UNESCO report on Education
1)
India has made remarkable strides towards ensuring education for
all, a new global monitoring report shows. While access is now close to
universal, the quality of education remains a major challenge.
2)
In April 2000, the governments of 164 countries adopted the Dakar Framework to deliver “Education
for All” commitments
by 2015.
Ø UNESCO published the
“Education for All” Global Monitoring Report to evaluate the progress of
countries on these goals.
3)
India's performance :
Ø India is likely to reach
the first goal of 80 per cent enrolment in pre-primary education by 2015.
Ø It has already reached
the second goal of universal primary enrolment
Ø It will fall just short of universal youth
literacy by 2015
Ø The one measurable goal
India will not reach is reducing its adult illiteracy rate by half (it has
reduced it by 26 per cent)
Ø The country’s major success
has been in reaching gender parity for primary and lower secondary enrolment.
4)
Only 25 per cent of the countries have reduced by half their
levels of adult illiteracy, and women continue to make up two-thirds of the
illiterate.
5)
However,
the efficiency of public spending in India comes in for
criticism, as does the expansion of contract teaching jobs in public schools.
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