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Learning Poverty World bank report “Ending Learning Poverty”. Learning Poverty defined as the percentage of 10-year-olds who cannot read and understand a simple story. World Bank estimates that 53 percent of children in low- and middle-income countries cannot read and understand a simple story by the end of primary school.   Recommendations for Ending learning poverty Targeted approach : to reduce by at least half the share of 10-year old who cannot read by 2030. Ensuring political and technical commitment to clear goals, means, and measures for literacy is required to achieve the target. Assessing performance: well-defined ways to inform future instruction based on assessment results.   proper design, implementation, documentation, and dissemination of results.   Attention to ensuring that the assessment results are comparable within the country over time, allowing for consistent measurement of country progress. Improving teacher quality by :Making teaching an attract...

E- Learning/ Digital Learning

learning that is supported by digital technology or by instructional practice that makes effective use of digital technology . It makes teaching and learning a smoother experience as it includes animations, gamification and audio-visual effects. KPMG and Google report, India’s online education market is set to grow to USD 1.96 billion and around 9.6 million users by 2021 from USD 247 million and around 1.6 million users in 2016. Reskilling and online certifications, Primary & secondary supplemental education will be the largest category by 2021 and Test preparation will be the fastest growing category in 2021. Need for the digital learning guidelines: influx of digital learning resources has made the task of selecting appropriate digital learning games, applications or tools difficult for teachers, parents and school leaders. highlight the importance of creating a set of guidelines for educational technology developers to integrate principles of good learning with digital pedagog...

Higher education

Need to educate youth  relevant, equitable and inclusive education. Youth-led organizations are transforming education by partnering with Governments, educational institutions and other stakeholders, lobbying and advocating education policies and developing complementary training programs. addressing barriers for youth on the basis of economic status, ethnic group, gender, and other characteristics updating education plans and school curricula to include lessons about peace, justice and the environment and climate change, among many other areas. essential to the transformation of education into a means for inclusive youth development and sustainable development AISHE All India Survey on Higher education MHRD  Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) from 25.8% in 2017-18 to 26.3% in 2018-19 , with men 26.3% and women 26.4%. Top 6 states in total student enrolment — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Karnataka — 54.23% of the total enrolment in India. Numb...

School Education

27% disabled never able to go school UNESCO State of education report for india children with disability   Kerala and Rajasthan- States with the best quality of school educa­tion in the country, with scores of 76.6% and 72.9% respectively, in the NITI Aayog’s School Education Quality Index. Haryana, Odisha, and Assam are the big states that have improved the most whereas Karnataka and Uttarakhand saw the biggest drop. Among smaller states- Meghalaya, Nagaland and Goa improved considerably while Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram have shown a drop. Among UTs- Delhi, along with Chandigarh, has retained its overall performance. government expenditure on education is less than 3% of the GDP and the pupil-teacher ratio for elementary school stands at 24:1 , lower than that of comparable countries such as Brazil and China. Lifelong education is based on four pillars learning to know, Learning to do, learning to live together, learning to be Govt measures sarva shiksha Abhiyaan to achie...

Teacher education and training

Niti aayog strategy @75 Objective Enforcing minimum teacher standards through rigorous teacher eligibility tests and criteria for the induction of teachers. Improving in-service teacher training system. Increasing teacher accountability for learning outcomes of students. Addressing the problem of teacher vacancies and teacher absenteeism. Current Situation National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) is the regulator for teacher education in the country. Inadequate accreditation and grading process followed by NCTE has resulted in bad quality of teachers at primary and higher educational level. There is a vacancy of 9 lakh teachers in schools , of which 4.2 lakh teacher vacancies are in SSA schools. Thirty-three per cent of schools do not meet the pupil-teacher ratio. Constraints insufficient regulatory monitoring of teacher education institutions. eligibility test in some states are not adequately robust. inadequate in-service training programs as well as lack of public funding supp...