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The percentage of children in classes 1 to 8 taking paid private tuition in UP increased from 15.9% in 2018 to 23.7% in 2022. UP: Survey Shows High Dropout Rates Among Girls, Rising Popularity of Private Tuition Lucknow: There has been an over 7.9% increase in the proportion of school-going children taking paid tuition classes in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, in comparison to pre-Covid-19 levels, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 launched on Wednesday. According to the ASER, the overall enrollment to private tuition across the state has increased at all levels despite the prolonged closure of schools. The nationwide survey was resumed after a gap of four years. However, the percentage of children in classes 1 to 8 in Uttar Pradesh taking paid private tuition increased from 15.9% in 2018 to 23.7% in 2022. Nationally, the figure stood at 30.5%. In UP, the survey was conducted in 2,096 villages across 70 districts and included 91,158 children in the age group of 3–16...

The study showed that Indian women who received five years of schooling during the 1960s exhibited better learning outcomes than those born in the 1990s. Representational image. Delhi: Education quality has deteriorated in 56 of 87 developing countries since the 1960s, including India, according to a 2022 working paper by researchers at the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank based in Washington DC, This decades-long decline has marked a profound concern for international organisations such as the World Bank and UNESCO, which termed it a “learning crisis” in these regions. Basic literacy and numeracy skills have become increasingly elusive for students. For instance, Indian students, when assessed on international learning standards, score on average at about the 5th percentile (bottom 5%) compared to their counterparts in advanced economies, the study noted. This is an indication of the challenges plaguing India’s education system. One striking finding was that women in Indi...