{"id":53015,"date":"2019-10-12T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=53015"},"modified":"2019-10-12T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:01:55","slug":"answered-discuss-various-challenges-in-increasing-access-to-education-to-students-from-deprived-backgrounds-how-these-challenges-can-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-discuss-various-challenges-in-increasing-access-to-education-to-students-from-deprived-backgrounds-how-these-challenges-can-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Discuss various challenges in increasing access to education to students from deprived backgrounds? How these challenges can be removed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Various challenges in increasing access to education. Reforms needed.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Access to education is a major bottleneck in Indian education. Currently there is a situation of relatively lower enrolment rates in upper primary and secondary education. Ensuring mobility of students from elementary to primary to secondary to tertiary education is a key challenge. Relatively slower progress in reducing the number of illiterates is also a huge challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various challenges in increasing access to education:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. A lack of funding for education: <\/strong>Developing countries can\u2019t rely\nsolely on their own financing for education, there\u2019s also a need for more\nforeign aid. Lack of funds lead to inaccessibility of education due to poor\nschools or lack of teachers.<\/li>
  2. Having no teacher, or having an\nuntrained teacher: <\/strong>Teacher\neffectiveness has been found to be the most important predictor of student\nlearning. There aren’t enough teachers to achieve universal primary or\nsecondary education, and many of the teachers that are currently working are\nuntrained. As a result, children aren\u2019t receiving a proper education.  <\/li>
  3. Poor Infrastructure: <\/strong>A child cannot learn without the\nright environment. Children in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are often\nsqueezed into overcrowded classrooms, classrooms that are falling apart, or are\nlearning outside. They also lack textbooks, school supplies, and other tools\nthey need to excel. It\u2019s not just a lack of classrooms that\u2019s the problem, but\nalso all the basic facilities you would expect a school to have \u2014 like running\nwater and toilets. When girls don\u2019t have access to safe toilets, they are often\nharassed or attacked when looking for a private place to go. <\/li>
  4. The exclusion of children with\ndisabilities: <\/strong>Despite\nthe fact that education is a universal human right, Many disables are being\ndenied access to school. Students with disabilities have lower attendance rates\nand are more likely to be out of school or leave school before completing\nprimary education. They are suspended or expelled at a rate more than double\nthe rate of their non-special education peers.<\/li>
  5. Distance from home to school: <\/strong>For many children around the world,\na walk to school of up to three hours in each direction is not uncommon. This\nis just too much for many children, particularly children living with a\ndisability, those suffering from malnutrition or illness, or those who are\nrequired to work around the household. Many children, especially girls, are\nalso vulnerable to violence on their long and hazardous journeys to and from\nschool.<\/li>
  6. The expense of education: <\/strong>Many of the poorest families, school\nremains too expensive and children are forced to stay at home doing chores or\nwork themselves. Families remain locked in a cycle of poverty that goes on for\ngenerations. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Reforms needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Appropriate regulatory and monitoring\nrules and mechanisms should be designed for private pre-schools.<\/li>
    2. Curricular reforms should be carried\nout to meet the emerging aspirations and align to national goals of social\ncohesion, religious amity and national integration.<\/li>
    3. Each State should undertake a\ndetailed exercise of school mapping to identify schools with low enrolment and\ninadequate infrastructure.<\/li>
    4. Minimum standards for provision of\nfacilities and student outcomes across all levels in school education should be\nlaid down.<\/li>
    5. Framework and guidelines for\nensuring school safety and security of children should be developed.<\/li>
    6. The government should should steps\nfor reaching the long pending goal of raising the investment in education\nsector to at least 6% of GDP as a priority<\/li>
    7. Instead of setting up new\ninstitutions, which require huge investments, priority of the Government should\nbe to expand the capacity of existing institutions.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      India currently has the highest number of non literates in the world. Research highlights the importance of early childhood education. Participation in pre-school education remains low in the country. Expanding access to early childhood education and provide equal opportunity to all children to prepare them for formal education should be a priority task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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