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Educational Issues
The education of India is now being shaped in her classrooms
Education Commission -1964-66
This is how the Education commission described the role of education in social and economic transformation of India. While the development planners rightly recognized that expansion of education facilities has to be accompanied with significant improvements in quality and relevance of education at all levels, the outcome is quite disappointing. At the international level, the development experience in social sectors
Show that a literate society has enormous gains over an illiterate society and no illiterate society has ever been able to modernize and progress. We are now transiting to a knowledge society where the quality and relevance of education would play a crucial role in economic development. Poor quality of teaching learning and systemic level inefficiencies affect the learners as well the society in many ways.
The long-term implications include lower productivity levels of the perspective workforce, resistance to modernization and perpetuation of inefficient production systems where cost benefit ratio adversely affect the economic sustainability of production processes.
Facts and Figures
a) Total Average Drop out rate of students in Class I to X for the period 1997 -2007 is around 65%!!
b) Female Literacy rate in Andhra is around 50%, which is cause of concern. |
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