The+Indian+Educational+System

=**Analyzing the Indian Educational System**= As a developing country quickly on the rise in the new global economy, India faces a unique set of challenges in education. In the city centers, many of the problems are comparable to those faced in the United States--insufficient funding, the digital divide, low teacher salaries, and a lack of motivation. However, outside these hubs of commercial growth, India faces educational obstacles much more typical of the developing world. Many children and families in these areas are left unaccounted for, and no direct initiative is taken by the government to ensure that all children attend school. For many families, it makes more financial sense to keep children at home or send them to work than to pay to send them at a school that is perhaps too outdated and poorly funded to have any relevance. Those children that do make it to school often move into city centers with the intention of starting a business or finding a white-collar job but are ill-equipped to do either of these things because the education they received in their village was not designed for use in the global economy.

(Picture: Students from the Pardada Pardadi Girls' School in Anupshar, India [www.education4change.org])

[|Education Deprivation in India: Comparing India and the United States (powerpoint)]

Existing Role of Indian Government

Access to Education

Quota Systems

Quality of Education

Effect of NGOs

Solutions