Making India truly NIPUN needs more ammunition
7 months ago

Making India truly NIPUN needs more ammunition

Hindustan Times  

Like with many other things, the Covid pandemic dealt a severe blow to students’ learning nationally. Faced with this reality, in July 2021, the government of India launched the country’s most ambitious mission to try and fix its crumbling public education edifice: National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy Bharat. Interestingly, states such as Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are doing better on this front, as they launched their initiatives even before NIPUN Bharat came to be, with the support of NGOs and civil society organisations such as Central Square Foundation, Pratham, Education Alliance, and Peepul. The competency in word reading increased from 18% to 34% over two years, indicating a growing ability among students to recognise and read words accurately. While this is a great step, it needs to continue well beyond the mission since the states’ own education budgets mostly go into paying teacher’s salaries.

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NIPUN Bharat 2.0: Rewriting the education story
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NIPUN Bharat 2.0: Rewriting the education story

Hindustan Times  

Reforming one of the world’s largest and most diverse education systems would not have been possible without the pivotal unveiling of India’s child-centred, ambitious and futuristic National Education Policy 2020. Aimed at ensuring every child in India masters basic reading, writing, and arithmetic by Grade 3, the mission aligns with the NEP 2020’s urgent call: “Our highest priority must be …

ASER 2024 shows massive improvement in basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in primary school children: Detailed report
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ASER 2024 shows massive improvement in basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in primary school children: Detailed report

Op India  

School education in rural India is witnessing a quiet but profound recovery from the Covid pandemic’s losses. States with more than a 10 percentage point increase in this proportion between 2022 and 2024 in government schools include Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha, and Maharashtra,” the report states. Coming to the state-wise percentage of children aged 6-14 enrolled …

U.P. has shown remarkable progress in numeracy learning: ASER 2024
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U.P. has shown remarkable progress in numeracy learning: ASER 2024

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW Uttar Pradesh has made remarkable progress in literacy and numeracy learning for FLN grades, according to the Annual Status of Education Report 2024 released on Tuesday. As per report, the state showed a 7 percentage point rise in arithmetic skills across standards III and V, placing it on a par with top-performing states such as Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. …

ASER 2024: Elementary age group shows substantial improvement in basic arithmetic & reading skills since 2018
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ASER 2024: Elementary age group shows substantial improvement in basic arithmetic & reading skills since 2018

Hindustan Times  

The basic arithmetic levels of children have shown an substantial improvement in both government and private schools in India, reaching the highest level in over a decade. ASER 2024: Children in the elementary age group have shown substantial improvement in basic arithmetic & reading skills since 2018, particularly in government schools. Furthermore, as per the report, government schools across most …

The seven musical notes of education to solve the learning crisis
8 months ago

The seven musical notes of education to solve the learning crisis

Hindustan Times  

“The 21st century will belong to India.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an address earlier this year and this statement has had a ripple effect through all spheres of development. NEP called out the critical role of early learning, and the ministry of education then launched India’s early learning mission--NIPUN Bharat in 2021. Over the past three years, NIPUN …

Smaller citizens: On the gaps in India’s education system
1 year, 2 months ago

Smaller citizens: On the gaps in India’s education system

The Hindu  

January 19, 2024 12:47 am | Updated 08:54 am IST The pandemic was difficult for India’s youngest citizens, the children, but the true import of its impact is coming to light now. In the Annual Status of Education Report, titled ‘ASER 2023: Beyond Basics’ and released on Wednesday, a survey by civil society organisation Pratham among rural students aged 14 …

Back to school: 22.7 lakh adults sit for literacy and numeracy skills exams this year
2 years ago

Back to school: 22.7 lakh adults sit for literacy and numeracy skills exams this year

The Hindu  

A grandmother and her granddaughter; women behind veils in rural Rajasthan; a bridegroom in Madhya Pradesh; elderly couples heading to school together: these are among the 22.7 lakh unlikely students from ten States and Union Territories who in a bid to be called ‘literate,’ appeared for the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Test for 2022-23. While there is a renewed …

Investing right and early: How early years in school determines academic excellence
2 years, 6 months ago

Investing right and early: How early years in school determines academic excellence

Firstpost  

As the world celebrates International Day of Literacy, India has as much to celebrate about as much to worry. Similarly, in India’s aspirational districts, for example, the probability of girls getting primary education is about 42 per cent lower than boys, and it remains so even when other variables, such as religion and caste, are controlled. Acknowledging its deep stratified …

Andhra Pradesh Govt Bets on NEP 2020 to Transform School Education in State
3 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh Govt Bets on NEP 2020 to Transform School Education in State

News 18  

The Andhra Pradesh government is betting big on the National Education Policy 2020 to transform school education in particular, through comprehensive academic and administrative reforms, with the key light on improving the learning outcomes. Various studies in recent years have exposed the “poor reading and comprehension skills” among students while the government has identified many “key concerns” that left the …

The Kerala Model School
5 years, 5 months ago

The Kerala Model School

India Today  

The Niti Aayog's recent School Education Quality Index 2016-17, released on September 30, saw Kerala topping the category of large states with 82.2 percentage points followed by Tamil Nadu with 73.4 percentage points. MORE FROM INSIGHT | Why Uddhav Thackeray agreed to play second fiddle to Fadnavis Realising the gravity of the situation, in 2016 the new Left Democratic Front …

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