ASER Report

Aser 2024 highlights a strong learning recovery, digital literacy gains, and shifting enrolment trends in rural India, with government schools seeing major improvements

ASER report says more boys know how to use smartphone

The increase in government school enrolment seen during the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have reversed, with the proportion of children aged 6-14 years enrolled in government schools nearly back to the 2018 levels, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released on Tuesday. The report also noted that not only there has been a full recovery from the pandemic-induced learning loss, the learning levels in the primary grades are higher than past levels in some cases. The crucial report found that more than 82 per cent children in the 14-16 age group know how to use a smartphone but only 57 per cent of them use it for educational purposes. "The increase in government school enrolment seen during the COVID-19 years seems to have reversed. Private school enrolment has been steadily rising since 2006 in rural India. The proportion of 614-year-olds enrolled in private schools rose from 18.7 per cent in 2006 to 30.8 per cent in 2014 and stayed at that level in 2018. "During

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ASER reflects challenges for govt's education programme

Arunachal Pradesh recorded over 95 percent enrollment of children in schools in the past 15 years, in the age group of 6-14 years, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)

ASER is a nationwide, citizen-led household survey that provides a snapshot of children's schooling and learning in rural India

The main reason for the rise in enrollment rate was a steep rise in admissions in the government schools, said ASER report

Marginalised people lost out during online classes; education quality suffered for all: NCERT survey

In 2020, when schools were closed, ASER found that barely one-third of all enrolled children were receiving learning material and activities from their schools (35.6 per cent)

With schools having been closed for long periods, learning has inevitably taken a hit

The latest Annual Status of Education Report of 2021 (ASER 2021) throws light on the status of school reopening in rural India, and the quality of learning in rural homes.

Addressing school learning losses should be a priority

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ASER report has important pointers for online schooling

The dropout rate in some bigger states like Karnataka, Telangana and Rajasthan was 11.3 per cent, 14 per cent and 14.9 per cent respectively

2.7 per cent of rural children in Class I could not even recognise letters in their medium of instruction, and 35.7 per cent could not recognise numbers from 1-9

Govt schools need to focus on quality