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Education Development in South Asia

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.

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Education Development in South Asia

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  1. Education Development in South Asia

  2. 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.

  3. Pakistan and India’s Education

  4. Education in Sri Lanka • Social indicators comparable to U.S. • Universal Education and inexpensive medical clinics • Significant GDP growth • Poverty decreases • Improvements occurred during a long civil war • Struggling with secondary education and post-secondary

  5. The State of Kerala’s success in India Literacy Rates in Kerala Year Persons Males Females 1951 47.18 58.35 36.43 1961 55.08 64.89 45.56 1971 69.75 77.13 62.53 1981 78.85 84.56 73.36 1991 89.81 93.62 86.17 2001 90.92 94.20 87.86 2011 94.59 97.10 92.12

  6. More on India’s Education System • Elementary Education - Low Literacy Rates - Rampant teacher absenteeism - Low reading, writing and Math scores • Higher Education - A highly centralized system - Low gross enrolment ratios - Paradox of brilliant graduates and a dysfunctional education system - Difficult to get into

  7. 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.

  8. Number of Colleges, Universities and Students

  9. 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.

  10. Education in India – College & Universities

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