Jharkhand has highest proportion of children studying in single-teacher schools in India (22.2%) 30% of all government primary schools in the state are single teacher schools Dumka, West Singbhum and Ranchi have highest number of single teacher schools A spirited demonstration happened today against single-teacher schools. Parents and children from…
Webinar on 23.12.22 – Is EdTech a danger to Education?
Watch the webinar recording on https://youtu.be/1BEnk1-JJGA. Reports discussed in the Webinar: Access the report – Digital Dollar? An exploratory study of the investments by IFC in the Indian educational technology sector Access the policy brief – Educational Technology in School Education in India Join EdTech India Watch on Telegram :…
Landscape Report on Educational Technology in Schools
— Prof. Rajaram S. Sharma, Former Joint Director, CIET, NCERT, New Delhi The evolution of mass education has resulted in a school model which involves structuring and age-wise stratification, organisation of curricula, training of teachers in the techniques of instruction, classroom processes, enablers such as timetables or lesson plans and…
STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CHILDREN IN FOUR STATES IN INDIA
Read the report here Tata Trusts commissioned and supported a research study to assess and understand “Impact of Covid-19 on Children in 4 States – Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.” The study aimed at understand impact of the pandemic in multi-dimensional manner, going beyond only education or livelihood. The…
NCEE recommends that blanket school closures not be an immediate response to the air pollution crisis in Delhi.
The Delhi government had closed primary schools last week, based on a recommendation from the NCPCR, owing to the air pollution crisis in the city. As the air quality has improved, schools have been re-opened from today. While the concern about the health and well-being of children is valid, the…
Report on Mapping of Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India
Download report here Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy has just launched their new research report, “Clearing the Air: A Synthesised Mapping of Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India | April 2020-May 2022”. In the context of varied estimations of the impact of COVID-19 on the Out of School Children…
NCEE is hiring
Position: Coordinator Organisation: National Coalition on the Education EmergencyLocation: Bengaluru/Delhi (preferred) About the Organisation: The National Coalition on the Education Emergency is a group of individuals and organisations that have come together to work on issues relating to the impact on the pandemic on school education in India. The NCEE…
Insights from a Study of Middle School Students’ Foundational Mathematics and Language Skills
Introduction 175 students from government higher primary schools in Bengaluru were engaged as part of a study to understand their learning needs in the context of schools being re-opened after the prolonged school closures during the pandemic. The study was conducted through a series of activities wherein students worked individually,…
Meeting of National Coalition on the Education Emergency – 29 January 2022
Members of the coalition met on 29th January 2022 to review the work done so far, share the situation in different states across the country and discuss the priorities of the NCEE going forward. Agenda:1. Introduction2. A brief presentation on the work done so far by the NCEE3. Discussion on…
Press Release – Schools must be the last to be closed
Complete lock down has severely affected our economy and jobs earlier. School lock down will similarly seriously harm our children, and that too, over the long term. Keeping schools open is necessary to reduce this serious harm and resume the processes of learning. Schools must be the last to close…