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19/01/23 08:42 AM IST

More students going to government schools; Taking private tuition: ASER Report

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  • In India, the enrollment of students in government schools have increased significantly in the past few years, reported by the latest edition of Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2022.
Major Highlights
  • There has been an improvement in enrollment levels of children in the age bracket of 6 to 14 years have gone from 96.6% in 2010 to 96.7% in 2014 and 97.2% in 2018 to 98.4% in 2022.
  • An increase of 7.3% points in government school enrollment in the period 2018 to 2022. 
  • Between 2018 and 2022, in all states, there is an increase in the proportion of children who attend tuition classes.
  • The state with the highest percentage of students going for tuition is Bihar (71.7%), followed by Manipur (53.4%) and Jharkhand.
  • The exceptions are Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Tripura.
Enrollment in Govt Schools
  • The proportion of children enrolled in government schools has increased since 2018.
  • There is an increase of 7.3% points in government school enrollment in the period 2018 to 2022.
  • However, in 2022, percentage of girls (15 to 16 years old) not enrolled in schools continued to decline.
  • In 2022, the percentage was 7.9 per cent.
  • The state with the highest percentage of girls in the age bracket of 15 to 16 years old not going to school was Madhya Pradesh (17.0), followed by Uttar Pradesh (15.0) and Chhattisgarh (11.1).
Reading Ability
  • As per the ASER survey 2022, the states like Haryana (from 46.4% to 31.5%), Kerala (from 52.1% in 2018 to 38.7% in 2022), Himachal Pradesh (from 47.7% to 28.4%) shows a drop of more than 10% points in reading ability of Class 3 children.
  • Andhra Pradesh (from 22.6% to 10.3%) and Telangana (from 18.1% to 5.2%) also recorded large drops in the reading ability of Class 3 children.
  • The report recorded a similar fall in reading levels among class 5 children.
Arithmetic Level
  • The Children's basic arithmetic levels have also declined compared to 2018.
  • The ASER arithmetic test assesses whether a child can recognise numbers from 1 to 9, recognise numbers from 11 to 99, do a 2-digit numerical subtraction problem with borrowing, or correctly solve a numerical division problem (3 digit by 1 digit).
  • The all-India figure for children in class 3 who can at least do subtraction dropped from 28.2 per cent in 2018 to 25.9 per cent in 2022.
  • The report noted that the performance of class 8 students in basic arithmetic is more varied.
  • Nationally, the proportion of children who can do division has increased slightly, from 44.1 per cent in 2018 to 44.7 per cent in 2022.
ASER Report
  • ASER is an annual survey conducted by the education non-profit Pratham in rural areas of India.
  • The survey was last conducted at this large scale in 2018.
  • The ASER 2022 survey was conducted in 17,002 government schools in 19,060 villages across 616 districts. 
  • The first ASER survey was conducted in 2005 and repeated for 10 years.
  • ASER 2022 is the first field-based “basic” nationwide ASER after a gap of four years.
Source- Indian Express

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