Primary education in India needs a fix:
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The quality of primary education in India has been a cause for concern for quite some time. While the current policy, including a new legislation for universal education, lays out a grand vision of raising children's education profile, it barely lays emphasis on developing their skills to learn.
Clearly, the primary education system in the country is broken and attempts to fix it are feeble. Unless the problem is addressed quickly, these young ones would grow to join the swelling ranks of the 'educated unemployables' in the country.
Sriram Balasubramanian
Read more in Forbes India
The quality of primary education in India has been a cause for concern for quite some time. While the current policy, including a new legislation for universal education, lays out a grand vision of raising children's education profile, it barely lays emphasis on developing their skills to learn.
Clearly, the primary education system in the country is broken and attempts to fix it are feeble. Unless the problem is addressed quickly, these young ones would grow to join the swelling ranks of the 'educated unemployables' in the country.
Sriram Balasubramanian
