PRIMARY EDUCATIONA STEP TOWARDS NATION BUILDING

Team Details

Alluri Dinesh Varma Eshu Kalra Harshvardhan Singh Rahul Satija Suyesh Sanghi

IMT Ghaziabad 13-15

Problem Our Model ESR Economic Implications

Problem Definition

With over 8 lakh schools imparting primary education in the country, the quality they provide is still very alarming

Even with implementation of Right to education act the quality of education is deteriorating. Only 61% of allocations were spent in FY 2011-12

Only 40% of the schools giving primary education(only primary) in India have a permanent Headmaster

Some basic facilities like drinking water(8%) and sanitation facilities (50%) are still missing from many schools all over the country, especially in rural areas.

Private education institutes have been flourishing all over the country especially in rural areas due to low quality of education which acts as a deterrent for many with low level of incomes.

Even after reaching a phenomenal level of penetration of primary schools the quality of primary education

in our country is at dangerously low levels and is declining at a very fast rate.

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Present Condition

Student attendance is at 71%, a numberthat has dropped in the last four years. Biharis at the bottom of the list here, with 50%student attendance. The teacherabsenteeism is also an issue with only 75%teachers present on a given day

Cause: Since the quality teachers areunavailable, the students have no motivationto come and attend the school

The number of private school enrolment is atdangerously high levels and the privatetutoring is also at a worrying stage.

Cause: The absence of quality teachers andthe lack of infrastructure in govt. schools iskeeping them away from the school

The quality of teachers specially contractualis very bad because most them have amaximum qualification of Senior Secondary orless and a large number of governmentteachers have also failed to pass the TeacherEligibility Test (TET) mandated by the RTE. InDelhi, only 7% of teachers passed the TET

As per the surveys like ASER and DICE the low quality of education has prevalent almost all over the rural

belt of the country and also to some parts of urban area in some backward states like Bihar and Jharkhand.

To tackle the

present scenario,

we have Shiksha

model

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SHIKSHA MODEL

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ORGANISATION STRUCTURE OF THE GOVERNING BOARD

committees

State Level HeadsZonal HeadsNational Head

President

VP North Zone

Director MP

Director UP

VP West Zone

VP East Zone

VP South Zone

Director TN

Director AP

Treasury

General Awareness

Committee

ESR Review board

QA Committee

Cost Estimate

• The estimated costs for this organisation is expected to be INR 75 Crore per year for its operations across India.

• All costs like employee salaries are estimated as per current trend in the country.

• The yearly costs mentioned above, include a one time investment of INR 30 Crore on infrastructure.

• The costs might go down if there are already existing Government infrastructure facilities.

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Governing Board

The main purpose of the review board is to enhance the quality of education by improvising upon the teaching standards in primary education of India.

Activities

Why ?

•Assuring the quality of education provided to students, especially from Government schools.

•Making sure the curriculum of schools and the curriculum of teachers’ courses are as per current day standards. Making suggestions for the changes in curriculum wherever required.

•Make sure the Pupil to Teacher (PTR) ratio is uniformly distributed. The overall ratio in India stands at 32%. But it needs to be uniform across all states.

• Coming up with infrastructure facilities for schools.

• Having a complaint wing for teaching related concerns with a toll-free number, which can address them accordingly.

QA Committee

•Yearly review of information provided by each private school. Ensuring private schools are compliant with the rules of Education Social Responsibility (ESR).

•Reviewing the performance of teachers based on quantitative and qualitative results, and recognize suitable members. Also, reviewing the completion of their goals and promoting them accordingly.

•Ensuring facilities for teachers who travel to rural areas as part of ESR activities, also reimburse for expenses like travel etc.

•Measures against private schools who do not comply with ESR activities.

ESR Review Board

•Arrange workshops for teachers across all the regions to improve the teaching skills and their responsibility towards the society.

•Encourage CSR activities towards educational sector and provide corporates with information on which area they need to invest their resources in.

•Design training programmes or workshops for teachers. Also promote the movement of education in India to attract more resources.

General Awareness Committee

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Teachers – A Change in the ProcessThe decrease in the quality of education can be attributed to lack of infrastructure, but mostly to the decrease in the quality of

teaching process. Over 99 percent of the 7.95 lakh teachers who appeared for the latest CTET, a benchmark for teacher eligibility,

failed to clear the exam. This clearly shows the lack of competency and motive in teachers. Below are the proposed solutions for

motivating the teachers and improving the quality of teaching.

Proposed Solutions

• As per ESR, Teachers from private schools are encouraged to teach students from the surrounding Government schools, which lack quality teachers.

• Teachers recruited for Government schools should be promoted based on their performance, and not on experience alone.

• Recognition and public mention of effective teachers through media, based on the quality of education provided, number of new students one could bring in, by creating awareness programs.

• A change in the curriculum of B.Ed. Courses which inculcate social responsibility, passion towards the profession should be included in the curriculum.

Advantages and Costs

•The quality of teaching in rural areas and other Government schools would improve. Cost: The costs for this would be covered from 5% of the private school’s profits, as defined by ESR.

•Teachers would be motivated to work towards the betterment of student learning and the teaching methods too.

• Motivation factor for the teachers towards qualitative education and involve more children towards primary education. Cost: The recognition costs have been estimated at INR 80 Lakhs per annum.

• Provide better quality of teachers with more inclination towards the social cause. Cost: The change in curriculum would be taken care by the education governing board’s QA committee. Other minimal costs like new text books etc. have to be incurred.

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Schools – A Basic Need

40% of schools in India do not have

functioning toilet.

40% of schools do not have separate girls

toilet.

10% do not have access to drinking water.

60% does not have electricity

80% do not have computers

95.2% of schools are not compliant with

the complete set of RTE infrastructure

indicators

Problems Proposed Solutions

The money spent on Infrastructure

should be divided on the basis of the

current state of education in the state

e.g. Bihar, Jharkhand and North Eastern

States should get the maximum amount.

Main focus should be given on buildings

and basic amenities like water,

electricity and sanitation.

Classes should be segregated based on

the age and skill set of the students

unlike now.

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ESREducation as Social Responsibility

NORMS

• Every School must register

with the governing board

• 5% on net profit of the

school should go towards

ESR

•Annual report of the ESR

activities done by the school

must be submitted to the

board.

• If a school does not perform

ESR, it has to give a valid

reason and if found guilty

will be penalized

IMPORTANCE

• Privileged kids get the best

of education but it is right of

every child for good

education. So, imparting

ESR is necessary, which

provides part of private

schools’ resources to schools

which lack resources.

• Schools run in India to

raise its revenue, it is

necessary that every school

be in the boundaries of social

responsibility for the purpose

of social welfare and raising

the standard of education

EXPECTED RESULTS

• Improved quality of

primary education as good

teachers and schools will be

involved

• Motivation factor for other

teachers to participate

• Percentage of students

enrolled in primary

education will increase

•As a whole the net

investment on education will

increase which will create

better educational

infrastructure

AGENDA – Increasing the role of Schools in Primary education

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Primary Education: A Solution for all Evils

Healing Touch: As per the facts given by “The Guardian” the countries where the level of primary education is

good are generally good in basic healthcare facilities. E.g. Japan and Netherlands.

Walk to Equality: It can be easily concluded that by imparting the primary education a sense of equality and

respect for women can be inculcated in the child and its unlikely that a literate man would fall for such heinous

crimes.

Boosting Skill sets: When the quality of education will improve the skillset will also go up and so will be the

demand for the person. This in turn will help in decreasing unemployment.

Sowing Prosperity: India being a agriculture based economy an educated farmer has been more productive and

efficient. He will be able to practice the modern farming and thus increase its farming many folds.

Fairness at Play: An educated voter will be able to understand his good or bad and will be able to take a firm

decision about the country unlike those who have always been lured by some persons for their ulterior motives.

Towards Cleaner India: A literate person has the sense of responsibility about the environment he lives in and

will not indulge in activities that will spoil it.

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Primary Education & Economy

Taking cue from Japan’s past it is well

known that Japan was able to enjoy a

spurious economic growth after various

devastating events like world war II

because of the strong educational

system set up after Mieji Restoration.

American Education has also proven that

imparting quality education is more

important than the number of years

spent in school and it has a significant

impact on the GDP growth as well.

Source: Michaelowa, Katharina. (2000) “Returns to Education in Low Income Countries”

So a strong foundation in education sector is

needed for the economy to grow. If we can

implement this in our country then being one of

the youngest nations of the world can be the

biggest resource India could ever generate.

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References

ASER Report 2012

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/01/19/the-state-of-indian-rural-

education-2011/

DISE Report for Rural India 2011-12

DISE Report for Urban India 2011-12

http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-the-state-of-indias-primary-education-

is-shocking-598011.html

http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/india_needs_more_teachers_better_te

achers

http://www.rteforumindia.org/content/95-percent-schools-lack-rte-

infrastructure-0

http://data.gov.in/dataset/number-teachers-educational-institutions-all-

india-and-state-wise

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1746-1049.1963.tb01140.x/pdf

http://educationnext.org/education-and-economic-growth/