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Report: Enrolment rate in pvt schools dwindling

CHANDIGARH: The Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2018, released today, showed that enrolment in private schools of Punjab had slowed down during the recent times.

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Sanjeev Singh Bariana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 15

The Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2018, released today, showed that enrolment in private schools of Punjab had slowed down during the recent times.

The data is relevant in the context of a massive shift witnessed from government schools to private schools 2010 onwards. Against figures as high as 10 per cent at a point of time, the figures have dropped to only 0.5 per cent now.

Facilitated by NGOPratham, the survey is carried out by a local organisation in each district. In Punjab, partners are largely colleges and universities.

At least 30 villages are sampled in each rural district. In each village, 20 randomly selected households are visited. Children aged 3 to 16 are surveyed. In Punjab, 11,865 households of 596 villages were surveyed in the state. A total of 12,799 children were surveyed by 20 partner organisations.

The figures showed that there had been about five per cent increase in school attendance during the last two years. The data showed that in the age group of 6-14 years, only one per cent children were not attending school in Punjab.

Education Minister OP Soni told The Tribune, “The comparative figures at the national level showed that we have performed very good. There has been nearly six per cent decrease in the number of children in the age group of 15-16 not registered in schools since 2006. More importantly, the gender gap in school enrolment is very thin.”

Reading levels of children in Class III and V were much higher than the national figures. However, the state showed a dip in reading skills of children in Class VIII. Punjab also figures higher, at the national level, in mathematics. Like for Class III, the subject proficiency was 49 per cent in Punjab and only 28 at the national level. It was 76 per cent for Class V in Punjab and 52 per cent at the national level.

In Punjab, in all age groups girls are performing better than boys in reading and arithmetic. In overall figures, Punjab is ranked higher than the national average in different categories.

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