Talk:Education in India

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[edit] Cleanup

I added the clean-up tag as the table is very poorly presented and further a better quality article can surely be prepared for a large country like India, see as example Education in the Netherlands.--AYArktos 01:26, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I think the whole idea of a table telling things is very weak. In fact, I feel that it is somehow a reflection of the Education in India. I strongly feel that we completely eliminate the table and start writing prose. If none has any objections, I am willing to rewrite the article with generous help from other wikipedians. --coolmallu 13:25, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

I have added a lot of content, but I have not removed the cleanup tag as I am not sure what to do with the table. I plan to expand the article more. utcursch | talk June 30, 2005 08:45 (UTC)

How about a vote to remove the box. I think it serves no purpose and should removed in it's entirety. --Pranathi 22:01, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I have gone through the ICSE syllabus myself and I have also had some occasion of comparing with the state board syllabus in the state of Uttar Pradesh, and it appears that claims that the former is harder can definitely not be established. Hence I removed the line which says that the ICSE and CBSE syllabuses are harder. --Piyush

[edit] Template:Education infobox

I created a template, Template:Education infobox which can give a quick at a glance demographics table for education articles. See its implementation at Education in the United States and feel free to help improve the template.--naryathegreat | (talk) 01:00, August 7, 2005 (UTC) "Nalanda, being the biggest centre, handled all branches of knowledge, and housed up to 100,000,000,000 students at its peak" what does that mean? 100 billion people! Please edit this article with facts Indian ace 06:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from History of Medical Education in Calicut

I don't really think this must be merged here... but that article subject is too narrow (we don't want articles on History of XXX in YYY city, do we? I don't.). Merging it here is a possible solution. I think even better may be renaming it to Medical education in India and turn this into a section, or paragraph, in it. Nabla 01:08:40, 2005-08-26 (UTC)

No let us not merger it. Information on Medical Education in Calicut can be just a mentioned on Medical Education in India.

No.Info on med education in calicut finding a paragraph (or a section)in Info on education in India is not right.--Sahodaran 03:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I'd support Nabla's idea of creating a page on Medical Education in India and then adding the content in this page to that. I feel that it has no real relevance in this article. Kaushik twin 06:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Middle and Secondary Level Education

Um... I just noticed that this section has only two words (Among the). Would anyone with the requisite info on this subject add some more content to this part, making it similiar perhaps to the section on primary education Kaushik twin 06:25, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Is 10+2+3 system applicable to whole India or just a specific state? What is the minimum age of a child to be admitted to school? The schooling as I understand, follows 4 years in primary, 3 years in middle school (if any), 3 years in high school. The children chooses (or gets forced) to continue in the same school to complete next 2 years and then chooses the degree college. Most chooses degree colleges in 11th year of study called FYJC.Npindia 23:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reseravation

The article contains one sided view of rervations.

tksbhat

Education_in_India#SC.2FSTs subsection contains one view (pro). Education_in_India#Criticism_of_Indian_Education_System section is meant to be criticism and therefore contains only anti viewpoint. So, it's not POV, you see -- both the viewpoints are included. utcursch | talk 07:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Education of India and Expenditure

In Democratic and Republic India, we give less attention on Primary Education and fund is utilised for Higher education and hence after 60 years of independence we have higher illiterate percentage than African Countries and particularly Nigeria and Middle East also.

vkvora 15:28, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intermediate College

I see a lot of school articles refer to themselves as "Intermediate College". How does this fit into the education system in India? John Vandenberg 00:47, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Very simply, its not a standard phrase any more. It used to refer to the +2 stage I referred to my recent update. - ----Anjela

[edit] Plagiarism

I've noticed that a lot of the material on the history of education in India is copied straight from an article at JSTOR (which is actually linked to in the article). This should be fixed. --Śiva 13:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Urban Middle Higher Education and Middle Class Bias

As some might have noticed, I edited the preschool/elementary education sections and edited some stuff elsewhere. My perception on reading it, however, is that the article shows a very strong urban and middle class slant which is a pity in a predominantly rural country like India. I was tempted to do a much more extensive rewrite, but felt it was not going to be tactful.

Does outdoor education really deserve a section?
The information in recent developments is neither recent or important. Thus, an NGO without a nationwide presence establishing five model schools is scarcely national encyclopedia worthy?
SC/ST Education. Any objections to editing it down and adding more information on the educational status of dalits in rural areas?
PG Classes in Correctional Homes. Hmms. Surely thats needs to go somewhere else?
Education after 1976 needs to be expanded.
Child Labour and education of children in slums needs to be fitted in some place.

--User: Anjela.Taneja 15:13, 08 September 2007

[edit] Huge drive from unpaid teachers in projects as CORO

India also has a huge project which includes teachers participating in education projects for children while not being payed. Look in this article and please include in the wikipedia article (as the scope of the project is rather great).

This system is also in line with the BRACeducation system (which also has low teacher wages). See BRACeducation low teacher wages (see page 32). Perhaps a seperate wikipedia page on this type of schooling may be made.

Thanks,

87.64.165.76 13:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirected article Primary Schooling in India

The article Primary Schooling in India was proposed for deletion. I have redirected it here instead. The history may have some useful information (or not). Cheers, Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 11:16, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Wrong data

This article needs to be verified. Data is not accurate. Eg: Literacy percentage given are wrong. Literacy rate in india is much less than what is claimed on this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.16.94 (talk) 07:46, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

That was vandalism. Fixed. utcursch | talk 11:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Primary Language

Shouldn't Hindi be added, as Hindi is more widely taught in schools thatn English? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IGNOU

Just before Pre-primery, where ICSE/CBSE/SSC/HSC/HSE is mentioned, why is IGNOU not mentioned? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)