-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: Six out of every 100 Class V students in Government Schools of the state cannot identify alphabets and 17 of each 100 can read only a word. The ASER report 2013 - an annual assessment of the quality of education between Classes I and VII - paints a grim picture of education in the state. The report is based on a survey done in 845 schools of 30 districts. While...
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Schools without children, children without schools -Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Funds from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are pumped into ‘schools' in Bastar that don't exist On the day the Chhattisgarh government issued a statement emphasising how the Prime Minister's adviser, T.K.A. Nair, praised the efforts to educate children, 32 students of Koynapada primary school in Darbha block in Bastar district did not attend school. In fact, they could not as the school does not exist. An official confirmed that the disappearance...
More »‘Learning levels better than thought’-Rukmini S
-The Hindu No significant difference between rural and urban outcomes The government's own assessment of how much children are learning in schools says that 86 per cent of children in class III can recognise words in their own language and 69 per cent can do simple numerical additions. Maharashtra and the four southern States, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur perform better than the national average on both tests. The findings of the third...
More »Setting up of 3500 model schools at block level through State Governments in Educationally Backward Blocks
-Press Information Bureau (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved setting up of 3500 model schools in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) in 27 States/UTs with certain modifications. This is under the scheme for setting up of 6000 model schools at block level as a benchmark of excellence. This decision will ease the extra financial burden of the State / UT Governments resulting in effective implementation...
More »Mid-day meal scheme fails to fight malnutrition -Prakash Kumar
-Deccan Herald New Delhi: The decade-old mid-day meal scheme for primary school children, rolled out with the twin aims of fighting malnutrition and improving attendance by providing cooked food, still appears too little to fight the menace of malnutrition in many states, including Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. A large number of elementary school children are suffering from "severe" malnutrition in as many as nine states, with the highest figure of...
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