The recent policy documents, including the NIPUN Bharat guidelines (2021), highlight the importance of developing Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) skills to ensure future success. In simple terms, FLN refers to basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills. If learning in the foundational years encompassing three years of preschool followed by two years of grade 1…
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The sixteenth Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2021 was released online on 17th November 2021. The ASER 2021 was conducted in 25 states and 3 Union Territories. It reached a total of 76,706 households and 75,234 children in the age group of 5-16 years, as well as teachers or headteachers from 7,299 government schools…
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Kindly click here and here to access the document titled A Future at Stake – Guidelines and Principles to Resume and Renew Education (released on 2nd November, 2021), which has been prepared by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE). — The 2021 State of the Education Report for India: No Teacher, No Class (released in October, 2021) has been prepared…
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Kindly click here, here and here to access the key findings of the report titled Locked Out: Emergency Report on School Education (released on 6th September, 2021). — In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the country, as in many parts of the world, were closed in mid-March impacting approximately 286 million students (48 percent girls) from pre-primary to upper…
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The key findings of the report titled Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 for States and Union Territories (released in June, 2021), published by the Ministry of Education, are as follows (please click here and here to access): • The Performance Grading Index (PGI) for the States and Union Territories (UTs) was first published in 2019 for the reference year 2017-18….
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The key findings of the UNCEF report (please click here to access) entitled COVID-19 and School Closures: One Year of Education Disruption (released in March, 2021): • In the period between March 11, 2020 and February 2, 2021, schools have been fully closed for an average of 95 instruction days globally, which represents approximately half the time intended…
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KEY TRENDS • The 2019 India TB report says that the country accounted for a quarter of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden with an estimated 27 lakh cases in 2018. In 2018, the country was able to achieve a total notification of 21.5 lakh TB cases, of which 25 percent was from private sector. Majority of the TB burden is among the…
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The fifteenth Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2020 Wave 1) was released online on 28 October 2020 ASER 2020-Wave 1 was released at an online event attended by over 11,000 people from around the world. Every year from 2005 to 2014, ASER has reported on the schooling status and the ability to do basic…
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The key findings of the Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 (released in October 2022) by World Health Organization are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings • The case notifications of people newly diagnosed with TB in India were 16,67,136 in 2015, 17,63,876 in 2016, 16,49,694 in 2017, 19,08,683 in 2018, 21,62,323 in 2019, 16,29,301 in 2020, and…
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