Poor Children's Education
Education for Poor Children
Children are the future of a country. For an emerging and developing nation like India, development of children holds the key to the progress of the nation itself.
Education for Children is the key whether we are addressing healthcare, poverty, population control, unemployment or human rights issues.
The educational initiatives for children include Crèche [0-3 yrs], Pre-school [3-6 yrs], Non Formal Education [6-14 yrs non-school going], Remedial Education [6-14 yrs school going], Bridge Course [14-18 yrs drop-outs], Functional Literacy [18-45 yrs women] and Family Life Education for adolescent girls.
'Unequal start'
"The gap in educational chances comes full circle when disadvantaged children fail to get qualifications, face poor job prospects as adults and then are unable to give their own children a good start in life," it says.
Report author Donald Hirsch said it was "amazing" the way the gap in achievement got wider and wider as children got older.
"Our ambition for the education system is that it compensates for an unequal start.
"In primary education in particular, you might hope that the education gap would start to narrow."
But the report claims that far from reducing the differences between children from different social backgrounds, the education system allows it to grow.
'Worse prospects'
A particularly big jump occurs in the first three years of secondary school, according to research by the Department for Children, Schools and Families quoted in the report.
And by the time they are doing GCSEs, poor children are more than one and a half grades behind their peers.
The report concludes with a call for poverty to be tackled alongside the education gap.
"Unless both are done simultaneously, children growing up with unequal chances will become the next generation of parents without the resources to give their own children a good chance - and this "chicken and egg" cycle will continue."
The campaign wants the government to invest £4bn to halve child poverty by 2010.
The government says it is working to reduce child poverty and increase opportunities for children from poor backgrounds.
Schools minister Andrew Adonis said: "We know that education is an effective route out of poverty. Helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds - both in the classroom and beyond the curriculum - is one of our key objectives.
"Just like the Joseph Rowntree reports last week, this report chimes with many of the things we are already doing.
"For example, we announced in June that by 2010-11 we will spend over £1 billion more on narrowing the attainment gap through schemes across a range of ages - such as Sure Start Children Centres, extended schools, one to one tuition and personalistion."
Basic Education
Teacher Training
Objectives
The aim of this article is to improve access and quality of basic education by:
expanding primary and lower secondary school facilities and teacher training facilities;
providing scholarships for poor children throughout lower secondary school;
training teaching staff in child-centred teaching and learning methodology and life-skills (health, environment, gender, farming and bicycle repair);
and supporting access to primary teacher training while building up educational management capabilities at different levels.
The project gives priority to poor and vulnerable areas and pays attention to gender issues.
Children are the future of a country. For an emerging and developing nation like India, development of children holds the key to the progress of the nation itself.
Education for Children is the key whether we are addressing healthcare, poverty, population control, unemployment or human rights issues.
The educational initiatives for children include Crèche [0-3 yrs], Pre-school [3-6 yrs], Non Formal Education [6-14 yrs non-school going], Remedial Education [6-14 yrs school going], Bridge Course [14-18 yrs drop-outs], Functional Literacy [18-45 yrs women] and Family Life Education for adolescent girls.
'Unequal start'
"The gap in educational chances comes full circle when disadvantaged children fail to get qualifications, face poor job prospects as adults and then are unable to give their own children a good start in life," it says.
Report author Donald Hirsch said it was "amazing" the way the gap in achievement got wider and wider as children got older.
"Our ambition for the education system is that it compensates for an unequal start.
"In primary education in particular, you might hope that the education gap would start to narrow."
But the report claims that far from reducing the differences between children from different social backgrounds, the education system allows it to grow.
'Worse prospects'
A particularly big jump occurs in the first three years of secondary school, according to research by the Department for Children, Schools and Families quoted in the report.
And by the time they are doing GCSEs, poor children are more than one and a half grades behind their peers.
The report concludes with a call for poverty to be tackled alongside the education gap.
"Unless both are done simultaneously, children growing up with unequal chances will become the next generation of parents without the resources to give their own children a good chance - and this "chicken and egg" cycle will continue."
The campaign wants the government to invest £4bn to halve child poverty by 2010.
The government says it is working to reduce child poverty and increase opportunities for children from poor backgrounds.
Schools minister Andrew Adonis said: "We know that education is an effective route out of poverty. Helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds - both in the classroom and beyond the curriculum - is one of our key objectives.
"Just like the Joseph Rowntree reports last week, this report chimes with many of the things we are already doing.
"For example, we announced in June that by 2010-11 we will spend over £1 billion more on narrowing the attainment gap through schemes across a range of ages - such as Sure Start Children Centres, extended schools, one to one tuition and personalistion."
Basic Education
Teacher Training
Objectives
The aim of this article is to improve access and quality of basic education by:
expanding primary and lower secondary school facilities and teacher training facilities;
providing scholarships for poor children throughout lower secondary school;
training teaching staff in child-centred teaching and learning methodology and life-skills (health, environment, gender, farming and bicycle repair);
and supporting access to primary teacher training while building up educational management capabilities at different levels.
The project gives priority to poor and vulnerable areas and pays attention to gender issues.
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