96.5% of children in India go to elementary school, finds survey
Bihar Stars In Elementary Education
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
The survey, the only private audit of elementary education in the country, found an increase of half a percentage point in enrolment over 2009. But it said there was an overall decline in students’ ability to do basic mathematics and only 53.4% of children in Class V could read Class II level textbooks. Teacher attendance also showed consistent decline which could be one of reasons for a big increase in enrolment in private schools and tuitions. Punjab bucked the trend, with students showing exceptional improvement in maths.
LEARNING CURVE
ENROLMENT: 96.5% of kids in 6-14 age group in rural India are enrolled in schools, of whom 71.1% are enrolled in govt schools and 24.3% in private institutes
PROGRESS: In Bihar, enrolment of boys was 95.6% and that of girls 95.4%. In 2006, the figures were 87.7% and 82.4%, respectively. Students of Kerala and Bihar showed good results in problem-solving abilities. As against 43.5% of students of Class V in 2008, more than 69% could do divisions in 2010
DECLINE: Only 65.8% of Class I students could recognize numbers from 1 to 9 in 2010 as compared to 69.3% in 2009, a decline of 4%
MATHS PROBLEM: Only 36.5% of Class III children could solve two-digit subtraction problems last year as against 39% a year before. In rural areas, only 35.9% in Class V could solve easy division problems last year. Only Punjab has bucked the trend
Big jump in pvt school enrolment
O verall star performer , Bihar emerged with steady as a improvement in enrolment. Enrolment of boys in the state was 95.6% and that of girls 95.4%. In 2006, 12.3% of boys and 17.6% girls in Bihar were out of school.
O verall star performer , Bihar emerged with steady as a improvement in enrolment. Enrolment of boys in the state was 95.6% and that of girls 95.4%. In 2006, 12.3% of boys and 17.6% girls in Bihar were out of school.
Among states continuing to retain poor numbers in girl’s education, Rajasthan had 12.1% girls aged 11-14 years out of school and Uttar Pradesh 9.7%. In both states, there has been no change in the percentage of out-of-school girls.
The survey conducted in all the districts of the country shows a large number of schools in the country fulfilling norms laid down in the Right to Education Act.
At the same time, the report showed a big increase in enrolments in private schools — from 21.8% of all school-going children in 2009 to 24.3% last year. The trend has been holding since 2005. Southern states have more students going to private schools. In Andhra Pradesh, enrolment increased from 29.7% in 2009 to 36.1% while in Tamil Nadu it jumped from 19.7% to 25.1%. Kerala had 54.2% of children in private schools, up from 51.5% last year, and Karnataka 20% (16.8% in 2009).
Among northern states, enrolment in private schools grew rapidly in Punjab — from 30.5% in 2009 to 38% in 2010. Mathematics proved to be a big bugbear for students across the country. The proportion of Class I students who cousld recognize numbers fell from 69.3% in 2009 to 65.8%. Barely 36.5% of Class III students could handle two-digit subtraction problems, as compared to 39% in 2009. The proportion of children in Class V who could do simple division dropped from 38% to 35.9%.
Notably, Punjab bucked the trend. While 56.3% of students in Class II in the state could recognize numbers one to 100 in 2008, the figure jumped to 70.4% in 2010. Similarly, the proportion of Class IV children who could do subtraction went up from 66.9% in 2008 to 81.4%.A positive feature of the report was the increasing number of five-year-olds in school. Nationally, it increased from 54.6% in 2009 to 62.8%. Karnataka emerged as an big achiever on this score.
The State of Education Report 2010 was based on an NGO-led survey that covered seven lakh children in 14,000 villages in 522 districts
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