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School closure: One in three countries not implementing programmes to mitigate learning loss, says report

-PTI/ The New Indian Express At the same time, only one-third of countries are taking steps to measure learning losses in primary and lower second levels, mostly among high-income countries, the survey report stated. NEW DELHI: One in three countries where schools were or are still closed due to the Covid pandemic have not yet implemented remedial programmes to mitigate learning loss, according to a survey. The "Survey on National Education Responses to...

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School Education Not Equally Accessible For All, Shows UDISE+ Data -Ditsa Bhattacharya

-Newsclick.in While private unaided schools comprise 22.38% of the total number of schools in India, they saw a whopping 37.13% of total enrolments during 2019-2020. New Delhi: Over 26 crore children were enrolled in schools during the academic year 2019-2020, according to the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) Report for the year 2019-20. Government schools saw the highest number of enrolments, followed by private unaided schools. According to the UDISE+...

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School closures are hurting less privileged students disproportionately -Pramit Bhattacharya

-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...

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NAPM welcomes the SC judgment on rations for all migrants & time-bound registration of unorganized sector workers

-Press release by National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) dated 2nd July, 2021  The sudden and unplanned lockdown imposed by the union government in March 2020 in the wake of pandemic had caused immense hardship to the informal sector workers. After much criticism and concern on its inaction, Supreme Court on 26.05.2020 took suo moto cognizance of “problems and miseries of the migrant labourers”. Later, several persons associated with people’s organisations...

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In academic year 2019-20, only 22% Indian schools had Internet

-The Hindu Less than 30% government schools had computers: Education Ministry data. In the academic year that ended with school closures due to COVID-19, only 22% of schools in India had Internet facilities, according to Education Ministry data released on Thursday. Among government schools, less than 12% had Internet in 2019-20, while less than 30% had functional computer facilities. This affected the kind of digital education options available to schools during the...

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