Primary School

India's great education challenge: Low attendance, high rate of dropouts plague rural schools

Around 3.5% of children between the ages of 11 and 14 years, and 13.5% between the ages of 15 and 16 years were dropouts, while over 25% of children in grades I to VIII were absent from school on the day a team visited the school. These are the findings of the 2016 Annual States of Education Report (ASER) survey, a household survey of schooling and learning levels in rural India. The survey included over 560,000 children between three and 16 years, in 589 districts of India.

60 students fall ill after taking deworming tablets in East Midnapore dist

At least 60 students of a state-run primary school in East Midnapore district were taken ill after they were administered deworming tablets

Mizoram primary school teacher sexually abuses 32 students, arrested

A government school teacher was arrested in Mizoram on charges of raping and sexually abusing 32 students, police said on Friday.

‘Schoolification’ of children under six is harmful, Centre tells Delhi High Court

In a development that should concern private schools that are running nursery classes as part of regular school, the Centre has told the Delhi High Court that it is against the ‘schoolification’ of children under six years

133 primary schools in Odisha may close

Plagued by abysmally low student strength and steady rate of dropout, 133 government-run primary schools are facing the threat of closure in Kendrapara district of Odisha