Undoing learning loss from Covid most urgent

Of the schemes “driving” the NEP 2020 goals, the survey included the PM-SHRI scheme.

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Education sector bustling with transformation led by NEP 2020, says survey (File Photo)

Pointing at “the gap between class standard and learning level” having widened since Covid, the Economic Survey states that “improving learning outcomes and undoing the Covid-induced learning loss is more urgent than ever.”

It refers to data from the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 to point out a drop in student performance. In comparison to the NAS 2017, student performance underwent a “significant drop in NAS 2021,” it states, adding that Class 10 scores decreased by 13.4% in Mathematics, 18.6% in Science, and 9.1% in Social Science, while Class 3 scores decreased by 3.9% in Language, 4.7% in Mathematics, and 4.4% in Environmental Studies.

“The education sector is bustling with the across-the-board transformation led by the NEP 2020, which is expected to yield Foundational Literacy and Numeracy for every child passing the third standard in the near future,” stated the survey.

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Of the schemes “driving” the NEP 2020 goals, the survey included the PM-SHRI scheme. With vocational education receiving “focused attention” under NEP, exposure of skill education to upper primary students has been approved for 1,08,418 schools for FY 2024-25.

On higher education front, the survey refers to an “acceleration in total enrolment coupled with rising enrolment equity over the past eight years.” Total enrolment in higher education was at 4.33 crore in FY 2021-22, up from 3.42 crore in FY 2014-15, according to All India Survey on Higher Education report for 2021-22.

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