Education Portal for Students in India

Overview

Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income, and is the most important factor to ensure equity and inclusion For individuals, education promotes employment, earnings, health, and poverty reduction.

1. Globally, there is a,
2. For societies, it drives long-term economic growth, spurs innovation, strengthens institutions, and fosters social cohesion.
3. Developing countries have made tremendous progress in getting children into the classroom and more children worldwide are now in school.
4. But learning is not guaranteed, as the (WDR) stressed.

Making smart and effective investments in people’s education is critical for developing the human capital that will end extreme poverty. At the core of this strategy is the need to tackle the learning crisis, put an end to, and help youth acquire the advanced cognitive, socioemotional, technical and digital skills they need to succeed in today’s world.

• However, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of young children, students, and youth.
• The disruption of societies and economies caused by the pandemic has aggravated the already existing global education crisis and impacting education in unprecedented ways.
• Among its many dramatic disruptions, the pandemic has led to the worst crisis in education of the last century.

Globally, between February 2020 and February 2022, education systems were fully closed for in-person learning for, In South Asia and Latin America & the Caribbean, closures lasted 273 and 225 days, respectively. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, this global learning crisis was stark.

The, created by the World Bank and UNESCO Institute of Statistics and launched in 2019, gives a simple but sobering measure of the magnitude of this learning crisis: the proportion of 10-year-old children that are unable to read and understand a short age-appropriate text. In low- and middle-income countries, the share of children living in – already 57% before the pandemic – could potentially reach given the long school closures and the wide digital divide that hindered the effectiveness of remote learning during school closures, putting the targets in jeopardy.

School children have lost an estimated – and counting – of in-person instruction since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Children and youth in most countries have suffered major learning losses during the pandemic. Rigorous empirical evidence from various countries, including low-, middle-, and high-income contexts across regions, reveals very steep losses.

Each month of school closures led to a full month of lost learning, reflecting the limited effectiveness (on average) of remote learning. The staggering effects of school closures reach beyond learning. This generation of children could lose a combined total of in present value or the equivalent of 17% of today’s global GDP – a sharp rise from the 2021 estimate of a US$17 trillion loss.

COVID-19 created an inequality catastrophe. Almost all countries provided some form of remote education during school closures, but there was high inequality in access and uptake between and within countries. Children from disadvantaged households were less likely to benefit from remote learning than their peers, often due to a lack of electricity, connectivity, devices, and caregiver support.

• Girls, students with disabilities, and the youngest children also faced significant barriers to engaging in remote learning.
• Overall, at least a of the world’s schoolchildren – 463 million globally – were unable to access remote learning during school closures.
• Additionally, children’s mental health has been negatively affected, while risks of violence, child marriage and child labor are also increasing.

The situation is more dire for girls, who are more vulnerable to violence, child marriage, and becoming pregnant. Vulnerable groups such as children with disabilities, ethnic minorities, refugees, and displaced populations are also less likely to return to school post-crisis.

School disruptions particularly affected the youngest children. Early childhood education was closed the longest in many countries, with limited or no support for remote learning. In addition to learning losses, schooling disruptions have also exacerbated disparities in nutrition, health and stimulation, and access to essential social protection and psychosocial services.

Millions more children have been put at risk of being pushed into child labor, early marriage, and of leaving school altogether. Adding to these challenges is the negative impact of the unprecedented global economic contraction on family incomes, which increases the risk of school dropouts, and results in the contraction of government budgets and strains on public education spending.

Youth have also suffered a loss in human capital in terms of both skills and jobs. In many countries, these declines in youth employment were more than twice as large as the declines in adult employment. As a result, this generation of students, and especially the more disadvantaged, may never achieve their full education and earnings potential.

Action is urgently needed now – business as usual will not suffice to heal the scars of the pandemic and will not accelerate progress enough to meet the ambitions of SDG 4. We are urging governments to implement ambitious and aggressive Learning Recovery Programs to get children back to school, recover lost learning, and accelerate progress by building better, more equitable and resilient education systems.

Last Updated: Oct 11, 2022 The World Bank’s global education strategy is focused on ensuring learning happens – for everyone, everywhere. Our vision is to ensure that everyone can achieve her or his full potential with access to a quality education and lifelong learning. We envision a world in which all countries prepare all their children and youth to succeed as citizens and have the tools to participate in their country’s development.

By 2030, our target is to halve – the share of 10-year-old children around the world who cannot read and understand a simple text. We are working toward the target by helping countries build foundational skills like literacy, numeracy, and socioemotional skills – the building blocks for all other learning.

1. Throughout all education levels – from early childhood to tertiary education and beyond – we help children and youth acquire the skills they need to thrive in school, the labor market and throughout their lives.
2. We work directly with governments, providing technical assistance, loans, and grants.
3. We help countries share and apply innovative solutions to education challenges, focusing on systemic reform throughout the education cycle – from early childhood through tertiary education and lifelong learning.

We do this by generating and disseminating evidence, ensuring alignment with policymaking processes, and bridging the gap between research and practice. The World Bank is the largest external financier of education in the developing world. The Education Global Practice has a portfolio of 178 projects providing a total financing of US$23.6 billion.

In the last three fiscal years (FY 20-22), the World Bank’s new commitments averaged almost US$5 billion per year in projects designed to improve learning and provide children and youth with the education they need to succeed. Our current portfolio of education projects totals US$23.6 billion including IBRD, IDA and Recipient-Executed Trust Funds.

IDA operations comprise about 60% of the education portfolio. This latest fiscal year, the World Bank also continued to be the largest implementing agency of Global Partnership for Education (GPE) grants to low-income countries. In addition to its portfolio, The World Bank currently manages 55% of GPE’s total grant portfolio (US$1.98 billion of US$3.60 billion in active grants).

World Bank-supported projects in education are currently reaching at least 432 million students and 18 million teachers – one-third of the student population and nearly a quarter of the teacher workforce in current client countries. Strategic Approach to Education Our is that learning should happen with joy, purpose, and rigor for everyone, everywhere.

This vision should guide today’s investments and policy reforms so that countries can lay the foundations for effective, equitable, and resilient education systems. To guide our policy advisory and operational support to countries, we focus on policy actions that are needed to accelerate learning and that characterize the way many successful systems operate.

1. Learners are prepared and motivated to learn;
2. Teachers at all levels are effective and valued;
3. Classrooms are equipped for learning;
4. Schools are safe and inclusive spaces; and
5. Education systems are well managed.

Our Principles

• We pursue systemic reform supported by political commitment to learning for all children. Education services from to primary, secondary education, and beyond to and other tertiary education, need to be aligned and consistent. Thus, we take an integrated approach to the education system to ensure learning throughout the life cycle.
• We focus on equity and inclusion through a progressive path toward achieving universal access to quality education. Realizing true universal access requires equality of opportunity. We must meet the educational needs of, those in marginalized and rural communities,, displaced populations,, and other vulnerable groups. Our approach is inclusive and focused. We understand the needs of governments and work with them to ensure that education works for everyone.
• We focus on results and use evidence to keep improving policy by using metrics to guide improvements, are critical to identifying regions and schools that are achieving results, recognizing good practices, and learning what works. We invest in developing global public goods such as the to measure the key drivers of learning outcomes in basic education in a cost-effective manner (building on,, and ) and work with countries to improve their data systems.
• We want to ensure financial commitment commensurate with what is needed to provide basic services to all. As in the case of all other public resources,, We want to strengthen financing tied to results. Funds need to be appropriately directed and spent smartly across regions and schools, using data and evidence of how processes are being followed and the impact of interventions to guide improvements. Nearly 40% of our operations use some results-based financing schemes.
• We invest wisely in technology so that education systems embrace and learn to harness technology to support their learning objectives. The use of EdTech should be guided by : a clear purpose and focus on educational objectives; reaching all learners; empowering teachers; engaging an ecosystem of partners; and rigorously and routinely using data to learn what strategies, policies, and programs are effective to maximize student learning.

Tackling the Global Learning Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic Even before COVID-19, the world was facing a learning and skills crisis. COVID-19 has deepened this crisis. School closures have led to huge learning losses, and without urgent policy action, today’s students could lose 10% of their future average annual earnings.

1. Beyond reduced incomes, learning losses will lead to lower productivity, greater inequality, and increased risks of social unrest for decades to come.
2. These trends can be reversed if countries act quickly, decisively, and with adequate resources, guided by evidence on what works.
3. The, ramping up its support to countries through a variety of different channels and on different priority interventions.

Our is not just responding to the crisis, but is building forward better so that systems use this window of opportunity to shape more resilient systems that are better prepared to cope with future shocks, as well as more equitable systems that ensure opportunities for all.

• The predicted increase in Learning Poverty is a simulation, not a forecast. Learning losses can be minimized if urgent action is taken now.
• Country challenges vary, but there is a menu of options to build forward better, more resilient, and equitable education systems.
• Countries are facing an education crisis that requires a two-pronged approach: first, confronting the emergency and supporting an urgent return to at least semi-presential school activities and actions to recover lost time through remedial and accelerated learning; and, second, building on these investments for a more equitable, resilient, and effective system.
• Given the scale of the challenges and the competition for funding, countries will need to concentrate their efforts on the most pressing priorities and most cost-effective approaches to lessen learning poverty. Fortunately, there are evidence-based interventions that they can draw on.
• The framework for learning recovery can provide this approach. Its five elements are focused on ensuring that all children and youth are in school and building the foundational skills that they will need for success in school and beyond:
  • R each every child and keep them in school
  • A ssess learning levels regularly
  • P rioritize teaching the fundamentals
  • I ncrease the efficiency of instruction including through catch-up learning
  • D evelop psychosocial health and well-being

• Without prompt action, there is a serious risk that the learning losses suffered over the past two years could become permanent. But countries that adopt these five elements – tailored to their own contexts – can quickly make up the losses.
• can be a powerful tool to implement these actions by supporting teachers, children, principals, and parents; expanding accessible digital learning platforms, including radio/TV/Online learning resources (which is here to stay); and using data to identify and help at-risk children, personalize learning, and improve service delivery.

Looking ahead We must seize this opportunity to reimagine education in bold ways. The World Bank is committed to supporting countries during these challenging times. Together, we can build forward better more equitable, effective, and resilient education systems for the world’s children and youth. We not only owe it to them – in their minds rest our future.

• Global Initiatives
• At the global level, the World Bank promotes cross-regional and cross-sectoral knowledge; fosters in-depth technical knowledge and teams of experts through Global Solutions Groups and Thematic Groups; and incubates ideas, programs, and partnerships – including with multilateral, bilateral, foundations and with civil society organizations (CSOs) – in strategic areas of knowledge, advisory, and operational support.
• Accelerating Improvements:
• Supporting countries in establishing time-bound learning targets and a focused education investment plan, outlining actions and investments geared to achieve these goals.

Launched in 2020, the works with a set of ‘Accelerator’ countries to channel investments in education and to learn from each other. The program coordinates efforts across partners to ensure that the countries in the program show improvements in foundational skills at scale over the next three to five years.

• These investment plans build on the collective work of multiple partners, and leverage the latest evidence on what works, and how best to plan for implementation.
• Universalizing Foundational Literacy: Readying children for the future by supporting acquisition of foundational skills – the most fundamental of which is literacy – which are the gateway to other skills and subjects.

The includes near-term interventions of the education approach that successful countries have followed to help all children in classrooms become literate today. These include assuring political and technical commitment to making all children literate; ensuring effective literacy instruction by supporting teachers; providing quality, age-appropriate books; teaching children first in the language they speak and understand best; and fostering children’s oral language abilities and love of books and reading.

1. Strengthening Measurement Systems:
2. Enabling countries to gather and evaluate information on learning and its drivers more efficiently and effectively.
3. The World Bank supports initiatives to help countries effectively build and strengthen their measurement systems to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. Examples of this work include:

(1) The : developed by the World Bank’s Education Global Practice, can help countries reduce Learning Poverty. This tool offers a strong basis for identifying priorities for investment and policy reforms that are suited to each country context by focusing on the three dimensions of practices, policies, and politics. GEPD:

1. Highlights gaps between what the evidence suggests is effective in promoting learning and what is happening in practice in each system;
2. Allows governments to track progress as they act to close the gaps.

The GEPD has been implemented in seven education systems – Ethiopia, Jordan, Madagascar, Niger, Peru, Sierra Leone and Rwanda – and preparation is ongoing in eight more countries with expected completion by the end of 2024. (2) : a one-stop shop for knowledge, capacity-building tools, support for policy dialogue, and technical staff expertise to aid those working toward better assessment for better learning.

• LeAP is currently supported by the Russia Education Aid for Development (READ) Trust Fund program.
• Building & Synthesizing Evidence: Filling gaps on what works to improve learning and drawing out lessons to inform policy and implementation.
• The GEEAP, co-convened by the World Bank, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, brings together a diverse group of leading researchers and practitioners to provide guidance for policymakers.

It is chaired by Professor Kwame Akyeampong of The Open University and Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham.

• The first GEEAP report focused on cost-effective policies to improve education access and foundational learning;
• The second report offers guidance on how to reverse the devastating learning losses caused by the pandemic.

: In the past five years, the SIEF, a multi-donor trust fund focused on building evidence in the human development sectors, has supported 45 randomized control trials (with total funding of nearly US$20 million) that test out different approaches for improving education outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

To ensure the findings make a difference, SIEF has also invested in disseminating this evidence and building capacity of government staff, local researchers, and local journalists to help them critically appraise education evidence. Supporting Successful Teachers: Helping systems develop the right selection, incentives, and support to the professional development of teachers.

The has two main instruments: global public goods that support the implementation of the key principles, and operations that accompany governments in implementing successful teacher policies. Currently, the World Bank Education Global Practice has over 100 active projects supporting over 18 million teachers worldwide, about a third of the teacher population in low- and middle-income countries.

• : A World Bank-developed classroom observation tool designed to capture the quality of teaching in low- and middle-income countries, which is available in 12 languages. Since Teach launched in 2019, it has been applied in 36 countries, reaching almost 200,000 students.
• : The World Bank’s program focused on accelerating student learning by improving in-service teacher professional development (TPD) around the world. While Teach helps identify teachers’ professional development needs, Coach leverages these insights to support teachers to improve their teaching.

• Supporting Education Finance Systems:
• Strengthening country financing systems to mobilize more resources and improve the equity and efficiency of sector spending.
• The aims to support the strengthening of country financing systems to mobilize more resources and improve the equity and efficiency of education spending, by bringing together various partners to work on the development of sustainable financing strategies, better public financial management and stronger data and monitoring systems for education financing.
• Our Work in Fragile, Conflict, and Violent (FCV) Contexts:

The massive and growing global challenge of having so many children living in conflict and violent situations requires a response at the same scale and scope. Our education engagement in the Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) context, which stands at US$5.35 billion, has grown rapidly in recent years, reflecting the ever-increasing importance of the FCV agenda in education.

Indeed, these projects now account for more than 25% of the World Bank education portfolio of US$23.6 billion. As our support continues to grow to face the more numerous and longer-lasting crises (including those induced by climate emergencies), investments will be guided by our recent, The paper states that education is especially crucial to minimizing the effects of fragility and displacement on the welfare of youth and children in the short-term and preventing the emergence of violent conflict in the long-term.

It outlines our proposed way forward for keeping children safe and learning in these most difficult contexts, following the pillars of the, Last Updated: Oct 11, 2022 Support to Countries Throughout the Education Cycle Our support to countries covers the entire learning cycle, to help shape resilient, equitable, and inclusive education systems that ensure learning happens for everyone.

In March 2022, the World Bank approved its first in the education sector globally, in support of an eight-year program that addresses key education challenges in West Bank and Gaza, With the approved US$20 million from an expected overall envelope of US$60 million, the “” Program (SERATAC, which means your life journey or pathway in Arabic) aims to improve education outcomes of primary and secondary students and increase student pathways leading to tertiary education.

The US$150 million Ghana ) project is supporting a series of interventions to address the impacts of the pandemic on education and accelerate learning, including: (1) Scaling targeted instruction: The project is supporting a remedial program that provides instruction aligned to student learning needs by grouping students by proficiency.

The operation helped to train 70,000 teachers and produced new teaching and learning materials. (2) Self-guided learning: The program supported the distribution of pre-loaded tablets for self-guided learning for students with special education needs. (3) E-learning: The EdModo Ghana learning management system serves as a platform for distance and hybrid learning, and ongoing communication between students, parents, and teachers.

The US$500 million project is supporting efforts to improve education outcomes through decentralized planning and management, improved teacher capacity, and measures to address the impacts of the pandemic on learning. Improved classroom assessments: The project is supporting the use of tablet-enabled classroom assessments that allow for immediate access to learning gap data at a student- and school-level, and informing remedial programs.

• Teacher capacity: The project is strengthening needs-based teacher training, instituting teacher performance measures, and supporting DIKSHA, a platform that offers online training to more than 1.5 million registered teachers.
• In Colombia, a, approved in March 2022, will help improve pedagogical practices and the management of Colombia’s education sector to improve learning achievements and strengthen socio-emotional learning.

Coordination among teachers, principals, and local government representatives will be strengthened to improve the basic skills of the most vulnerable preschool and secondary-school students. Specifically, this loan will support programs that are key to guaranteeing a timely, effective post-pandemic response in education.

These programs include actions for the effective use of learning assessments, improvements in pedagogical practices, optimization of school management practices, coordination between educational institutions and local governments, and the strengthening of the School Meal Program. The US$510 million has been supporting Bangladesh Ministry of Education provide quality education to 13 million students from grades 6-12 since December 2017.

Between 2018 and 2019, the program helped improve access through targeted stipends and helped generate across English, Math, and Bangla in Grades 6, 8, and 10 (for instance, Bangla reading proficiency increased by 10% among grade 8 students). It also helped deliver two rounds of National Assessments for tracking learning outcomes and supported system reforms in curriculum, grants management, and system monitoring.

When schools closed in March 2020 due to COVID-19, the TSER program, It provided two rounds of stipends and tuition fees to 2.5 million secondary students (900,000 boys and 1.6 million girls) aged 11-17 and generated, It provided data on the and undertook direct outreach to vulnerable students to encourage them to stay engaged in schooling.

This has helped improve adolescent engagement in learning and aspirations, especially for girls. The program has also provided online training to more than 1,600 secondary teachers leading to improvements in their knowledge, skills, and reduction in burnout.

1. The Bank’s Euro 143.8 million (US Dollar 160 million equivalent) loan to the Republic of Turkey is enhancing the capacity of the education system to provide e-learning equitably to school-age children during and following the COVID-19 pandemic and future shocks.
2. The project consists of three components: 1) Emergency Connectivity and IT Infrastructure for Education in Emergencies, which finances the expansion of the country’s e-learning platform; 2) Digital Content for Safety and Quality, which finances goods, services, consultants, training and small refurbishments to support the distance education content; and 3) Institutional Capacity for Education Technology Resilience, which will strengthen capacity for the coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation of the Project and for the continued delivery of safe and equitable digital education services.

The project includes equity interventions for students most vulnerable to learning loss due to COVID-19 school closures. Activities to address gender-based distance education needs and risk mitigation are included, and its monitoring indicators are disaggregated by gender.

In addition, it will increase the weekly use of the online distance education platform to almost 12 million K-12 students and provide certified on-line training to more than 900,000 teachers. In Lao PDR, in 2011-12, only 6% of 3-5-year-olds from the poorest quintile were on track in literacy and numeracy.

The IDA-funded (2014-2020), covering 32,000 3-5-year-olds in 22 target districts in Lao PDR, is changing this. As a result of the project, nearly 70% of children have benefitted from access to ECE programs in target villages, and nearly 82% teachers have benefited from training and feedback based upon classroom observations.

1. Evaluations suggest significant gains in student enrollment, nutritional outcomes and learning levels due to project interventions.
2. The US$450, approved in 2021, is supporting critical interventions to boost access to quality early childhood development programs for rural populations, encompassing education, health, and nutrition services.

The project is creating and equipping preschools in select rural areas, with a target to enroll an additional 100,000 children in 6,000 new preschool units; over 4,100 preschool educators have already been recruited and trained on appropriate pedagogical practices; to promote stimulation and early learning during COVID-19 closures, a new TV program was broadcast to promote home-based playful learning.

The in Peru supported the government’s National Education Project 2021, which adopted a strategy to increase the quality and relevance of tertiary education by creating a higher education quality assurance system (HEQAS) providing an assurance framework across basic and higher education levels. The project provided support to 135 higher education institutions, of which 20 were from among the country’s 50 universities and 115 were from among the country’s 370 public institutes.

In 2013, just 5% of the poorest households in Uzbekistan had children enrolled in preschools. Thanks to the, by July 2019, around 100,000 children will have benefitted from the half-day program in 2,420 rural kindergartens, comprising around 49% of all preschool educational institutions, or over 90% of rural kindergartens in the country.

Since 2014, the has become synonymous with delivering quality and relevant post-graduate education that meets the demand for skills in priority fields. Between 2014 and 2020, the International Development Association (IDA) has invested over US$580 million to support more than 70 centers in 20 countries in West, Central, East, and Southern Africa.

This supported over 14,000 Masters and PhD students in agriculture, health, and other sciences. The program continues to expand across Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on improving teaching and learning, expanding access, and ensuring sustainability. Last Updated: Oct 11, 2022 The Power of Partnerships In addition to working closely with governments in our client countries, the World Bank also works at the global, regional, and local levels with a range of technical partners, including foundations, non-profit organizations, bi-laterals, and other multilateral organizations.

These collaborations are funded by other strategic partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and UNESCO. Some examples of our most recent global partnerships include: UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have joined forces to close the learning data gaps that still exist and that preclude many countries from monitoring the quality of their education systems and assessing if their students are learning.

The three organizations have agreed to a, a commitment to ensure that all countries, especially low-income countries, have at least one quality measure of learning by 2025, supporting coordinated efforts to strengthen national assessment systems. UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): Aimed at measuring and urging attention to foundational literacy as a prerequisite to achieve SDG4, this partnership was launched in 2019 to help countries strengthen their learning assessment systems, better monitor what students are learning in internationally comparable ways and improve the breadth and quality of global data on education.

Together, UIS and the World Bank launched the, FCDO and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Supported by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the EdTech Hub is aimed at improving the quality of ed-tech investments.

The Hub launched a rapid response Helpdesk service to provide just-in-time advisory support to 70 low- and middle-income countries planning education technology and remote learning initiatives.

1. UNICEF, UNESCO, & GPE:
2. Through a consortium with UNICEF and UNESCO, supported by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the World Bank is providing greater support to teachers for accelerated instruction; using EdTech to support continuity of learning; and getting reading, learning, and play materials into homes.
3. Bringing together global funding to maximize results

The World Bank has launched two Trust Funds to streamline partner investments that support operations and amplify impact. The two funds will be complementary – covering lifelong learning. Beyond these two trust funds, the World Bank receives support through partner-specific trust funds.

The Foundational Learning Compact (FLC): A new umbrella trust fund designed to align partnerships, financing, and technical support around a few specific and measurable education outcome indicators, increasing Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) (a metric which combines quantity and quality of schooling), and decreasing Learning Poverty.

The FLC’s scope covers Early Childhood (including the ), Primary Education, and Secondary Education. It is designed around three pillars (measurement, policy, and knowledge and implementation capacity-building) with an emphasis on cross-cutting themes (financing; fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV); gender; inclusion; and technology).

Tertiary Education & Skills Training (TES): A new umbrella trust fund that aims to strengthen the policy framework and increase system-wide and institutional capacity, to enable access to relevant, quality, and equitable higher education, formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), and youth and adult learning, which are aligned to labor market, economic, and societal needs.

TES will help to align support for development of global public goods and co-financing of implementation grants around tertiary education and skills training of the current or imminent workforce. Last Updated: Oct 11, 2022 : Overview
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How is education a tool for development?

Krupa Savajiyani is a second year BLS student and she likes to express her ideas and give her thoughts a new direction. Education -A Powerful Tool for Development. It is often said that education holds a magnificent place in an individual’s life. A person with proper education has better understanding of things happening around him/her and is better able to face challenges in all walks of life.

1. An educated mind is the one which rules the world.
2. Education in layman’s language is restricted to receiving marks or having a degree which is necessary to earn money for a living.
3. But education isn’t just restrict to just that much.
4. There are schools and colleges developed as a part of educational institutions where knowledge is imparted to students.

Here, education is one which provides a platform for healthy growth of knowledge, skills, talents and for overall development of personality of an individual. In ancient times, girls and women were deprived of receiving an education because they were married off at an early age.

Giving her an education was considered a burden to the family as dowry was also practised when she was to get married. Poor families who could not afford to send their children to school made their children work from an early age in hazardous industries which was extremely unhealthy and dangerous for their life.

Child labour is now illegal. Th ey say the pen is mightier than a sword which clearly states that education is a weapon more powerful than others. An educated person can live a respectful and dignified life and can impart moral and social values by sharing their knowledge with others.

• Article21 – A of the Indian Constitution speaks about the basic Right to Education.
• Savitribai Phule was one such woman who fought to educate the women and girls in her time and kick-started the process of education.
• In the present era, women are as adept, qualified, educated and able as men are.
• A woman is today no longer dependent on others but independent due to education and has earned herself a respectful position.

Today the thought of male dominance needs to be transformed and equality needs to prevail in all walks of life. The word education itself states E-Enhancement. D-Directive. U-Understanding C-Confidence. A-Achieve T-Target I-Intelligence O-Opportunity N-Narrative Thus, along with the changing scenario women too should be educated and receive an equal footing with men.

• There are numerous crimes that occur predominantly against women like sexual violence, rape, molestation, human trafficking, acid attacks, etc.
• The news, everyday, flashes with stories of domestic abuse, sexual violence, rapes, discrimination on the basis of gender where a woman in society is not valued, is objectified and is always blamed for whatever happens.

Women haven’t received justice and this needs to change. An idea of development starts with the ideals of equality, unity, togetherness, growth, in order to attain prosperity. Education helps to remove illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, and unnecessary evils which obstruct the development process.

1. Education in one’s life can help improve the standard of living.
2. Various programmes have been conducted in order to spread awareness about the rights of women, their legal rights, the importance of a girl child, the need to educate a woman and empower her to move ahead in all walks of life.
3. An educated, aware and literate country can fasten the process of development and progress in all walks of life and help it transform from a developing one to a developed one.

Opinions expressed are of the writer.
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Why is education important for development essay?

Education means a form of learning in which knowledge, skills and habits are transferred from on generation to the nest generation. The education of a person starts when he born. At the early stage the most important teachers of a child are his parents and specially his mother’s.

Because one mothers can teach his child best. As there are three levels of education primary, secondary and tertiary. Get Help With Your Essay If you need assistance with writing your essay, our professional essay writing service is here to help! Essay Writing Service One always quickly consider that for the developmental role of education in a country the tertiary level is important, but I think that for better future the bass means start is important and the start of a child’s education is within his mother’s hands.

Why is Education Important for Development? Julia Gillard Explains

So the nations or countries are by build by mothers, if he teacher child well then it is impossible that country can’t developing. The education plays a great role in developing country in every field. It plays like a model role in the development of one country if the people of a country are educated then they can easily helps them in development.

• In the earlier stages the peoples are talented, so that they invent many ideas and think much more but due to lake of education they can’t prove them much more.
• At that time they have no laboratories in which they can prove their ideas.
• But now the world which is developing are used their ideas and thinking.

It is due to education that they are developed so that they can prove the thinking of past scientists. Education is the driving force for the national development and economic growth are very strongly depends on the education and these both are playing great role in developing a country.

• The nations are build by education economic growth can be increased, if the peoples of a country are educated they can easily grow up the national economy because then they can better knows the economic principles and rules and can think about them easily if they are educated.
• Education gives people the skills they need to help themselves out of poverty or, in other words, into prosperity.

If one got education then he is able to a better job then a labor’s work. He is ale to do a government job or any other private job and can show their skills which are helpful in developing a country. There is huge difference between an educated and uneducated person, an uneducated can’t show his ideas and skills better than an educated person.

He is always beyond the educated one. Hence it is the education which can leads a person from poverty into prosperity. As we know that the agriculture plays a very important role in the development of a country. The education plays a great role in the field of agriculture. If we gives the education of agriculture to the students then they can perform better in the agriculture field, they can invent the new ideas which improve the rate of agriculture and their quality.

Nowadays the nation gives a chances to the student to study about the agriculture which is very good process because if the new talent know the advantages of agriculture in the role of country then they can solve all the problems in the field of agriculture if they study the agriculture.

And by this way if the agriculture of a country is healthy then that country can perform better in the competition of advancement in the world. Therefore the education plays a great role in agriculture which is very important for the development of country. Education plays great role on health. As if the peoples of a country are healthy then they can work hard and good.

They can think positively and perform his duty better than any sick person if the peoples of a country are educated then they can take health care and cleanliness. They can take his health care better than an uneducated person by knowing the advantages and disadvantages of that action that they want to done.

They never want to do anything which is harmful for his health. And due to this reason they can take health care and can perform better in developing a country. For the development of a country, the medical field is necessary. One country should have advanced his medical field for the development of a country.

Nowadays the ratios of doctor’s are increasing gradually. The doctors can play a great role in developing a country. They can control the health of people of a country. if they work hard then they can invent new ideas and processes of different diseases.

• If the doctors of a one country are talented and invent new ideas about the health and in medical field they can play a great role in developing a country.
• The development of a country in medical field are within the doctors hands, if they work hard then they can achieve all the targets that are face nowadays in a country.

The role of religion in the development of a country can plays a great role. The religion has great effects on nations. One country can know him in the world y religion. Actually the nations are building by religions. The religion of one country can united the peoples.

• They can live in a unity by the religion.
• The religion and culture plays a great role in a country, they can attract the peoples of other countries and also have effect on non-Muslims.
• The countries can develop by remaining his cultural and religions relations.
• Similarly all type of education, the religious education plays a good role in developing a country.

Hence we should also take interest in religious education. It is necessary to familiarize students to the technology and modern living and careers and in the development of country. if the students knows that what and how technology helps in the development of a country and they are thought about the technology then they can make advanced from them and can play a great role because nowadays the student are talented and can achieved the targets.

The technology can become country prosperity; they play a huge role in the developing countries. The one of the most important thing which plays an important role in developing a country is AN ART. The art of one country should develop a country. All subjects like technology, medical and engineering, the arts has its own importance.

By arts one country can remain continues his culture and history. Nowadays the nations are developing by arts. “Art enables us to find ourselves or lose ourselves at the same time.” Arts include many branches which help in developing a country. Mostly they include media, painting, designing and many more which helps much nowadays in developing a country.

• Like other types of education the art also have some value in developing a country.
• It is due to arts that the countries lead one another.
• So we should also give a time to study arts because it plays a great role in developing a country.
• In general all levels of education are important but the most important one is tertiary level, which Includes College, university and higher education.

In this stage the students have to face many difficulties and learn more about the every field of life. Also within the teen ages a child have sharp mind so they can learn every thing in every field. In other words they can think both positively and negatively and they can show a good result in both field.

So here the education plays important role to teach a child that what is right and what is wrong? If they have to teach well means teach positively then they can shows a good result in developing a country. So that’s the reason that tertiary level of education plays an important role in the development of country.

Education teaches us that how one can live his life better. He teaches us about the relationships and manner of leaving in a society then in country and in a world at global level. He teaches us the difference between that how can leave our life better and prevent ourselves from bad societies.

An education is a basic necessity for any country’s development and helps us in teaching that how we can improve the culture of peace. Due to education we can improve our technology and mostly our defense technology by which we can secure our country. if the peoples of a country are educated then the other countries want a relationship with that country by which we can improve the business with other countries and can improve the income of our country, and can leads our country at the top of world’s country list.

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• View our services The country or nation’s systems are by one person which is known as leaders of that country.
• Now if the leaders of a country are well educated and qualified then they can control all the system of that country very well.
• They can think positive and can compete with another country easily in the field of development and prosperity of a country.

They can easily perform his functions and duties under the rules and equality with every person, otherwise if the leaders of a country are uneducated then they can’t control the system well, they can’t give justice to every one. They can’t take any information about the modern world,They can’t compete with another countries in the field of development.

• Hence there is a great difference between an educated and uneducated leader.
• This is only educated leader who can perform every duty of a country well.
• Every field of education has its own importance in the development of a country.
• Like other subjects engineering also plays great importance.
• Nowadays all the factories and industries work due to engineering.

Due to engineering the most difficult and time consuming works are become short, due to machine and new technology we are able to done it in a very short time. Due to engineering the countries are even able to become an atomic bomb. They invent many new technologies all most in every fields which can work easily and time saving.

1. One nation can become better from another one on the basis of technologies.
2. So the education is necessary for seeding the technical education like engineering because they can play a great role in developing a country and helps them to become superior in the world.
3. There are some difficulties that we face now it the field of education also which creates problems in developing a country.

The most important challenges in the field of education are acknowledgment. The peoples don’t know the importance of education. They don’t understand his importance. The second thing is that, there is a lot of poverty in a country due t which we face challenges in the field of education.

The people can’t found something for his food then how can how got education and become a pillars in the development of a country. After that one of the problem is corruption due to which we can’t got opportunity by which we can go higher education and can help in developing a country. Those countries who know the importance of education, so they first prefer to got education.

Also there are some countries in which all the students can’t get education in the universities. So they give scholarships to someone’s who are talented and they got education on free of cost. Those countries first prefer to get education because they know that there is nothing which helps in developing a country more than education.

Therefore the education plays a great role in a country. They help in the every field of life. It informs us in about the every thing after this is in our control that how we use that thing. We can use them positively or negatively. If we want to develop a country then we should be use it positively. Education seeks us that what and how and how many one thing develop a country.

it shows all the advantages and disadvantages about that thing. Education helps us to teach one thing first and then we can use it in developing a country. Hence the education plays a huge and a great role in developing a country. Due to this the Diogenes Caertius says that “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth”.
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Why education is so importance?

2. Sharpening critical skills – Education helps you develop critical skills like decision-making, mental agility, problem-solving, and logical thinking. People face problems in their professional as well as personal lives. In such situations, their ability to make rational and informed decisions comes from how educated and self-aware they are.
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Why is education a key to national development?

Role of Education in National Development Education is a significant sector in any nation, being a major investment in the human capital development. Education means a form of self-development in shape of learning, knowledge, skills and habits to be conveyed from one generation to the next.

• Looking back and flipping the pages of history, the importance of education for the economic, social and moral development of any nation can be observed.
• Henceforth, education is one of the foremost human rights to be given priority and provided to all human beings solely by reason of being human.
• The education plays a pivotal role in developing a country in every aspect, be it social, cultural or moral development.

Accordingly, the role of education in national development of a country cannot be denied. Education is the platform that manipulates the needed manpower for national development. A developed and educated society is the one that has enough manpower and each person occupies his or her rightful position to revolutionize the way people live.

1. Not only educating a nation with an aim to achieve the political, economic, social, moral and cultural aspirations leads the country towards advancement, but also increases in the individual knowledge and fosters national development.
2. Hence, the leading ideology that without education a nation has no possible solutions to bring advancement and enlightenment within the country.

It is prominent to mention that the sole purpose of education is to train an individual to meet the needs of the society and find an enchanting way to boost up the national development in the best possible ways. Education is the driving force for the national development and well-managed economic growth.

There is no doubt in saying that the quality of a nation’s education determines the level of its national development. The school system, which gathers multi-cultured students together, promotes mutual co-existence among the different-cultured background students. As a result, this remains the only way to promote national unity and peaceful co-existence which will, with no doubt, lead to national development.

An educational environment helps people figure out the skills that they direly need to get rid of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and any other so called social problem. Therefore, school at various levels are expected to educate upcoming future leaders and develop the multi-dimensional technical capacities needed for economic growth and development.

The agriculture sector plays an everlasting role to direct the country towards development, be it national level or international level; however, the respective part played by the education in strengthening the national economy for the betterment and prosperity of the nation is worth appreciating. Hence the pivotal role of education to enhance and overcome the hardships in health sector cannot be denied at any case, for an educated nation would make a healthy country, aware of the harmful aspects of diseases and how to overcome them.

The pages of history are full of such inspirational revolutions brought by the positive impacts of education into the lives of people in shape of telephone, blob, aeroplane, computer and mobile phone, and in shape of uncountable other inventions and discoveries.

As once Nigeria had witnessed a lot of ills and shortcomings in its education system as it was based on the British educational system, which sadly was unable to pay off. In 1969, the Curriculum Conference held with an aim to focus on the education system of Nigerian children resulted in an educational revolution in Nigeria which gave birth to the National Policies on Education in 1977, 1981, 1998, and 2004 respectively.

The utmost importance attached to education in Nigeria was clearly underscored in the National policy on education (2004). We are living in an advanced and innovative society. The demand of the era is creativity, integration of knowledge, research and analytical approach of thinking.

• To prepare the youth and children to confront with the suo moto situation requires analytical and critical thinking which would make them more flexible and innovative to deal with the uncertainties at national and international levels.
• It is necessary to familiarize the students to the technology and modern methodologies of living for the national development of the country.

Education is the route that takes a nation through the culture of productivity by enabling each and every individual to discover the creative potentials in them that they have been gifted naturally and apply the same improvement of the existing skill and technique of performing specific tasks.

1. Education also leads the people to the ultimate satisfaction of being useful to the society they live in.
2. Additionally, a good and sufficient funded education system develops in individuals those values which make for good citizenship, such as honesty, selflessness, tolerance, dedication, hard work and personal integrity, identifying that education despite other good impacts gives moral training as well.

From these mentioned above all, it is clear that education has a critical function in national development. Education is no doubt, directly linked with the process of nation building and development. The foundation of every state, however, is the education of its youth.
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Why is education a powerful tool?

“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela said it. Today we can verify it. Education allows us to better understand the world in which we live. Through education, we have become thoughtful about what happens around us.

We observe things from multiple perspectives and not only from the one they tell us. Education interconnects and equates us as a species. You can read complete details of Education is the most powerful weapon here in this article. Education provides us with a bridge to science and technology. Among many other disciplines, it helps us understand what the great advances of humanity have been and why today we are who we are.

Without going any further, the current situation we are experiencing on the planet is the evidence. It shows us how important it is to maintain strong pillars of science and medical technology. When we studied in high school, we never realized how important what we learned in its day would be to understand our surroundings.

Today we can check it. Many people assumed that mathematics was a set of useless numbers that were only designed to make our lives miserable. Did you know that many mathematical models are being used to predict the behavior of the Covid 19 pandemic? In many cases, important decisions depend on them. Some said, why am I going to learn English if I am not going abroad? Why do I have to study Biology if I want to be an artist? Every day we try to convey to the students how important it is that they learn and not just pass.

Of course, getting a grade is important. But if they see learning as a positive and different experience. They will make the most of it and forget the consequences of studying at home when the weather is great on the street. And most importantly, they will learn to learn.

• This is perhaps very easy to say but difficult to put into practice in classes with 30 students.
• With the selective and thousands of exams just around the corner.
• However, private classes allow a different approach than what we are used to.
• Private classes allow us to offer a unique experience that focuses not only on the needs of each student but on the learning process itself.

Private classes provide the “most powerful weapon to change the world” if carried out with a proper approach. However, I believe that none of this community should miss out on this magnificent opportunity to make a difference in someone.
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How can education be a powerful tool?

Education is an essential need! – Education provides you the tools to improve the quality of life in modern society both economically and sociologically. Education is power and no one can ever deny this fact. It enables us to make the right choices in life and to perform our duties properly.
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Is education a tool to success?

Education is often considered a real success behind any future success. It paves the way for the people to have a promising future and to receive ample opportunities along the way (Al-Shuaibi, 2014).
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