Country-longitude: Challenges of school education in the country

Context and background 

India is considered to be a country of scientists, engineers and doctors and their dancers are known all over the world. But when it comes to school education, the situation does not look very good. In the case of literacy and education, India is counted among the backward countries of the world. Recent Annual Status of Education Report in effect  (Annual Status of Education Report-ASER ) are startling revelations about the primary and secondary education

They had received education or are going to join the Class 8 exam. That is, this report is based on the teens / adolescents of 14 to 18 years of age, who have completed elementary education.

Main point of report

 This survey report of the 12th edition of 'Asher' has outlined the challenges of school education. This survey included four other areas, including activity, capacity, awareness and aspiration, from the basic ability to read and solve the general questions of mathematics   .

• This report points to the miserable condition of education in rural India, where the circumstances are really worrisome. 
• This situation is also very important because in this age group, there are about 10 percent population of the country, which is considered as a picture of India tomorrow.
• These conditions can not be said well in the wake of the continuous unemployment in the country, because those who know this level can not be included in the skilled work force. 
• This survey included 28,323 children of 14 to 18 years.

To get teachers out of their concert zone  It takes time for a teacher to prepare himself according to the new strategy and he wants to return to his old experiences and old ways, because he is his concert zone. They feel comfortable here and want to stay in their comfort zone. Efforts will be made to get teachers out of their concert zone and to have a new perspective of new challenges and to find lasting solutions in a new way.  (Team Vision Input)

•  This report shows that most children in rural areas of this age group are not aware of fundamentals such as:
• 14 percent of children do not recognize the country map
• 36% of children do not know the name of the capital of the country
• 21 percent of children do not know which state they live in
• 40 percent of children aged 18 years of age are unable to read general sentences written in English 
• 25 percent of children do not read simple sentences written in their mother tongue 
• 57 percent of children 986/8 =? Can not solve general math questions like 
• 40 percent of children fail to respond when asked to show time in the clock
• 1 kg + 500g + 2x200g + 2x50g =? 44 percent of children unable to answer
• 24 percent of the children were unable to add a total of two thousand, five hundred, fifty and twenty rupees, that is, they can not count the money
• 60 percent of the children could not answer the question that if they went to sleep at 9:30 in the night and got up at 6:30 in the morning, how many hours they slept
• 62 percent of the children failed to say how much money would be required to pay after 10% discount for any item of Rs. 1500 
• Only 28 percent of children used the Internet 
• Only 26 percent of students used computers
• 75 percent of the children have their bank accounts and this number is high because all types of scholarships come directly to bank accounts
• Only 60 percent of students want to continue their education beyond 12th standard. 
• Most of those who do not read after the 12th standard are such that there is pressure to work along with studies.
• Almost 42 percent of the young people who work with studies and 79 percent of them are engaged in agricultural activities.
• At present, there are about 10 million young people of the age group of 18 years and only 5 percent of those going to school are those who are taking any kind of business education.
• According to the survey report, three-fourths of the young people, who have to work every day at home along with studies, and 71 percent boys and 89 percent girls.
• It also states that as the age of girls increases, in the same proportion, the number of dropouts of their school increases.
• There is no special difference till the age of 14, but when the age of 18, the ratio of boys and girls is 28 and 32 percent respectively. 
• This survey report shows that there is a clear difference between the professional aspirations of boys and girls. 
• The interest of most boys is to become an engineer with the army, going to the police, while the girls want to become nurse and teacher. 
• According to this survey report, there are about 100 million youth in the age group of 18 years in the country
• The government is campaigning for the inclusion of villages in mainstream through digital India, but the statistics of the survey are also a disappointing sign

This report covered 26 rural districts of 24 states, which included districts of Uttar Pradesh to Varanasi and Bijnor, Bhopal and Rewa from Madhya Pradesh, Dhamtari from Chhattisgarh, Muzaffarpur from Bihar and Sonepat from Haryana.

Apart from this report, World Bank's report  warns of the crisis of knowledge in education  that the crisis is ethical and economic.

Why such a situation? One of the biggest goals of leaving education in the middle is poverty Children go towards normal employment due to family obligations and social circumstances. Decrease in quality of education in rural zones Lack of teachers in rural areas Almost all primary schools have their own buildings in the country, but there is a very pitiable condition in some places of walls, chambers, doors, windows and toilets.  In 2000, the lack of 24 lakh teachers in the country was estimated In the last 7 years, lakhs of teachers are working on contract, and half of them are not trained. No Child Failure Policy till Class VIII In rural primary schools lack of basic amenities teachers do not want to go  Textbooks are not available to children on time  If a teacher does not go to school at some point, then the whole system stops Many times a teacher comes load of many classes, so it is not possible to pay attention to all children.   At the same time, the dedication of the first teacher, who taught in schools, has now decreased.   Apart from this, arrangements like electricity, water, toilets, boundary walls, libraries and computers are right, so somewhere in a very lean state More than 90 percent of public funding is spent on teachers' salary and administration.  India has the highest number of teachers without leave  The Right to Education Act 2009 did not achieve the goal of 35 students on every teacher (Team Vision Input)

 Determination of learning outcome

On the issue of quality of education, the central government is cooperating with all the states. The goal of the Central Government is that the quality of government schools increase rapidly. Its aim is to spread quality education across the country. For this, children are being benefitted by keeping the provisions of 'learning outcome' under the primary education system in the country. This shows that what should be taught to children after the first, second and third classes. From this, parents can also know what their child should have in such a class. The suggestion of studying from NCERT books in all schools (including private schools) at the upper primary level is also a commendable initiative in this direction.

Student, education and courses Despite all the changes, there will be a need to learn to read and write children and work on mathematical skills.   Efforts to include employment skills in school education should be given adequate importance.  Government schools should start studying from the nursery so that the  school  can go ahead with the issue of 'radiance' . Its aim will be to bring the desired improvement in the learning level of the children in primary classes. There is a need to pay special attention to the training of teachers of  government schools  so that more and more teachers can get access to the latest cutting-edge methods and research. To ensure the learning of children, it is   very important to emphasize the class room observation , because the actual quality of study is determined by the actual class room teaching rather than the assessment. (Team Vision Input)

Conclusion:  Education in India is on the states, so all states have resolved its challenges in their own way. It has different results. Those who were successful in developing education in state schools, gave priority to the educational challenges of poor children. But a large part of the middle class at primary and secondary level sends their children to private schools to get English education. However, the promise of free and compulsory education has been made in the Constitution. The goal of completing it in ten years was also fixed. But it could not be completed. The government did not have the money for this. Therefore, a concrete scheme could not be started at the national level.

In the country, especially in rural areas, this problem is not limited to only reading English or solving math problems, but this problem is multi-faceted. If this is not immediately noticed then it has the capacity to affect the country's demographic dividend. That's why Arvind Subramanyam, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, released this survey report and expressed concern over it.

To improve the condition of primary and secondary school education, the country will have to face tough challenges, especially on the success of schemes that make education universal rights remain skeptical at many levels.