{"id":4609,"date":"2025-01-29T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:52:40","slug":"what-is-the-annual-status-of-education-report-aser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-annual-status-of-education-report-aser\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Annual Status of Education Report Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>After a prolonged decline due to learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has now been a modest recovery in foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) among school students, according to the ASER 2024, released recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Annual Status of Education Report<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>annual citizen-led survey<\/strong> that provides reliable <strong>estimates of children\u2019s schooling and learning levels in rural India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ASER is published <strong>by the NGO Pratham,<\/strong> and the survey has been conducted every year since 2005.<\/li>\n<li>In 2016, ASER switched to an alternate-year model where the \u2018basic\u2019 ASER is conducted in all rural districts of the country every other year rather than annually.<\/li>\n<li>In the gap years, a smaller survey (typically 1-2 districts per state) focuses on other age groups and domains.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018<strong>basic\u2019 ASER survey tracks enrollment for children aged 3-16<\/strong> and <strong>assesses basic reading and arithmetic of children aged 5-16<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>ASER is a <strong>household-based <\/strong>rather than school-based survey.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This design enables all children to be included those who have never been to school or have dropped out; those who are in government schools, private schools, religious, or other types of schools; as well as those who are absent from school on the day of the assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of ASER 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During the pandemic years, there was a big jump in <strong>government school enrolment<\/strong>, with the proportion of 6\u201314-year-old children enrolled in government schools rising from 65.6 percent in 2018 to <strong>72.9 percent in 2022. <\/strong>This number is back to <strong>66.8 percent in 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Private school enrolment <\/strong>has been <strong>steadily rising since 2006 in rural India.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The proportion of6-14-year-olds enrolled in private schoolsrose from 18.7 percent in 2006 to <strong>30.8 percent in 2014 and stayed at that level in 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The report also noted that not only has there been a <strong>full recovery from<\/strong> the <strong>pandemic-induced learning loss,<\/strong> the learning levels in the primary grades are higher than past levels in some cases.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>percentage of Class 3 children who can perform at least subtraction at<\/strong> the <strong>basic arithmetic level <\/strong>was <strong>33.7% in 2024<\/strong>, up from 25.9% in 2022 and higher than the pre-pandemic rate of 28.2% in 2018.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While private schools saw a rise of about four percent, government schools saw a sharper seven percent surge in this field.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of <strong>Class 5 <\/strong>children <strong>who can now read a text at the Class 2 level<\/strong> was <strong>44.8% in 2024,<\/strong> up from 38.5% in 2022 and nearly matching the 2018 rate of 44.2%.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>However, this percentagehas not yet reached pre-pandemic levels at private schools; in 2024, it was 59.3%, up from 56.8% in 2022, but still less than 65.1% in 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More than 82 percent of children in the 14-16 age<\/strong> group <strong>know how to use a smartphone, <\/strong>but only 57 percent of them use it for educational purposes.<\/li>\n<li>The data in the report shows that <strong>both teacher and student attendance in government elementary schools has increased.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>From 72.4% in 2018 to 73% in 2022 to 75.9% in 2024, the average student attendance rose.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, from 85.1% in 2018, the average teacher attendance rose to 86.8% in 2022 and 87.5% in 2024.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In pre-primary schools<\/strong> f<strong>or children aged five, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra<\/strong>, <strong>Kerala, and Nagaland <\/strong>are among the states with <strong>enrollment rates above 90%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Annual Status of Education Report FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is India&#8217;s annual education budget?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Budget Allocation for the FY 2024-25 of \u20b9 73,498 cr is the highest ever for the Department of School Education &amp; Literacy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the new education policy 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The National Education Policy 2024 places a strong emphasis on integrating vocational training and internship from an early age, offering a significant opportunity to blend skills-based learning with the mainstream school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is NGO Pratham famous for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Established in 1994, Pratham is known for its Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), a nationwide survey that assesses children&#8217;s learning levels in rural India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/rise-in-govt-school-enrolment-during-covid-reversed-full-recovery-from-learning-loss-aser-report\/article69150453.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Status of Education Report is an annual citizen-led survey that provides reliable estimates of children\u2019s schooling and learning levels in rural India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}