Enrolment in govt schools declines, but learning quality improves: Key findings from ASER 2024The Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2024 shows a decline in government school enrolment for children aged 6-14, from 72.9% in 202...
29 Jan, 2025, 02.45 PM IST
Learn to catch up on the digital lagPratham's ASER 2024 highlights a strong demand for education, with over 80% rural enrolment in pre-primary institutions and improved readin...
28 Jan, 2025, 10.59 PM IST
Rural literacy rate up over 10 pc points in past decade: Govt tells Lok SabhaRural India's literacy rate saw a significant boost over the past decade, rising by over 10 percentage points to 77.50% in 2023-24. Female ...
09 Dec, 2024, 10.07 PM IST
Time to move beyond 1-2-3-4: What the ASER report reveals about Indian education systemThe 2023 ASER report explores the educational status of 14-18-year-olds in India. The report reveals that 85.6% of the cohort are enrolled ...
21 Jan, 2024, 11.27 PM IST
Samaaj, sarkar, bazaar are now best aligned to ensure universal foundational literacy and numeracyNIPUN Bharat has set out clear and concise learning goals and outcomes. This has galvanised several state governments to put in much-needed...
02 Jul, 2023, 11.18 PM IST
Skills, competencies will drive future than degrees; old jobs vanishing due to technology: Dharmendra Pradhan"Skills and competencies will drive the future rather than degrees. There will be a constant competition between God gifted human intellige...
23 Apr, 2023, 05.25 PM IST
West Bengal on top, Uttar Pradesh at bottom of index for literacy among children below 10 yearsAmong smaller states, Punjab was at the top of the index while Telangana was at the bottom while Puducherry topped the index among union te...
24 Feb, 2023, 02.44 PM IST
All stakeholders must come on board to resolve literacy crisis caused by Covid: Rajnath Singh"It is high time to bring all the stakeholders on the same table to explore transformative solutions to the mammoth crises of foundational ...
11 Jul, 2022, 04.56 PM IST
Education ministry approves new scheme to cover all aspects of adult education for next 5 yearsThe ministry has also decided to use "Education For All" instead of "Adult Education" as the previous term did not appropriately represent ...
19 Feb, 2022, 04.21 PM IST
Foundational literacy: The way forwardThe Index presents a comprehensive evidence-backed view of factors driving India's low learning outcomes in early grades and outlines pathw...
21 Dec, 2021, 03.36 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee congratulates teachers, education dept officials as Bengal tops chart in literacy indexBengal has occupied the top position and Bihar languished at the bottom in the 'large states' category on the 'Index on Foundational Litera...
17 Dec, 2021, 03.51 PM IST
PM's Economic Advisory Council calls for complete restructuring of curriculum for early grades“Given the massive learning loss across the grades due to Covid, expanding the scope of foundational learning and numeracy (FLN) to include...
16 Dec, 2021, 08.34 PM IST
Foundational literacy index: West Bengal tops chart, Bihar at bottom in large states categoryAs far as worst performers are concerned, Ladakh has featured at the bottom in the list of UTs, while Arunachal Pradesh came last in the No...
16 Dec, 2021, 07.56 PM IST
Honing multilingualism is smart: Using wealth of India’s languages in the classroomThe Multilingualism and Multiliteracy in India Research (MultiLila) project provides some of the most recent data on positive links between...
17 Oct, 2020, 12.03 AM IST
National Education Policy 2020 has a new focus, says Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’"One of the fundamental principles of NEP is according the highest priority to achieving foundational literacy and numeracy by all students...
01 Sep, 2020, 09.26 AM IST
View: The NEP is an indicator of what India needs to do to improve educationWhile funding remains ambiguous, the New Education Policy has got several priorities right, especially the emphasis on foundational skills
01 Aug, 2020, 11.00 PM IST
Government undecided on plan for conducting class 3, 5, 8 exams under new education policyThese examinations aim to test the achievement of basic learning outcomes, through assessment of core concepts and knowledge from the natio...
01 Aug, 2020, 07.49 AM IST