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ASER 2024: More than 80% under 5 enrolled in pre-primary institutions in 2024

The report also mentions that the proportion of ‘underage’ students i.e. age 5 or below, entering standard I is decreasing over time. (Sourced)
Published on Feb 12, 2025 08:47 pm IST

ASER 2023: 86.8% of youth are enrolled in an educational institution

The ASER 2023 report titled “Beyond Basics” focuses on the youth aged 14 to 18 years in rural India, an age group that was also the focus of the ASER 2017 report. (HT)
Published on Jan 17, 2024 07:12 pm IST

Patna plays host to international artists in G-20 cultural track exhibition

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Cheap rice, an installation by Subodh Gupta (The Bihar Museum Biennale)
Published on Aug 07, 2023 06:08 pm IST

Pratham wins Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for edu initiatives

Pratham began its work in slum areas by setting up community-based pre-schools and by offering remedial education to students who lagged behind in their classes.
Published on Nov 20, 2021 02:28 am IST

Bihar education department to promote students of classes 1 to 8 without exam

Bihar board gives grace marks to avoid compartment exam. (HT file)
Updated on Feb 19, 2021 08:22 pm IST

Economics Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Bihar connection

Esther Duflo, left, and Abhijit Banerjee, the winners of 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics, following a news conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Oct. 14, 2019.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:33 am 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

Learning in rural Maharashtra gets better, but still short of 2008

The ASER 2018 for Maharashtra has shown considerable improvement as far as the learning outcomes of students are considered.
Published on Jan 16, 2019 03:45 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

This picture book gives rare peek into ‘paw’some strays of Mumbai

Periappa dreams about his favourite foods idli and dosa.
Updated on Apr 12, 2018 01:27 am IST