Tag: Right to Education
Why Delhi’s Government School Teachers Feel they are Not Doing the Job they were Hired for
A survey in Delhi’s schools shows teachers feel helpless, guilty and like clerks. They are overworked and spend less time teaching.
Lessons from the PAISA Project
This article will look at some of the reasons why PAISA and PAISA-type studies are required in a country like India, the lessons we have learnt from it and finally some thoughts on solutions that are needed in order to ensure effective delivery of social services, including elementary education.
The politicisation of transfers has undermined teacher accountability
Networking and building relationships with politicians is for teachers a necessary survival tactic and therefore a legitimate activity, relegating teaching to the background. Teachers, on their part, have used their access to politicians to game the system.
Education not yet for all
Expenditure as a share of total approved budgets has been decreasing for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
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.