India Infrastructure Report 2012: Private Sector in EducationToday, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out from secondary school in spite of high financial returns of secondary education, and those who do complete it have inferior conceptual knowledge. Higher education is over-regulated and under-governed, keeping away serious private providers and reputed global institutes. Graduates from high schools, colleges and universities are not readily employable, and few are willing to pay for skill development. Ironically, the Right to Education Act, if strictly enforced, will result in closure of thousands of non-state schools, and millions of poor children will be left without access to education. Eleventh in the series, India Infrastructure Report 2012 discusses challenges in the education sector — elementary, secondary, higher, and vocational — and explores strategies for constructive change and opportunities for the private sector. It suggests that immediate steps are required to reform the sector to reap the benefits from India’s ‘demographic dividend’ due to a rise in the working age population. Result of a collective effort led by the IDFC Foundation, this Report brings together a range of perspectives from academics, researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing educational practices. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers and corporates. |
Contents
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 and | |
Social Inequalities in Education | |
Every Child in School and Learning Well in India Investigating | |
Learning the Right Lessons Measurement Experimentation and the Need | |
Secondary Education | |
Private Higher Education The Global Surge and Indian Concerns | |
The Emerging Market for Higher Education Rationalising Regulation | |
Quality Accreditation and Global University Ranking Issues before | |
Private Sectors Role in Indian Higher Education | |
Higher Education Law and PrivatelyFunded University Education | |
Skill Development in India A Transformation in the Making | |
From the Right to Schooling to the Right to Learning Towards a | |
Private Initiative in Indias Education Miracle | |
LowCost Private Schools for the Poor in India Some Reflections | |
Annie Koshi | |
Private Sector in Professional and Vocational Education | |
Positioning Teachers in the Emerging Education Landscape | |
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