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ASER 2024: 62% of children know how to block or report a profile on social media

In this year's report, older children aged 14-16 years were also surveyed about digital access and usage.
Published on Jan 29, 2025 06:09 pm IST

Ending digital divide among school goers

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The hope is that with the brilliant learning programmes available today on the net, there may be a small percentage of self-motivated children who learn on their own and can get qualified to take open board exams - Photo by Vipin Kumar.Hindustan Times
Published on Nov 15, 2024 02:43 pm IST

Role models, mentors, coaches and sponsors: What our schoolchildren need, asap

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The second ASER survey was conducted after the Covid pandemic.
Published on Jan 21, 2024 01:54 pm IST

ASER 2023: Varanasi’s enrollment rate is higher than the pan-India figure

The survey was conducted in 28 districts across 26 states, covering 34,745 youngsters in the age group of 14-18 years.
Published on Jan 18, 2024 09:58 am IST

ASER 2023: 27% in Hathras & 18% in Varanasi can’t read Class 2 text fluently

In Hathras, about 54% could not calculate time, 73% could not measure length and 46% could not apply the unitary method.
Updated on Jan 17, 2024 07:11 pm IST

ASER Report 2019: Learning level of kids grim in Lucknow, Varanasi

The survey covered a total of 1,514 villages, 30,425 households and 36,930 children in the age group of 4-8 years.
Published on Jan 14, 2020 08:59 pm IST

ASER report 2019: More girls in govt schools, boys in private schools

More girls are enrolled in government pre-schools and schools and more boys are enrolled in private LKG/UKG and private schools.
Published on Jan 14, 2020 08:31 pm IST

ASER report points to huge age-variation, weak emotional skills in early schooling in Nalanda

The report highlights huge age-variation among children enrolled with pre-primary centres, including anganwadis and private schools.
Updated on Jan 14, 2020 06:45 pm IST

More girls in age group of 4-8 years enrolled in govt schools, boys go to private schools, says ASER report

Among 4-5 year old children, 56.8 per cent girls and 50.4 per cent boys are enrolled in government schools.
Published on Jan 14, 2020 02:42 pm IST

Odisha to double class time in English, maths and science

The Education department has sent a directive to the heads of all schools to prepare a routine accordingly.
Updated on Aug 13, 2019 05:17 pm IST

Our students are not learning. But are our teachers teaching?

Untrained teachers, irrespective of schools being adequately staffed, directly affect student performance. ASER and NAS results make it clear that this is not merely a learning crisis; the Indian school education system is going through a teaching crisis
Updated on Jun 26, 2019 07:33 pm IST

To improve learning levels, stop labelling schools

We must create a system of recognition that attaches the highest importance to learning outcomes.
Updated on Apr 22, 2019 09:23 am IST

The education system, as it stands today, doesn’t make the grade

Our current school curriculum is purely academic in nature and assumes that all those who complete the compulsory stage of elementary education will continue on to secondary and then to higher education.
Updated on Apr 04, 2019 10:41 am IST

India’s school textbook content needs a rethink

The 2018 report shows that students, especially those in elementary school (Classes I-VIII), are not learning enough. To cite one metric, only half (50.3%) of all students in Class V can read texts meant for Class II students.
Updated on Feb 18, 2019 07:38 am IST

Use data-based solutions to improve learning levels

International research and pedagogical experts have pointed out that to ensure that every child is able to read with meaning by the age of eight is one of the most critical education challenges of our times.
Published on Feb 09, 2019 03:24 pm IST

Look beyond classrooms to improve learning levels in State schools

In the case of sports equipment available inside schools, nationally, almost two thirds of the schools visited seemed to fulfil this objective of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to Class 12, which was announced in the last Union budget.
Updated on Jan 21, 2019 01:01 pm IST

Schools need to become more receptive to girls

Girl students protesting against a lack of infrastructure at village Gothra, Rewari.
Updated on Jan 21, 2019 12:41 pm IST

ASER 2018: In UP, 50% students still go to pvt schools

Nearly 50% children (aged 6-14 years) in UP are enrolled in private schools whereas Pan India only 31% students go to private institutions, according to 13th Annual Status of Education Report (Rural)-2018 released on Tuesday.
Updated on Jan 16, 2019 05:33 pm IST

Majority of rural childern in Haryana still prefer private schools

The ASER survey said about 58% students from Classes 3 to 5 were able to read the Class 2-level text.
Published on Jan 16, 2019 03:32 pm IST

Evidence-based policies are a must for improving learning levels in schools

Over 237 government teacher training colleges and close to 200 colleges and universities have participated in conducting this year’s ASER survey.
Updated on Jan 15, 2019 07:47 am IST