Despite significant gains during Eleventh plan,
education in India faces several challenges. The country's mean years of
schooling at 5.12 years is significantly lower than the other emerging market
economies such as China (8.17 years) and Brazil (7.54 years) and well below the
average for all developing countries (7.09 years). School-wise analysis based
on District Information System for Education (DISE) 2009-10 indicates that 46 %
of primary and 34 % of upper primary schools have poor pupil-teacher ratio. The
biggest concern in elementary education is the poor level of student learning.
Evidence suggests that learning outcomes for children in Indian schools are far
below corresponding class levels in other countries. Annual Status of Education
Report (2011) illustrate that over half the children in class V are unable to
read even at class II level. The Twelfth plan needs to address these challenges
in an integrated and holistic manner.
An overhaul
of the system and reforms in education need to be brought in so as to address
the problems mentioned above.
Certain areas
of intervention focus at the moment in
the education sector:
·
Effective linkages
between adult education programmes
and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
·
Improving educational
indicators like enrolment ratio, teacher pupil ratio, dropout rate, teacher's
appointment and ensuring quality training.
·
Vocational education,
improving generic courses for pre-vocational education workable through
out the country, but different as per the area requirements.
·
Empowering and
developing the disadvantaged groups / sections of society through specific
programmes for backward States/regions/areas, special education for differently
abled groups/Communities.
·
System-wide focus on
holistic development of children by improving
learning outcomes and other non-scholastic areas.
·
Redefining literacy and
a paradigm shift from basic literacy to lifelong learning, with a focus on both
non-formal education and establishing strong linkages with the formal system
with mechanism for recognizing prior learning and accreditation.
·
Combining access with
affordability and ensuring high-quality undergraduate and post graduate
education.
No comments:
Post a Comment