Using data from the TIMSS test conducted in Orissa, Rajasthan, and nationwide in several other countries throughout the world, Tristan Zajonc and Jishnu Das show that both claims are true. From their paper:
The test-score distribution is also highly unequal—the difference between the top 5 and bottom 5 percent in both states is among the highest in the world, next only to South Africa. Students at the bottom of the distribution in both states score similarly or worse than the bottom students in the three worst performing countries. At the same time, students at the top of the distribution score higher than the top students in other low performing countries, and higher than the median student in all but the best countries. The top 5 percent of students in Orissa, for example, score higher than the median student in more than 42 of 46 countries tested
in 2003.
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Really interesting entry and paper. I would love to learn more about the breakdown of students by type of school (i.e., government vs. private vs. elite private). I am guessing that the huge difference stems from school quality, but am not 100% sure.
compared to International education system indian education lacks quality.I think in today's competitive world professional education is priority.I read an article on indianeducationinfo.wordpress.com
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Poverty is one of the major factors that undermines girls’ right to education. School fees and expenses relating to transport, clothing and books widen the gender gap: as families cannot afford to educate all their children, girls are the ones that stay at home, helping with household chores.
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Poverty is one of the major factors that undermines girls’ right to education. School fees and expenses relating to transport, clothing and books widen the gender gap: as families cannot afford to educate all their children, girls are the ones that stay at home, helping with household chores.
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Speaking only for the science education in this country I can say that it is designed almost like an obstacle course here. Those who do well do so despite the system and not because of it. Indeed, you have to have a lot going for you to do well. And science education in India is changing, unfortunately only for the worse. The course curriculum in primary schools these days is so difficult that parents are forced to engage private tutors for their wards. There is rarely, if any emphasis on physical education and developing other skills like verbal and analytical skills. The teaching community appears to have abdicated all responsibility leaving it to parents and private tutors to slug it out with their wards. And I dont really blame them entirely. The curriculum appears to be tailor made to roll out Einsteins with far too many abstract concepts to learn at too early an age. Very few teachers are adequately trained to teach this kind of curriculum. For the kids education turns into a daily grind of rote learning year after year. No wonder so many prefer to give up so soon. Those who persist are partly very gifted and partly have exceptional family / private coaching support. Even if this is a small percentage of the Indian population, in absolute terms the number of such students is still quite impressive. These are the kids that make their way to the IIT's and IIM's and are often referred to as the 'brilliant' Indian engineers. But there is the vast majority of students who did not have such a priveleged background and end up not even being able to acquire a decent education. And these numbers are even more impressive. No wonder the worldwide surveys report that these children do even worse than the worst. These comments are based on my experiences with the relativley well off and educated Indian middle class families. You can imagine what it must be like for children from the poor rural backgrounds.
Recently I have had the opportunity to contrast this with the situation is England during my stay here. I must say that in this country a far more balanced view is taken of what constitutes education. The education system plays a more enabling role in child development. What surprised me very much is that any changes to the curriculum are hotly debated as to whether they are putting too much pressure on the young minds or if at all there is a need for the changes. One such recent deabte was if the age of four is too early to teach children how to write. In fact, public health and education are probably the most widely debated issues here. I only wish we had a similar focus on these issues in India where all stakeholders could have a better say in what constitutes education
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This has been a subject of my interest for a long time and over 13 years of informal research and my current engagement with an educational technology company, we are in the process of addressing a few fundamental aspects which can help address this issue. I know for sure that technology alone cannot solve this mammoth problem.....however any effort which can bring incremental change will be a good beginning.
Currently we have over 1617 engineering colleges and over 600K students pass out every year. At any point in time we have 2.5 million students studying engineering in various campuses and 56% of them are in South India.
The big challenge we face are only 700 PHD are awarded every year in the field of engineering....which means not many are coming out of the system to fill the required positions in the teaching jobs...not many find it attractive to continue in the teaching area what with fancy pay packets in the corporates for the right talent...and very poor industry academia connect....
Well it is important for us to look at a collective long term solution...the journey has to begun NOW...
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Ratio of teachers to students is very low and teachers are not personal feelings with the students. And so the search for higher education does not stop. Easy methods and shortcuts are being adopted to achieve success.
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According to me, today's competitive world professional education is priority. But Poverty is one of the major factors that undermines girls’ right to education.more than other country there is no lackness in indian Education Syastem.so
Education System in India got very strong position.
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