Education in India

India, statistically, has one of the best school systems in the world. Their enrolment rates, according to UNICEF, are on average 98.5% and their government outlay in education is the third largest in the world just after the United States of America and China. However, due to a number of factors, India’s education is lacking in quality. This was shown in the international PISA tests in 2009, in which two of India’s states, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh, took part and came 72nd and 73rd respectively

those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India”. Max Muller has always seen India the greatest knowledge creators of the world. History of Indian Education is very rich. It was started from Takshila and Nalanda and had rich scholars like Chanakya, Panini, Shushrut, Charaka, Aryabhatta, Basa and Bhaskarachya etc. India from ancient times and by the heart has remained a rich

the others. The untouchables are more definite. In north India only a very small number, doing scavenging or unclean work is considered untouchables. Fa-Hein tells us that when he visited the persons who removed human faces were untouchables. In south India, the numbers are much larger. How they began and grew to such numbers it is difficult to say. Probably those who were engaged in occupations considered unclean were so treated later landless agricultural labours may have been added" (Sharma, Nehru

Education system in India dates back to the Indus Valley civilization which saw the birth of new culture. This period is referred as the Vedic age, as the Vedas were composed during this time. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata gives lot of information on the life of the people and the education system. We learn in the Vedas about the gurukul system which played an important role during that period. A child was sent to the gurukul at a tender age of 7 where he learnt different aspects of education

Abstract Higher Education in India – Issues and Challenges Higher Education in India is improving gradually after Independence. It is in the second place in the world after United States. Some institutions of India, such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), National Institute of Technology (NITs) and Jawaharlal Nehru University have been globally acclaimed for their standard of education. University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for

page Higher Education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. - John A. Hannah Education has always been and continues to be one of the most important needs of mankind. It helps man indoctrinate values and apply the technical know-how in real life situations. Of late, there has been an increasing trend towards privatisation of higher education in India. The Government of India cannot absolve

Girls education in India The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the advent of the human species, with or without schools, one keeps on taking education in some or the other way. It is one the basic necessities to be educated for human, as world out there is full of competition, where one needs certain amount of skills to survive and be a threat

EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA- HIGH SCHOOL In India, high school is a grade of education which includes Standards VII to X. Standards XI to XII called as Higher Secondary School or Senior Secondary School or Junior college. Some states refer to Standards IX and X as High School, while XI and XII are termed as Intermediate. Other states refer to VI, VII, VIII, IX and X (grades 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) as Secondary school and XI and XII (grades 11 and 12) as Senior Secondary School. Usually, students from ages

paid guru dakshina according to individual volition which could be land, animals, grains, clothes or money. Aims of Education 1. Inculcating Religion Preaching religion was the major function of literature and culture of ancient India. Religion was predominant in every sphere of life. So it may be said, the ancient India was built up in religions much more than in political, economic and social field. 2. Salvation The ultimate aim of human society of that age was the achievement

India is being considered as ‘Tiger Economy’ and emerging as a big power on the global map, but in the same country millions of Dalits (broken people) and Tribal (native people) are living in subhuman condition. One of the egregious examples is manual scavenging; according to Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) projection 1.3 million people in India are involved in manual scavenging work. This is unbelievable and unacceptable in any civilized society, but people are forced into manual scavenging