-The Hindu A fifth of all primary schools had no drinking water facility in the period surveyed There was an increase of 26.77 per cent in the total number of schools in the country between 2002 and 2009, according to a national survey. The maximum growth rate was witnessed in upper primary schools (49.15 per cent) followed by higher secondary schools (46.80 per cent), secondary by 28.95 and primary by 16.68 per...
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Enrolment of girls at primary level goes up: NCERT
-Governance Now All India Education Survey is the most comprehensive national-level survey covering the school education system A survey conducted by the NCERT shows an impressive growth in the enrolment of girl students in schools. The eighth all India education survey (AIES) by NCERT for 2002-09 shows the enrolment at primary stage stood at 48.13 percent but came down to 42.56 percent at higher secondary stage. Similar trend is observed in...
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-The Times of India PANAJI: Over 2.50 lakh students are enrolled in Goa's schools from Class I to XII, but facilities like playgrounds and usable urinals are still lacking in the state's institutions, reveals the eighth all India school education survey of the National council of educational research and training ( NCERT), released this week. Only 460 primary schools have a playground of the 1,024 institutions in Goa and only 739 have...
More »Enrolment in schools rises 14% to 23 crore -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India In a significant leg up to the government's literacy initiative, a national survey has revealed that almost 23 crore children are studying in 13 lakh schools across the country. There were 228,994,454 students enrolled in different recognized schools of the country with a 13.67% growth in student's enrolment from Class I to XII. This is an increase from 20.30 crore students enrolled in 2002. Encouragingly, there is a...
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-The Hindustan Times Bhopal: Year 2012 was designated as the year of mathematics in India. However, children in Madhya Pradesh have turned poor in basic arithmetic last year. In 2011, 44.7% children enrolled in Class 5 were able to solve simple two-digit subtraction problems. This proportion declined to one-third (34.1%) in 2012. These, and other similar findings, are the conclusion of Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2012), facilitated by NGO...
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