Literacy rate at 71% in rural India, 86 % in urban: Survey

[saurav]

Miles to go.. Many more miles to go.. 10% improvement in urban and 25% in Rural areas ..

BTW with migration from rural to urban areas getting faster, we may witness illiteracy going down faster.

 

[danish_vij]

Yeah right...an education system which produces only doctors and engineers.

Our education system should encourage creativity and discourage rote learning, but unfortunately this is not going to happen anytime soon.

it is happening already its not only about doctors and engineers now.......i have many friends choosing different llines...but the problem is they dont get much opportunities here and they end up abroad mostly UK Canada US

 

[Hindustani78]

Yeah right...an education system which produces only doctors and engineers.

Our education system should encourage creativity and discourage rote learning, but unfortunately this is not going to happen anytime soon.

in 2014, school infrastructure has climbed up to 1.4 million schools with 7.72 million teachers so that 98% habitations have a primary school (class I-V) within one kilometer and 92% have an upper primary school (class VI-VIII) within three kilometer walking distance.

1.5 million engineering graduates passing out every year

Ministry of Human Resource Development
03-July, 2015 16:12 IST
Know Your College (KYC)
With the time for admission to colleges having arrived, there is often confusion in the minds of students regarding which colleges to join and the courses to be taken up. To help the students make an informed decision on the choice of college and the courses, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has developed a “Know Your College” portal.

The portal was launched by the President of India on 11th November, 2014 to help prospective students make informed selection of a college. This portal covers almost 10,500 colleges which conduct about 14,000 programs in Technical Education and 35000 colleges conducting at least 20,000 programs in Non-Technical education. It is a repository of information pertaining to colleges and information related to its faculty, labs, library, infrastructure, and availability of hostel facilities etc. Students are encouraged to send their complaints on discrepancies of information provided by colleges through this portal.

This portal is being maintained by AICTE and is available to the public at www.knowyourcollege-gov.in. It is a single stop destination for students for making an informed choice.

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[Hindustani78]

Plan afoot to reach out to 2 lakh schools - The Hindu
Updated: July 3, 2015 05:51 IST
To take the Nano Science Lab to two lakh schools pan India by 2016, Genius Edu Labs (GEL) has three vertical marketing strategies.

“Wherever schools have no labs in villages, we would like to reach them through CSR under which companies like HPCL support the schools,” says GEL Executive Director Sucharita T. The second means of business is through franchisees.

“But when it comes to government schools neglected in many ways, we will go the extra mile to address it as we want to serve the nation. We will directly handle them,” she asserts. GEL wants to tap the NRI network. There are a lot of NRIs who want to contribute to the school they have studied in and the intent can be used to benefit the schools, Ms. Sucharita says. The cost of one lab is Rs.85,000 plus taxes. The cost includes training to two teachers in attributive teaching technique and guiding manual.

 

[Levina]

in 2014, school infrastructure has climbed up to 1.4 million schools with 7.72 million teachers so that 98% habitations have a primary school (class I-V) within one kilometer and 92% have an upper primary school (class VI-VIII) within three kilometer walking distance.

1.5 million engineering graduates passing out every year

Ministry of Human Resource Development
03-July, 2015 16:12 IST
Know Your College (KYC)
With the time for admission to colleges having arrived, there is often confusion in the minds of students regarding which colleges to join and the courses to be taken up. To help the students make an informed decision on the choice of college and the courses, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has developed a “Know Your College” portal.

The portal was launched by the President of India on 11th November, 2014 to help prospective students make informed selection of a college. This portal covers almost 10,500 colleges which conduct about 14,000 programs in Technical Education and 35000 colleges conducting at least 20,000 programs in Non-Technical education. It is a repository of information pertaining to colleges and information related to its faculty, labs, library, infrastructure, and availability of hostel facilities etc. Students are encouraged to send their complaints on discrepancies of information provided by colleges through this portal.

This portal is being maintained by AICTE and is available to the public at www.knowyourcollege-gov.in. It is a single stop destination for students for making an informed choice.

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That's fine.
I was talking about the "quality" of education.

 

[Hindustani78]

That's fine.
I was talking about the "quality" of education.

Indian Children since childhood carries heavy school bags and learn since childhood.

"So much homework is given that students need the books at home also. If students start keeping their books in schools, then parents will have to buy two sets - one for home and one for school,"

Now things are changing and e-classroom, audio- visual technology and other technological means for teaching are being introduced.

 

[Hindustani78]

India made impressive progress in providing primary education: Report | Zee News
India has made "impressive" progress in providing primary education to its children but it is still struggling to achieve similar results in lower secondary education and has the largest number of out-of- school adolescents, a UN study said today.


Last Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 10:04

United Nations: India has made "impressive" progress in providing primary education to its children but it is still struggling to achieve similar results in lower secondary education and has the largest number of out-of- school adolescents, a UN study said today.

According to the study by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFR GMR), 124 million children and adolescents are now out of school while international aid to education continues to remain below 2010 levels.

"India has made impressive progress in the provision of primary education but is struggling to do the same for lower secondary education," the report said.

In 2011, the latest year with data, more than 16 million young adolescents of lower secondary school age were not enrolled in school in India. In addition, Bangladesh, Mexico, Indonesia, Niger, Pakistan and the Syrian Arab Republic each had more than 1 million out-of-school adolescents.

The report noted that India is providing financial resources to help children with disabilities attend mainstream schools and adapt school infrastructure. In addition, teachers are being trained on inclusive education, with resource centres established to support clusters of schools.

India, which has the largest number of out-of-school adolescents, has seen a reorientation of external support from basic to secondary education between 2012 and 2013: aid to basic education in India fell from USD 100 million to USD 27 million and aid to secondary education rose from USD 21 million to USD 232 million between 2012 and 2013.

According to the latest UNESCO Institute for Statistics data, there were more than 0.5 million out-of-school children of primary school age in at least 19 countries.

At least one million children were denied the right to education in India, Indonesia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan and Tanzania.

India had 1.7 million out of school children of primary school age in 2012.

The latest numbers show that some 24 million children will never enter a classroom with girls remaining the most disadvantaged cohort figuring in the study.

In South and West Asia alone, 80 per cent of out-of-school girls are unlikely to start school compared to just 16 per cent for their male counterparts.

UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova pointed to warnings that unless countries "make serious commitments" towards increasing education aid, the ambitious targets made by the international community promising 12 years of free and equitable access to quality education "could remain elusive for millions of children and youth."

Despite a six per cent increase in aid to education, investment levels are four per cent lower today than in 2010 and risk stagnating for the next few years.

"Aid needs to be shooting upwards, not creeping up by a few percentage points," declared Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA GMR.

Estimates suggest that it will cost an extra USD 39 billion to provide the 12 years of education to everyone in low and lower-middle income countries.

PTI

 

[Hindustani78]

Court allots one week to set up the panel to look into complaints.
Wven as over 51,000 seats under Right to Education (RTE) Act are lying vacant in various schools across the State, the Madras High Court on Monday directed the School Education Department to set up a Monitoring Committee to look into complaints on non-compliant schools.

When a PIL plea filed by activist A. Narayanan of CHANGE India came up for hearing before the First Bench comprising Chief Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, the School Education Department filed a counter affidavit, which stated that 51,394 seats of the available 1,17,232 seats under RTE Act, were lying vacant, as on June 19 this year.

“These seats would be kept vacant till the end of November 2015 so as to benefit the children belonging to the weaker section and disadvantaged group,” it stated and further listed out efforts to ensure that all seats were filled up by deserving students. While a weekly report has been sought by the Directorate of Matriculation Schools and Directorate of Elementary Schools on the progress in the admission of children under the 25 per cent reservation category, a show cause notice has been issued to schools which have not admitted students under the Act, it stated.

“We are satisfied that all necessary steps are being taken. However, in case, non-compliant schools or refusal of admissions or schools demanding monies against this quota come to light, they can be brought to the notice of the respondent authorities,” the Bench said.

“In order to facilitate this process, the respondent authorities will set up a Monitoring Committee and duly publicise their names on the website so that aggrieved persons can approach that Committee for redressal of their grievances. Such a committee will be set up within a week from today,” it added.

The matter was further posted for October 9 for filing compliance.

 

[graphican]

I seriously doubt this to be true.

 

[Skull and Bones]

@jamahir Since more than 90% of Indians drop out of college or don't attend one, why don't we have Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates in India, going by your logic of dropping out of college.

 

[jamahir]

@jamahir Since more than 90% of Indians drop out of college or don't attend one, why don't we have Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates in India, going by your logic of dropping out of college.

because even if they have progressive ideas, their families and the general society will taunt them with "kuch kam-dham kyun nahi karte" and force them into jobs.

you should also ask, from the three million "computer science" graduates that have flooded out of indian colleges in the last 13/14 years, has any one of them designed a operating system or microprocessor?? what seems to be the problem of these students and more so, of the teachers??

look at what 99 percent of indian start-up companies are about... shopping websites, cell phone apps and online exam preparations.

one company in tumkur town in karnataka state gets its income from breeding virtual foxes in order to sell them to the internet virtual world, "second life".

completely useless and frivolous and harming local society and non-contributing to the world.

only one girl is wearing slippers... the others are bare foot... in 2015 !!

 

[saurav]

only one girl is wearing slippers... the others are bare foot... in 2015 !!

60+ years of socialist economy..

 

[jamahir]

60+ years of socialist economy..

68 years of extreme capitalist economy and a reactionary culture... i am sure the parents of those three girls are saving money for their marriage.

yeah, farmers killing themselves because of money problems is so very socialist.

I seriously doubt this to be true.

literacy has not much to do with being actually educated, emancipated and enlightened... these three come from having a scientific political system which india does not have... check my previous post.

 

[saurav]

yeah, farmers killing themselves because of money problems is so very socialist.
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That we both can agree on. Not enough money for produce because they have been forced to remain farmers is socialist indeed.

 

[jamahir]

That we both can agree on. Not enough money for produce because they have been forced to remain farmers is socialist indeed.

yes, the populations in ussr and libyan jamahiriya was lot lot less than india's because the farmers in those socialist lands suicided on daily basis.