Stepping Stones: Enhancing the quality of primary education

Jayant Kumar Nath +91 9503 802173 Jayant.kumar2015@sims.edu

Nitin Patial +91 9923 444982 Nitin.patial2015@sims.edu

Alok Maurya +91 9860927952 Alok.maurya2015@sims.edu

Akshita Shrivastav +91 7755901577 Akshita.shrivastav@sims.edu

Ankit Shrivastav +91 7755901660 Ankit.shrivastav2015@sims.edu

Executive Summary Key resources Key partners Value

proposition Model Resources

Implementation

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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Research Ken Robinson-

• Education kills creativity

Bunker Roy-

• Education for the poor not degree

Bill gates-

• Teacher feedback is important as is the teaching style

Daphine Balvier

• Creating a product which combines the things you don’t like and thing you love

Salman 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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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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