Enrolments in government schools shoots up

Hyderabad: The State government’s initiatives including establishing several residential schools with all amenities and providing free quality education with well-qualified teachers, are reaping good results. This is evident from the number of enrolments in the government schools which went north between 2018 and 2021. According to the Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2021 released […]

Hyderabad: The State government’s initiatives including establishing several residential schools with all amenities and providing free quality education with well-qualified teachers, are reaping good results. This is evident from the number of enrolments in the government schools which went north between 2018 and 2021.

According to the Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2021 released on Wednesday, the number of children aged between 6-14 years enrolling in government schools in the State has shot up by 3.6 per cent from 56.4 per cent in 2018 to 60 per cent in 2021.

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The increase in enrolments was seen among both girls and boys. While 52.6 per cent of boys and 60.2 per cent of girls were admitted to the government schools in 2018, the enrolments rose to 57.6 per cent of boys and 62.9 per cent of girls this year.

In fact, as per the details available with the School Education department, till the first week of October this year, 2.2 lakh students from private schools have joined Classes I to X in the government, local body, Model Schools, urban residential schools and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) across the State this academic year,

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a citizen-led household survey that provides nationally representative estimates of children’s schooling status and their foundational reading and arithmetic skills. The survey is facilitated by the NGO Pratham. The survey covered 25 States and three UTs, 581 districts, 17,184 villages, 76,706 households, 75,234 children (aged 5-16 years) and 7,299 schools across the country.

With schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and classes shifting to digital/online, the availability of smartphones in the households of the enrolled children in the State, as per the survey, has gone up from 45.8 per cent in 2018 to 79.3 per cent this year. While 42.2 per cent of the children could access smartphones for their studies all the time, 33.9 per cent could use the smartphone for some time.

As the classes went digital/online, 60.7 per cent of the enrolled children in both government and private schools in the State could receive help from their family members while studying at home. The survey has also revealed that 95.6 per cent of the enrolled children in the government schools have textbooks for the current grade, while it was at 87.6 per cent in the private schools.

This apart, the percentage of enrolled children taking tuition in the State has increased from 5.9 per cent in 2018 to 9.6 per cent this year, while the national average was 39.2 per cent.

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