Education

Education has been one of the prime areas for studies at CBPS. Some of the earlier studies reviewed State Rules drafted for the RTE Act as well as financial and governance challenges for its implementation across different states. Impact of audio-video tools for teaching, quality of acceptance of children admitted under the RTE Act 25% reservation criteria, public expenditure analysis, teacher motivation aspects, review of the working conditions of teachers and community engagement in schools are some of the other studies that were conducted. Currently, CBPS is working on reviewing Open and Distance Secondary Education as a strategy for achieving universalisation of education as well as trying to understand the employment and higher education opportunities for those undergoing distance education through National Institute of Open Schooling and State Open Schools. Another study is analysing the status of education in tribal districts of Maharashtra, primarily through academic and school assessments. The process of online application under RTE Act 25% reservation is also being reviewed in Karnataka.

Projects

26 Oct
2022

Evaluation of Thousand Schools Program On Going

Duration: October 2022 to March 2023 Status: On-Going Funder/ Partner: Tata Steel Foundation Universalisation of elementary education continues to be a major challenge despite many initiatives by both the central and state governments Challenges related to learning deficit in children, high rate of drop-outs and child labour continue to linger, particularly in remote regions. ASPIRE, an N...
26 Aug
2022

Protecting and Enhancing Early Childhood Development (ECD) during Covid-19 Crisis across the Indian States of Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat On Going

Duration: August 2022- November 2023 Status: On-Going Funder/ Parnter: UNICEF India India is home to approximately 164 million children 0-6 years of age, constituting about 20 percent of the world’s child population in this age group. Yet, with 38.4 percent children under 5 years of age stunted, 21 percent wasted, and only 9.6 percent children aged 6-23 months receiving an adequate diet...
13 Jul
2022

Scoping Study: Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment of foundational learning in India to provide a road map to incorporate holistic skill development at foundational level Completed

Duration: July 2022 - October 2022 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Save the Children The New Education Policy, 2020 of India (NEP 2020) highlights the worrying status of Early Childhood Care and Education in India and argues for monumental changes in the conception. With a restructured model of ECCE provisioning, it becomes pertinent to probe the existing on-ground realities and this ...
25 Dec
2021

Public Expenditure on School Education and Quality of Educational Provisions in Assam with Special Reference to the Tea Garden Region Schools Completed

Duration: December 2021 – April 2022 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: The Purva Bharati Educational Trust The Tea gardens form significant portion of the Assam geography and employs nearly 10 lakh garden workers across 856 tea estates in the state who are critical labour force for the tea production. Welfare of these tea garden workers is one of the important aspects of the develop...
30 Aug
2021

Mapping of Programmes and Schemes including Budget and Expenditure for Children’s Education (3 – 18 years) of all Ministries and Departments by Union Government and in Select States On Going

Duration: August 2021 to June 2022 Status: On-Going Funder/ Partner: UNICEF, New Delhi The introduction of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act. in 2009 provided the legal mandate for the provision of elementary education for the age group of 6-14 years but the same framework has not been extended to cover the secondary and early childhood stages of education. H...
22 Feb
2021

End Term Review of the project – Building Stakes, Strengthening Quality: Nirantar’s Interventions in Literacy and Education Completed

Duration: February 2021 to April 2021 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Nirantar Trust Nirantar has been working on adult education modules since its inception, but formalised a particular module for adult education from 2009 onwards. From 2015 onwards, it undertook a five year project to deepen the work that they were already doing in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and to act as a Resource Agenc...
16 Dec
2020

A Review of Master’s in Public Health Education in India Completed

Duration: December 2020 to March 2022 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Thakur Family Foundation A study of current public health programmes in India showed that 44 universities in the country offer a Master’s in Public Health Course (Tiwari et al., 2018). These include medical as well as non-medical universities. However, there is no central regulatory body governing public health c...
26 May
2020

National capacities strengthened to address gender equality in education Completed

Duration: 26 June 2019 – 20 December 2019 Funder/ Partner: The United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Achieving gender equality in and through education is central to meeting the targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is clear that gender disparity exists in education, and largely disadvantages girls. However, there are specific disadv...
27 Feb
2020

Request for a chapter on Teachers in India for Springer Volume Completed

Prof. Yusuf Sayed from the University of Sussex and Dr. Padma Sarangapani from TISS approached Dr. Jyotsna Jha to contribute one chapter on 'Mapping the teaching profession' in Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia (HESSA), to be published by Springer in 2019, as a part of their Major Reference Works Series. The Handbook covers 10 countries in South Asia. Manzoor Ahmed from Bangladesh als...
21 Sep
2018

Assessing the effect of one-to-one youth mentoring programme of high-risk adolescents Completed

Duration: June 2018 - March 2019 Funder/Partner: Dalyan Foundation The field of youth mentoring in India is at a very nascent stage in terms of the development of practice and evidence. We undertake an evaluation of a mentoring programme offered by Mentor Together to adolescents who belong to socially and economically marginalised background. The mentoring programme through a one-to-one mentorin...

Education

Projects

Areas of Work