Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Banerji, Rukmini
• Mukherjee, Anit N

Titel

Achieving universal elementary education in India: Future strategies for ensuring access, quality and finance

Ist Teil von

• Margin : the journal of applied economic research, 2008-06, Vol.2 (2), p.213-228

Ort / Verlag

B-42, Panchsheel Enclave, New Delhi: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• India's programme for universalisation of elementary education, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), is regarded as the largest such programme in the world. Over the last five years, impressive strides have been made in improving infrastructure, ensuring access, bringing out-of-school children into the mainstream education system and appointing teachers. In the next phase of the SSA, until 2012, the focus needs to shift to retention and quality, which are interlinked. Children's learning achievements can be improved significantly through appropriate strategies of teacher training and remedial education. The financial requirements for enhancing the quality of primary education will have to be ensured through a mix of fiscal measures, devolution strategies and new implementation mechanisms.