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ASER Survey on Chhattisgarh (Rural)
Report on “Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) Chhattisgarh (Rural) 2021” was released recently. The report highlights the learning crisis created by covid-19 pandemic induced lockdowns, since March 2020. Highlights Report highlights that, proportion of primary school children who cannot recognize letters of the alphabet have increased double fold since 2018. Furthermore, fewer students can ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: Annual Status of Education Report • ASER report
ASER 2021 Report – Highlights
16th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021 (Rural) was published by Pratham foundation on November 17, 2021. Highlights ASER provides report on schooling status of children in the age group of 5-16 age across rural India including the ability to do basic reading & arithmetic tasks. This year, ASER followed a phone-based survey format, ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2021
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: ASER report • gross enrolment ratio
2021 Yidan Prize
India-based Dr Rukmini Banerji was awarded with the 2021 Yidan prize on September 28, 2021. Key Points Award was presented to her by Yidan Prize Foundation. Apart from her, US-based Professor Eric Hanushek was also conferred with the prestigious Yidan Prize 2021. Both have been awarded the Yidan Prize for recognition of their ground-breaking work ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2021
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: 2021 Yidan Prize • ASER report • Pratham Education Foundation • Yidan Prize for Education Development • Yidan prize Foundation
Annual Status of Education Report 2019
On January 14, 2020, the Non-Profit Organization Pratham released its annual report, Annual Status of Education Report, 2019. The report is based on the survey conducted in 26 districts that covers 36,000 children in the age group of 4 to 8 years. Key Findings of the report Number of girls enrolled in government schools is ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: ASER • ASER report • Early Childhood Care Education • girl education • RTE Act • School
ASER Report 2018
The Annual Status of Education, ASER report by the NGO Pratham which measures the learning outcomes has been released. The report was based on an annual household survey which covered 5.46 lakh children in 596 rural districts across the country. Findings of the ASER 2018 Survey The important findings from the ASER 2018 survey are: ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2019
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Annual Status of Education • ASER report • Learning Outcomes • National Education Policy • NGO Pratham • Quality of education • Right to Education Act
Parliament passes RTE amendment Bill
The Parliament has given its approval for the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2018. What was the amendment proposed? The features of the amendment proposed are: The amendment bill does away with the no-detention policy mentioned in the law. The amendment bill now leaves it to the states to decide ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2019
Category: Legal & Constitution Current Affairs
Topics: ASER report • CLAT • National Achievement Survey • NCERT • No-Detention Policy • RTE