-The Hindu Universal access ensured, but quality remains a challenge India has made remarkable strides towards ensuring education for all, a new global monitoring report shows. While access is now close to universal, the quality of education remains a major challenge, it says. In April 2000, the governments of 164 countries adopted the Dakar Framework to deliver Education For All commitments by 2015. On Thursday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...
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Congress gets into survey mode in Rajasthan -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu Aim of the exercise is to map damage due to closure of 17,000 govt. schools. Eight months after the BJP government closed down 17,000 government schools in Rajasthan, dramatically pushing up the dropout rate largely among marginal communities, the Congress has decided to undertake a survey, starting in Jaipur's Amber block, to map the damage. Once the audit is over, a campaign to force the State government to reopen the closed...
More »Aayog follows Gujarat on child tracker -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The government's new policy think-tank is set to launch its social sector plans with a scheme for women and children, tracking an expectant mother's first visit to a doctor till the tiny form that has stirred to life inside her completes primary school. Officials said the Niti Aayog, which recently replaced the Planning Commission, had decided on the Aadhaar-based project when it met for the first time this...
More »Report Shows Low Enrolment of SC/ST Kids in Primary Level -Ram M Sundaram
-The New Indian Express COIMBATORE: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) annual report (2014) concluded that the enrolment of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in primary level (I-V) has come down in the past three years in the country. The report was prepared by the Ministry based on U-DISE report and national census survey reports. Even though the enrolment of SC and ST students has been increasing at...
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-The Hindu Considering Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's caution regarding the insecurity that people face over a lifetime due to the deprivation of basic education, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 calls for a hard look at the situation. Its findings amount to a distressing catalogue of the failures inherent in the pedagogic methods of instruction in vogue. The foremost among them is the overemphasis on a curriculum that...
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