According to UNESCO’s new Global Education Monitoring Report 2022, inadequate provision and quality of public education, combined with parental aspirations, have driven the growth of private education in India, as it requires greater attention to implementation. of regulations that cover equity and quality in all schools so that no children are left behind.
The report states: “Only 46% of adults agreed that the primary responsibility for providing school education rested with the government, the lowest of the 35 middle and high income countries.” Furthermore, in India there is a massive increase in private tutoring rates with 61% of secondary school students claiming to have attended tutoring due to the poor quality of the school.
Noting that non-state actors are significantly involved in every aspect of education systems in South Asia, the report states that around one third of students in India and Pakistan and one quarter in Nepal attend private schools that do not receive state assistance. Over 90% of teacher education institutions in India are funded by taxes alone.
Citing that in 2020 there were some 29,600 unrecognized schools educating 3.8 million students, the report said that “this could be an underestimate given the differences in the quality of state-level record keeping. In India, it is estimated that 4,139 unrecognized madrasas educate over 500,000 students ”.
Noting that while regulations are in place against teachers providing tutoring to their students, no license or registration is currently required to start a private tutoring business.
“A survey found that 73% of parents in India chose private schools because public schools did not meet quality standards, 12% because they offered an average English education and 10% because public schools did not meet the quality standards. were available “.
A preference analysis of 4,400 parents from low-income families in eight cities in India found that over 86% of children were enrolled in a private economic school or expected to move to a class I. selection criteria included English-average education, schools’ ability to provide classes beyond kindergarten, proximity to home, and quality of education such as the school’s reputation. The report warns that expanding access to education through non-state provision is unfair. Furthermore, 67,000 of the 97,000 schools established since 2014 have been private and without aid.
According to the report, approximately 4,139 were not recognized madrassas educate over 5.00,000 students across India.
