Education Development in South Asia
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EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA
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Education Development in South Asia. Comparing Education Systems: Pakistan and India. Overall South Asia has low levels of health and education Why is that? Brainstorm a list of reasons why this region might have some of the lowest levels of health and education. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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EDUCATI
ON DEVELOPM
ENT IN
SOUTH ASIA
COMPARING EDUCATION SYSTEMS: PAKISTAN AND INDIA
Overall South Asia has low levels of health and education
Why is that? Brainstorm a list
of reasons why this region might have some of the lowest levels of health and education.
PAKISTAN AND INDIA’S EDUCATION
Pakistan IndiaLiteracy Rate 49.85% 61.01%Primary Education Completion
63% 90%
# of students enrolled in post-secondary schools
401,056 11,295,041
Life Expectancy 65.99 66.8Unemployment Rate 15% 10.8%
EDUCATION IN SRI LANKA
Social indicators comparable to U.S.
Universal Education and inexpensive medical clinics
Significant GDP growth
Poverty decreasesImprovements
occurred during a long civil war
Struggling with secondary education and post-secondary
THE STATE OF KERALA’S SUCCESS IN INDIA
Health Indicators Kerala India
Total Fertility rate (per woman)
1.70 2.90
Death rate (per 1,000 population)
6.60 7.40
Birth rate (per 1,000 population)
14.60 22.80
Couple Protection rate (%)
62.30 52
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 population)
12.00 53.00
Life at birth (Male) 71.40 62.60
Life at birth (Average) 74.00 63.50
Life at birth (Female) 76.30 64.20
Maternal mortality ratio (per lakh live births) * 2009
110 301
Year Persons MalesFemales1951 47.18 58.35 36.431961 55.08 64.89 45.561971 69.75 77.13 62.531981 78.85 84.56 73.361991 89.81 93.62 86.172001 90.92 94.20 87.862011 94.59 97.10 92.12
Literacy Rates in Kerala
MORE ON INDIA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM
Elementary Education- Low Literacy Rates- Rampant teacher absenteeism- Low reading, writing and Math scoresHigher Education- A highly centralized system- Low gross enrolment ratios- Paradox of brilliant graduates and a dysfunctional education system- Difficult to get into
HIGHER EDUCATION : SOME CONCERNS
• India has significant advantages in the 21st century knowledge race:
• It has a large higher education sector — the third largest in the world in student numbers, after China and the United States.
• It uses English as a primary language of higher education and research.
• It has a long academic tradition. Academic freedom is respected.
NUMBER OF COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENTS
Year Colleges Universities Students (million)
1857-58 27 3 0.00025
1947-48 496 20 0.2
1950-51 578 28 0.2
1960-61 1819 45 0.6
1970-71 3277 93 2.0
1980-81 4577 123 2.8
1990-91 6627 184 4.4
2001-02 11146 272 8.8
2005-06 17625 335 10.5
QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION• Remarkable
achievements of western universities
• Student migration to American, West European, Russian and Chinese Universities.
• Indian students are larger in number in any university abroad in search of quality education
• Source of revenue for advanced countries.
EDUCATION IN INDIA – COLLEGE & UNIVERSITIES
