Overton Fellow Posts
2012-02-28 18:28
Infrastructure and Quality Education
Towards the end of this chapter we should recall the connection of infrastructure and (the quality of) education. Because there is no consensus on what quality education really is and how it should or could be measured, the NGO “Save the Children” launched a position paper on this matter in May 2011. (Save the Children 2011) According to this paper quality education consists of four dimensions: a physical, social, teaching and learning and a political dimension. Comparing the situation of primary schools in Kalamgadia GP to the mentioned p...
2012-02-28 18:03
Infrastructural Facilities in Schools
This chapter analyses the current situation of the most important infrastructural facilities in the field area, namely school buildings, including the condition of the kitchens, quality and access to drinking water facilities, toilet facilities and playground and sports material.
Accessibility of Schools
As described in chapter 3 the surveyed area can be described as very backward, especially in matters of infrastructural facilities. This fact is very obvious when visiting the primary schools in the field and affects the quality of education directly and i...
2012-02-28 12:26
KORAPUT: The decision of the CBSE to conduct the annual examination of Class X and XII for the 2011-12 academic session at Koraput has upset parents and guardians of students studying in schools at Jeypore. The CBSE has selected Kendriya Vidyalaya, Koraput, andJawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya, Landiguda, as centres for examination that will be from March 1 to 26.
Aggrieved parents have submitted a memorandum to the regional officer of the CBSE at Bhubaneswar demanding to change the examination centre to any school at Jeypore for the benefit of students. "Around 400 students of Jeypor...
2012-02-28 12:25
KORAPUT: The decision of the CBSE to conduct the annual examination of Class X and XII for the 2011-12 academic session at Koraput has upset parents and guardians of students studying in schools at Jeypore. The CBSE has selected Kendriya Vidyalaya, Koraput, andJawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya, Landiguda, as centres for examination that will be from March 1 to 26.
Aggrieved parents have submitted a memorandum to the regional officer of the CBSE at Bhubaneswar demanding to change the examination centre to any school at Jeypore for the benefit of students. "Around 400 students of Jeypor...
2012-02-28 09:58
A Study on Malnutrition among Primary School Children in Kalamgadia Gram Panchayat, Mayurbhanj District, Odisha,Part-3
The Issue of “Child Labour”
The major reason for poor attendance in the schools, especially among older children, was described in the previous chapter and can be summarised in three main points: children are responsible for household chores (including the care for younger siblings), rearing cattle and goats or working on the (rice) fields. Often these issues are named child labour which needs to be fought, especially in the opinion of international NGOs. I...
2012-02-27 23:03
Attendance Rates
However, the very positive fact of growing enrolment rates is shadowed by low attendance rates in schools. The average attendance in primary schools during the field visits in August 2011 was only as high as 43 % and ranged from 27 % in UGME Kalamgadia to 56 % in Suranga Malliposi. The main reason for this specifically low attendance can certainly be explained by the monsoon season to some extent, which was confirmed by teachers in several interviews. Sentences like “normally the attendance is higher” were expressed in many interviews. As all households in th...
2012-02-27 22:28
Silent Hunger
A Study on Malnutrition among Primary School Children in Kalamgadia Gram Panchayat, Mayurbhanj District, State of Odisha, India
Written by Anil Shah
Prepared for SIKSHASANDHAN
Supported by: WELTHUNGERHILFE
Gender Inequality
High gender inequality, on several levels, remains a reality of Indian society and is a violation of the rightto equality. As the 2011 Census shows, female literacy in India (65.46 %) is still much below male literacy(82.14 %), varying significantly in some states (e.g. Bihar)Though there is quite some improvement in the total literacy rates amo...
2012-02-27 17:17
School and Mass Education
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There is no new scheme in the current budget for school and mass education department.
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Though the budget of the school and mass education department has increased by 20.67 percent to Rs. 6537.40 Cr but as a percentage of GSDP, the education budget is only 2.51 percent which was 2.53 percent in 2011-12(RE).
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The quantum increase in department budget is only due to the transfer of the Mid-day meal scheme fro...
2012-02-23 10:21
I was looking at the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and CBSE maths curriculum for class 10, in the context of the RTE Act and basic education for underprivileged children.
What are these children ever likely to do in their lives with irrational numbers, surds, quadratic equations, polynomials, sin θ, etc.? This is true for most, if not all, of the arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, coordinate geometry etc. covered in this curriculum. Most of us who are graduates and post-graduates and have decent jobs have not required much of the maths we had to learn in sc...
2012-02-19 02:21
Status of Tribal situation in Orissa
• There are 62 tribal groups in Orissa.
• They constitute 23% of the total state population
• 32 tribes speak in their own languages
• Rest of the tribal has partially or totally assimilated in to Oriya language.
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