Every year since 2005, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has reported on the schooling status and the ability to do basic reading and arithmetic tasks for children in the 5-16 age group in rural India. After ten years of producing an annual report, in 2016, ASER switched to an alternate-year cycle where this ‘basic’…
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Please click here to access the Draft National Education Policy 2019, which has been prepared under the chairpersonship of Dr. K Kasturirangan. —– Please click here to access the major findings of NSS 75th Round Report: Key Indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India, July 2017 to June 2018 (released on 23rd November 2019). Kindly click here to access the…
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The Annual Status of Education Report, ASER 2017: Beyond Basics (released in January, 2018), covers 28,323 youth aged 14-18 years from 23,868 households belonging to 26 rural districts across 24 states. The ASER 2017 collected information for four domains – activity, ability, awareness and aspirations. The key findings of the 12th ASER (i.e. 2017 ASER) are…
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The Annual Status of Education Report, ASER 2016 (released in January, 2017), covers 589 rural districts. The survey was carried out in 17,473 villages, covering 350,232 households and 562,305 children in the age group 3-16 years. The key findings of the 11th ASER (i.e. 2016 ASER) are as follows (please click here to access): At the national level,…
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The 71st round National Sample Survey on “Social Consumption: Education” was conducted during January to June 2014. The information in the survey was collected from 36,479 households in rural areas and 29,447 households in urban areas during the 71st round. The key findings of the 71st round NSS report: Key Indicators of Social Consumption in India…
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The Annual Status of Education Report 2014 (released in January 2015) is based on a survey carried out in 16,497 villages, covering 341,070 households and 569,229 children in 577 rural districts of India. The key findings of the ASER 2014 report are as follows (Please click link1, link2 & link3 to access): Enrollment levels and Out-of-school proportions • 2014 is the sixth…
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According to the 11th UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013-14 entitled Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all (please click link 1, link 2 and link 3 to download): • Ethiopia and India have contributed significantly to the overall reduction in out-of-school numbers since 2006. In 2011, India had out-of-school population of 16.74 lakhs whereas in 2006 its out-of-school population…
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The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER-rural) is an annual household survey to assess children’s schooling status and basic learning levels in reading and arithmetic. The 9th ASER 2013 report, facilitated by PRATHAM, covers 550 districts, 15941 villages, 14724 schools, 3.27 lakh households and 5.7 lakh children in the age group 3-16 years. According to…
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According to the NSS report no. 551 (66/10/6) titled Status of Education and Vocational Training in India (66th Round), July 2009-June 2010, published in March 2013, MoSPI, http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/nss_report_551.pdf: In the present survey, NSSO collected data on educational particulars like educational level attained – both general and technical, current attendance in educational institution, type of institution, vocational training…
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