{"id":28437,"date":"2018-10-24T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28437"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:54:15","slug":"the-good-and-the-bad-in-bengals-primary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-good-and-the-bad-in-bengals-primary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The good and the bad in Bengal\u2019s primary education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/the-good-and-the-bad-in-bengals-primary-education\/article24375055.ece\">The good and the bad in Bengal\u2019s primary education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A recent report titled \u201c<em>Primary Education in West Bengal: The Scope for Change<\/em>\u201d by Pratichi Institute highlights the achievements and failures of primary education in West Bengal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Major Highlights of the Report<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><u>Success<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to primary education \u201chas increased substantially\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pupil-teacher ratio has improved dramatically to 23:1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u>Issues:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Uneven distribution of resources: <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Great variations in pupil-teacher ratio: varies from 14:1 to 44:1. This is primarily due to administrative failure to rationalize the distribution of teachers across government schools.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in single teacher schools- 3.3% in 2014-15 to 4% in 2015-16<\/li>\n<li>Lack of government-run-primary school in many villages (847)<\/li>\n<li>Deficit allocation of fund for midday meals<\/li>\n<li>Poor academic planning<\/li>\n<li>Increasing number of private tuitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good and the bad in Bengal\u2019s primary education News: A recent report titled \u201cPrimary Education in West Bengal: The Scope for Change\u201d by Pratichi Institute highlights the achievements and failures of primary education in West Bengal Important Facts: Major Highlights of the Report Success Access to primary education \u201chas increased substantially\u201d Pupil-teacher ratio has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-good-and-the-bad-in-bengals-primary-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The good and the bad in Bengal\u2019s primary education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704737244},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}