Stepping Stones: Enhancing the quality of primary education

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Executive SummaryKey resources Key partners Value

propositionModel ResourcesImplementation

Key activites

Costs Channels

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Approach• Approach• Research• Solution• Implementation• Resources• Channels• Costs

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Facts• 58% of Indian children do not complete primary education*• ASER report points there is a serious flaw in rural education*• Remote parts of the country has the least access to education• Education that’s being provided is not of the best quality*• Proper environment for the education is not available in most schools• Need to bring about change is need of hour - Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the

Right to Education Act 2010 as well as the Mid Day Meals Scheme have worked wonders with little improvement

* Refer Appendix

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ResearchKen Robinson- • Education kills creativityBunker Roy- • Education for the poor not degreeBill gates- • Teacher feedback is important as is the teaching styleDaphine Balvier• Creating a product which combines the things you don’t like and thing you loveSalman Khan• Creating mass collaborated education in the modern world

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Solution

Giving access of technology to the primary students and enable them to learn through discussion within a group, as its believed that true education is in form of knowledge that cant be thought.

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Implementation• Volunteers moving to public school• One two hours of classes daily• Bringing all the technological equipment's• Engaging the kids and introducing the English and computer education• Making groups of children and letting them learn by collaboration• Learning from the youngsters in the process• Overcoming the gap between rich and poor

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Resources• Initially government can give the funds

• NGO’s

• CSR activities

• College volunteers

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Channels• Advertisements for the volunteers on TV , Print media, Social websites

• Making direct channels of communication between volunteers and students

• Technological aspects- Laptops , tablets and free internet access for the schools with lesser opportunities

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Cost• Initial cost have to be burnt by the government

• Companies as part of CSR activities can donate laptops and tablets

• Travelling costs of the volunteers have to taken in account

• Plus provision for a sustained model of education and investment in the future on this new revolutionized quality enhancement in primary education

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Thank You

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Appendix• http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx

• http://www.asercentre.org/education/India/status/p/143.html

• http://www.ssa.nic.in/

• http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-common/census_data_2001.html

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