https://apero.thedataareclean.com/categories/education/ Recent content in education on cube Hugo -- gohugo.io en CC BY 4.0 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-03-15-aicte-heci/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-03-15-aicte-heci/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Established in 1945 to improve the quality of technical education in India, AICTE’s authority has expanded, often at the expense of the autonomy of engineering colleges AICTE’s reach is so thorough that engineering colleges have been restricted in much of their operations from curriculum design to interdisciplinary research https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-22-lead-schools/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-22-lead-schools/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary In the last two years, LEAD has expanded from 600 partner schools to nearly 5,000; it raised $100 million recently, becoming a unicorn in the process Teachers are the centre of its plans to digitise classrooms—by removing the management and lesson planning headache, LEAD lets them focus on teaching https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-08-coding-edtech/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-08-coding-edtech/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Coding education in India is in the midst of a boom with the addressable market is pegged at ~20 million students Along with growth, challenges like homogeneity of offerings, inaccessible products, and low quality teaching have plagued the industry The classroom size and the role of the instructor need needs to be reevaluated for coding education to expand https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-01-05-amazon-academy/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-01-05-amazon-academy/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Amazon is the latest edtech entrant in India, with its eye on the engineering and medical test prep market, and beyond The company is taking a no-frills approach to teaching and relying on data to organise, personalise, and present the content better https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2021-12-08-niti-byjus/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2021-12-08-niti-byjus/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary The $20 billion edtech giant Byju’s has set its sight on the public education system in India. It has a willing partner in NITI Aayog Byju’s wants to target students in India’s most developmentally challenged states; its products aren’t a great fit for the audience https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/noral/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/noral/ Background The Northern Alliance of Scotland is a regional improvement collaborative, spanning across and supporting eight local authorities and their associated school settings to improve education and reduce the poverty related attainment gap. Within these settings, children, young people and their families live across a diverse range of urban and rural settlements. The aim of this collaboration is to determine what data sources and analytical techniques best reflect the challenges of child poverty, and subsequently provide a means to assess the poverty related attainment gap as a result – which will further allow individual school settings, local authorities and other bodies to plan targeted interventions to reduce it. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-05-10-ed-definition/ Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-05-10-ed-definition/ Photo by Gautam Arora from Unsplash. COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact affecting a large number of children across states, class, caste, gender and region. In India, school closures have affected 320 million students and only 37.6 million children across 16 states were able to continue education through various initiatives such as online classrooms and radio programmes etc. 1 A survey by Save the Children during the pandemic reported the discontinuation of children’s education in 62% of the surveyed households with 67% in rural and 55% in urban areas, respectively. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/girl-ed/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/girl-ed/ Background CivicDataLab partnered with HAQ: Centre for Child Rights (HAQ-CRC) and Malala Fund on a project to strengthen financial accountability towards girl education in Uttar Pradesh. The project aims at monitoring the financing of education related scheme with a special focus on promoting girl education in the state. This project will serve as a means to measure the progress towards SDG Goal 4 & 6 and will also strengthen accountability measures in public financing of education by creating a knowledge pool which will further help policy making to promote girl education. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-02-18-budget-reco-ed/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-02-18-budget-reco-ed/ Photo by marif shaik from Unsplash. COVID-19 and Education The COVID-19 pandemic changed the education landscape of India overnight. Educational institutes were compelled to adopt various digital learning alternatives to sustain timely growth of children. In a country where only 4.4% of rural and 23.4% of urban households own computers, the challenge becomes even bigger. Moreover, this gap gets wider with only 42% of urban households having a computer with an internet connection, and the same being available to only 14. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2020-12-23-girl-ed/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2020-12-23-girl-ed/ Girl Education and India Although education is a fundamental right in India, according to Census 2011, 1 in 4 children of school going age is out of school in our country and 99 million children in total have dropped out of school in the last 10 years. Out of every 100 children, only 32 children finish their school education age-appropriately (DISE 2014–15). The Govt. has achieved universal enrollment in primary school but dropout rate is 4% in elementary school, rising to 17% in secondary school.