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Unit 8: Quality of Education: Concept, Parameters, Status and Prospects with Focus on Objectives....

Tremendous Growth since Independence, but still: Notes
The gross enrolment ratio
Classes (I-V) (6-11 years) 109.4%
Classes (VI-VIII) (11-14 years) 71.15%
Classes (I-VIII) (6-14 years) 94.92%
Classes (IX-X) (14-16 years) 52.26%
Classes (XI-XII) (16-18 years) 28.54%
Higher Education (18-24 yrs) 11.61 %
The drop out rate
Classes (I-V) (6-11 years) 25.47 %
Classes (I-VIII) (6-14 years) 48.71 %
Classes (I-X) (6-16 years) 61.59 %
These high drop out rates from both primary and secondary school, combined with low
enrolment rates at the higher levels deprive tens of millions of children of their full rights as
citizens.
• Out of approx. 211 million children in the (6-14 yrs) age group - 84.91 % are enrolled in
schools.
• More than 35 million children in the (6-14) age group are out of school
• Net primary school enrolment/attendance is only 77%
• By year 2016 there will be approx. 500 million people with less than five yrs of schooling
• Another 300 million that will not have completed high school. Two third of the population
will lack minimum level of education
• Children put in an average of 21 hours of labour per week, at the cost of education
• 60 million children are thought to be child labourers
• 35% of our population are still illiterate
8.4.2 Vocational training and self-employment avenus
• Every year 5.5 million students pass out of Class X, of which 3.3 million go to Class XI,
leaving 2.2 million out of the education stream.
• Those who drop out after Class VIII are approx. 20-21 million.
• Urgent attention needed for this 21 million-target group.
• Available formal training capacity of the country - only 2.3 million students.
• This leaves a gap of 18.7 million. The ITI system needs to be revamped to fill up this gap.
• Among persons of age 15 years and above:
(i) Only 2 % had any type of technical degrees/ diplomas/ certificates.
(i) The proportion was only 1% in the rural areas and 5 % in the urban.
• Only 40 % of the 55,000 instructors have undergone a full instructor-training course”
(Urgent need to look into training of trainers) (Planning Commission).
• About 95% of the world youth (15 - 35 yrs) age learn any type of vocation / skill / trade,
with a choice of 3000 vocational streams.
• In India we have identified only about 170 trades and only 2-3% of the youth (15-29 yrs)
goes in for formal vocational training.
• The proportion of persons (15-29 yrs) who received formal vocational training was the
highest among the unemployed.
(i) 3 % for the employed
(ii) 11% for the unemployed, and

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