Contemporary India and Education – Unit 5

This course explains the challenges in the implementation of the RTE Act 2009, Right to Education and Universal Access: Issues of Universal enrolment, Universal retention, Universal success. This course describes the Issues of quality and equity-(The above to be discussed with specific reference to physical, economic, social, and cultural access, particularly to girl children and weaker sections as well as differently-abled children). This includes School safety, Equality of Educational Opportunity: Meaning of equality and constitutional provisions, Prevailing nature and forms of inequality, including dominant and minor groups and related issues. This describes the Inequality in schooling: Public-private schools, rural-urban Schools, single teachers’ schools, and many other forms of inequalities in school systems and the processes leading to disparities.