Giving children the kind of inputs and experiences they need has positive effects not only on their academic performance but also on a range of socio-economic outcomes.
The responsibility of the school education system in the process of nation-building is enormous.
According to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2018, in India, the percentage of total enrollment of 60 or less has increased to 29.4% in 2018 from 17.3% in 2010. The percentage of computer availability in school for children was 9.3% in 2010 which is 22.6% in 2018. Though the statistics reflects certain advances, there remain a lot to be done in providing quality education.
organisation that envisions ensuring quality education for all children from ‘under-resourced’ and ‘at risk’ sections of society. Shubhra Chatterji, Director and VicePresident, Vikramshila Education Resource Society, told BE, “Having worked with the public school education system for nearly thirty years, I have been fortunate to witness some major changes in our school education system during this period – the efforts of the government to make education accessible to all children, making education a fundamental right, creating more schools to universalise access, improving physical infrastructure of existing schools, providing training to teachers, formulating a progressive and ambitious curricular framework, upgrading textbooks, engaging with civil society organisations to usher in innovations are some of those.
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