Expenditure as a share of total approved budgets has been decreasing for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Tag: Education
Budget 2018 and education: Restoring the balance
Can India realize its demographic potential in the absence of a far-sighted policy for education as a whole?
Budget 2018: India’s secondary education challenge- it’s not elementary, my dear
India has such limited access to basic education that any conversation about quality education is seen as aspirational bordering on utopian
Single System, Disparate Schools
The gap existing within the government education system, different schools receive variable resources and end up delivering hugely different results.
Drop in number of govt schools too suggests jobs are top priority in India
But real worry is the ensuing neglect, and imminent demographic change.
Why the world’s biggest school system is failing its pupils
More Indians are attending school than ever before. But they are not learning much.
Right to Education: No sweeping change yet
Yamini Aiyar in GovernanceNow on the importance of accountability in school education to improve learning.
Part 2: Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar
The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This blog reports findings from a year-long qualitative study on frontline education administrators in Bihar.
Part 1 captured perspectives of frontline administrators on their role in the education hierarchy and how organisational design and culture shapes everyday behaviour. This part offers insights into how the frontline responds to reform efforts, and how this impacts institutionalisation and scaling up of reforms.
Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar – II
The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This column reports findings from a year-long qualitative study on frontline education administrators in Bihar.
Part 1: Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar
The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This blog reports findings from a year-long qualitative study on frontline education administrators in Bihar. It captures perspectives of frontline administrators on their role in the education hierarchy and how organisational design and culture shape everyday behaviour.