »India ranks 129 out of 189 countries & territories in terms of human development index for 2018
-United Nations Development Programme, released on 9 December, 2019 According to the Human Development Report 2019: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century, India’s HDI value for 2018 is 0.647— which put the country in the medium human development category—positioning it at 129 out of 189 countries and territories. Between 1990 and 2018, India’s HDI value increased from 0.431 to 0.647, an increase of 50.0 percent. Between 1990 and 2018, India’s...
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