Amid all the celebrations over the Right to Education (RTE) coming into effect from April 1, there is an elephant in the room that nobody is talking about. It's called dropout rate. The spotlight till now has been on expanding the infrastructure, appointing teachers, ensuring that schools are at walkable distances, and so on. All this is undoubtedly needed. But the biggest problem facing the schooling system is that over...
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The Economy of Knowledge by Sukanta Chaudhuri
In our 63rd year of Independence, the Right to Education Act comes into effect on April 1. On the eve of its launch, the Union education minister has balanced our perspective by another resolve. India’s enrolment rate for higher education is around 12 per cent. He would increase this to 30 per cent, in line with the advanced nations. There is only one snag. Unlike in advanced countries, one Indian in...
More »Teenager beats odds to run free school for poor village students by Aveek Datta
For more than seven years, Babar Ali, 17, has been teaching children from poor families for free at a school he founded in a West Bengal village, while studying at another school. Ali opened the Ananda Shiksha Niketan at Gangapur village in Murshidabad district in 2002, when he was just nine. Today, the school has more than 800 students. Another 200 have applied to join in the next session—making it larger...
More »17,340 dropouts in Dakshina Kannada, survey finds
The exercise was carried out from January 5 to 8 Report says a majority of children quit studies at high school, PU levels Norms for selection of Ashraya scheme beneficiaries relaxed As many as 17,340 children in the age group of six to 18 plus are out of school in Dakshina Kannada, according to the latest survey by the Government. (All those who are yet to complete their 19th birthday are termed...
More »Tangible targets at school by Jandhyala BG Tilak
India’s relative position with respect to the Education Development Index remains poor. There is a lot to do in terms of improving schooling facilities. According to the ‘EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010’ (UNESCO), India’s rank was 105 among 128 countries. And it continues to figure, along with a bunch of African and one or two Asian countries, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, in the group of countries with a low...
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