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BLOG // NILANJAN CHAUDHURI
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Back To Basics: Understanding The Educational Indicators (Part 1 of 2)
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Knowledge
of these indicators is not only important for the policy makers in
developing sound plans and monitoring frameworks but also helps us, as
members of civil society, engage in meaningful public debates. Brushing
up our basic understanding of some of the most important educational
indicators would certainly equip us to gauge the problems in our
immediate educational policy environment, evaluate the current policies
and anticipate the future. Just to draw an analogy, while health
indicators such as blood pressure, body temperature and total blood
count indicate the condition of our physical and mental health, the
educational indicators reveal the performance or health of an
educational system. Indicators should have a reference point just like
we have normal systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings for a
healthy human being.
However, in social systems like education, reference point is a more subjective undertaking and is normally
based on some socially agreed-upon standard. Indicators are also
compared with past readings or with similar ones in other
locations.
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VIDEO // P7 NEWS
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Bihar: Samastipur's Teacher Reality Check
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Sande.. no! Mande.. no! Tuesday.. yes. We are (not really) pleased to bring share this video with you.
Indian News Channel P7 News does a reality check of primary teachers in Samastipur, Bihar. This is exactly what is wrong with our teaching.
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RESEARCH // KINGDON AND TEAL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, OCTOBER 2002
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Does Performance-Related Pay For Teachers Improve Student Performance: Some Evidence From India
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The
paper finds, using the data from a school survey, that after
controlling for student ability, parental background and resources
available, private schools get better academic results by relating pay
to achievement. The paper discusses some of the problems that may arise
when using performance related pay and presents counterarguments. The
paper also notes the differences in theaspects that are rewarded in the public and private sector and postulates some mechanisms which may give rise to this finding.
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OPINION
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DID YOU KNOW?
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
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Good education: more knowledge and skills or more jobs?
Are good learning outcomes futile without jobs? Are jobs incomplete without knowledge and skills? What, according to you, should education do: enlighten or employ?
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RTE is pushing up failure rate in class IX in Maharashtra
The
RTE policy of not failing students till std VIII is taking its toll the
very next year, in std IX, when they face competitive exams and falter
under pressure.
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Quality Concerns In India: Where Is The Problem?
Yash Aggarwal National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) May 2002
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THE RTE NEWSREEL
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Chandigarh // Hindustan Times // 5 August 2014
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25% of city's schools have minority status
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Thanks to Right to Education Act, 2009, every fourth private school in UT has minority status now. With
three more private schools in Chandigarh recently granted the minority
status by National Commission for Minority Educational Institutes
(NCMEI), the number of school with minority status has increased to 17
out of 69 recognised private schools.
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All India // Business Standard // 4 August 2014
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Over 600,000 primary teachers' posts lying vacant
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Over
600,000 posts of teachers at primary level are lying vacant under the
state sector and the national literacy mission, parliament was informed
Monday. "The total teachers post lying vacant at the primary level both
under the state sector and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are 6,06,191,"
Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani told the Rajya Sabha
in a written reply.
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Tamil Nadu // Times of India // 4 August 2014
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Teacher training programme a sham, says educationist
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CHENNAI:
When there is no dearth of schools, students, teachers or
infrastructure in the country, when numbers show increasing enrolments,
why is it that Indian students lack skills even after graduation? The
problem is a combination of factors— quality of teachers, actual
teaching time, student- teacher ratio, method of testing and lack of
political will to correct the system, said Vimala Ramachandran,
national fellow and professor at National University for Educational
Planning and Administration, Delhi.
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All India // Daily Vedas // 2 August 2014
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The Bigger Picture: The hidden malice in Right to Education
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Is
it a conspiracy or an unacceptable blunder, we don’t know. But, surely,
this system is flawed and our future generations will face the wrath.
This Act assures the production of average or below average brains.
There will be scientists and engineers in future, but ordinary ones.
This drop in scientific brains will increase our dependency on foreign
brains. Their Science and Technology will place ‘them’ on top while
Indian brains follow their instructions.
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Karnataka // Times of India // 2 August 2014
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Students from Muslim families form major chunk of school dropouts
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MYSORE:
The rate of school dropouts is high among children from Muslim
community in Mysore city. Education officials attribute it to "poverty,
illiteracy among parents and local environment". S Chandrapatil, deputy
project coordinator at Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), claimed that the
north education block has the highest number of dropouts. Here,
majority of the students are from Muslim families. As many as 1,338
students studying in Class VI, VII and VIII have quit learning to work
as per a joint survey report made by the members of an NGO and the
education department. The main cause is said to be "poverty and local
environment".
Happy Rakshabandan! We wish you a good time, in the spirit of equal rights for sisters and brothers.
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