Education and Equity: Challenges of post primary education in India – CBPS Discussion Paper for CBPS Annual Seminar, March 14, 2018
Post-primary education in India: The context and need ‘Quality Education’ has been recognised as one of the foundational conditions for achieving sustainable development. Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) state that quality education consists of ensuring equitable opportunities to access and complete education at all levels, including opportunities to access good quality technical, […]
Getting a Second Chance
Transition from upper primary to secondary schooling is an important topic of discussion and incentives and infrastructure/inputs are planned and being worked on. Statistics suggest that although most children in India go to primary school, a large number of students drop out before completing Class X. This means that a considerable proportion of India’s youth […]
Secondary Education: Thinking Creatively
Indian secondary education system focuses generally on rote learning, which encourages students to learn the subject matter in a fixed envelope and reproduce from the same, on being questioned during evaluation – tests/examinations, even the test patterns are predefined for the curriculum. The envelope of learning in this environment blinkers the process of learning by […]