Remote teaching and learning promoted by Edtech companies as an alternative to physical classrooms, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a sizeable consumer base in our country. However, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are only a few takers of online education. In reality, class and caste-divide, which is more prominent in rural areas, affects access to digital learning. The majority of the school going...
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80% of Indian Children Learnt Lesser During the Pandemic: UNICEF Report -Ditsa Bhattacharya
-Newsclick.in UNICEF urged governments to prioritise the safe reopening of all schools, while also ensuring that children are able to pursue quality learning remotely if necessary. At least 80% of children in India between the age of 14-18 years reported lower levels of learning during the Covid-19 pandemic than when physically at school, according to a recent UNICEF report. The report pointed out that despite government, private and civil society actors coming together...
More »How school closures have hurt our less fortunate students more -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com Beset by poor technology access and ineffective online classes, students from poor households have lost reading abilities significantly, suggests a new survey covering 15 states. The losses are much more stark for students from marginalized communities With most Indian schools shut for the past year and a half, children from poor households, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds, are rapidly forgetting what they had learned before the pandemic, new survey data suggests. Less...
More »Survey details ‘catastrophic’ impact of school closures across India
-The Hindu 37% of rural children have dropped out, says report of study on 15 States The prolonged closure of primary and upper primary schools during the pandemic months has led to “catastrophic consequences” for school students, particularly in rural India, says an emergency report. Based on the School Children’s Online and Offline Learning (SCHOOL) survey conducted by researchers, who worked in coordination with eminent economist Jean Dreze, the ‘Emergency Report on School...
More »Only 8% of minority students attend schools for minority communities, NCPCR report says -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in NCPCR report, which analyses data from 23,487 minority schools across the country, says a little over 37% of total students in minority schools belong to these communities. New Delhi: Only 8 per cent of a total 4,81,91,351 children from minority communities, aged between 5 and 15, attend schools for minority communities, a report by the National Council for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has found. Furthermore, just over 37 per cent (38,44,074)...
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