UNESCO Report @ Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report - highlighted the major challenges India face in achieving the global education goal - released globally on Tuesday
Report revealed
Right from 1million rural medical practitioners who are not graduates of accredited schools to 41% of the schools in the country not having single sex toilets
Despite
significant success India need to take note of the big gaps--how even now 2.8
million children are still out of school,
11
million out of lower secondary and 47 million out of upper secondary schools.
It
has also suggested better regulation of private tutoring, on which even the HRD
minister Prakash Javadekar is critical about, as the industry is poised to
worth over $ 200 billion by 2020 as a global industry, and a practice that is
widening the education gap between rich and poor.
Also
cited that in India a quarter are not completing lower secondary education and
there are 266 million adults and 33 million young people unable to read as per
UNESCO Institute for Statistics data.
Also
cited success India has achieved in improving gender equality . “The curriculum
for Gender Equity Movement in Schools, aimed at girls and boys aged 12 to 14
(grades 6 to 8), focused on gender, relationships, violence and emotions.
Participation helped increase recognition of forms of violence and led
gradually to fewer incidents and more reporting of physical violence.
The
report said: “In Mumbai, the Parivartan programme trained cricket coaches to
model gen der-equitable attitudes ... and communicate positive messages to young
male athletes about gender, power, masculinity and violence. It improved
bystander attitudes, with participants more likely to say they would intervene
in response to sexual jokes or sexual assault against women.“
`Can't blame teachers alone for low
test scores'
Any
disproportionate blame on any one actor for systemic educational problems can
have serious negative side-effects, widening inequality and damaging learning
is what the latest GEM Report of UNESCO shows, while demonstrating that blaming
teachers for poor scores and absenteeism is often unjust and non-constructive.
“Using
student test scores to sanction teachers and schools makes it more likely they
will adjust their behaviour to protect themselves, which may mean leaving the
weakest learners behind,“ explains Manos Antoninis, director of the GEM Report.
TNN
Report Link | http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002595/259593e.pdf
Press Release | Times
of India | 24th October 2017
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager @ Knowledge
Repository
Khaitan & Co
No comments:
Post a Comment