-TheWire.in Reports on education ignore the fact that students in public and private schools are vastly different. Reform is necessary, but there are no silver bullets. The ASER report paints a grim picture of what is (not) happening in Bihar’s schools. Only around 24% percent of children in Class III can read a Class II text. A little more than half the enrolled children are present on any given day. More than...
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Forward caste quota is an act of appeasement, desperation and failure -TK Arun
-The Economic Times The government’s decision to add one more layer of reservations to the existing 50 per cent in government jobs and seats in institutions of higher Learning represents political opportunism and amounts to admitting failure to create economic dynamism that would generate quality jobs and meet the aspirations of young India. To create an additional quota of 10 per cent for those with an annual income less than Rs 8...
More »For almost 15 million migrant children, education remains a luxury -Navya PK
-CitizenMatters.in Sushil was attending 10th standard at the school in his village, when his parents decided to move to a city. They had found seasonal work in a brick kiln there. Sushil’s only option was to move to the kiln site and work alongside his parents. He had given up hopes of completing high school education, when he realised that other child labourers at the kiln were going to a ‘classroom’...
More »Learning to compete: on Skill India -Santosh Mehrotra & Ashutosh Pratap
-The Hindu Skill India needs a sharp realignment if it is to meaningfully transform people’s life chances In 2013, India’s skill agenda got a push when the government introduced the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF). This organises all qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude, just like classes in general academic education. For instance, level 1 corresponds to Class 9 (because vocational education is only supposed to...
More »ASER 2018: In Math, education survey finds a growing gender divide -Sukrita Baruah
-The Indian Express Wilima Wadhwa, director, ASER Centre, said it is possible that the gender gap in Mathematics is reinforced by existing perceptions on mathematical ability of girls. While the Annual Status of Education Report (Rural), 2018 – or ASER – shows that the percentage of girls out of school is shrinking, it reports a gender divide in basic Math Learning levels across age categories, which steadily increases as the children...
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