Universal Secondary Education in India

This book offers a cutting-edge contribution on the importance of secondary education and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its growth in India. Secondary education, long neglected, faces countless challenges and will require tremendous financial resources, millions of additional trained teachers, and vast infrastructure in terms of buildings, laboratories, libraries, ICT facilities, etc. The book examines these critical issues, with particular reference to the situation in India. It analyses the status quo of secondary education and discusses the strategies and approaches needed in order to universalize it. Including 20 chapters authored by eminent scholars in the field and from across the country, this book gathers the outcomes of a seminar organized by the Council for Social Development on Universalization of Secondary Education. The target audience includes policymakers, practitioners, administrators, education planners, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators with an interest in the future of secondary education.

Auteur
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak is a former Vice-Chancellor and Professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, and currently an ICSSR National Fellow and Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Prof Tilak is an eminent economist of education. He has served on the research and teaching faculty of the University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Education, University of Virginia and Hiroshima University (Japan), and as a Visiting Professor of Economics at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. He was also on the research staff of the World Bank. Prof Tilak has authored/edited a dozen books and over 300 research papers in the areas of economics of education and development studies. He received the UGC's Swami Pranavananda Saraswati National Award for his outstanding scholarly research in education (1999), Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for distinguished research contributions to development studies (2003), the Inspirational Teacher of the Year Global Education Award (2012), and the Devang Mehta National Education Award for outstanding contributions to education (2015). Prof Tilak had the privilege of delivering a keynote address to a meeting of the Noble laureates in Barcelona in 2005. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

Contenu
Introduction

Jandhyala B G Tilak

Section-1

Secondary Education in India: Growth and Inequalities

1. Secondary Education in India

Madhumita Bandyopadhyay and Sunita Chugh

2. Push-out, not Drop-out: Youth and Secondary Schooling in India

Manabi Majumdar and Sangram Mukherjee

3. Secondary education in Maharashtra: Issues of Concern

Anuradha De and Meera Samson

Section-2

Determinants of Participation in Secondary Education

4. Tracking the Progress of a Child from Enrolment to Completion of Secondary Education in India

Deepak Kumar

5. Socio economic determinants of secondary education in India

Susmita Mitra

6. Who Completes Secondary Education in India: Examining Role of Individual and Household Characteristics

Nivedita Sarkar

7. Universal Secondary Education in India and Telugu States Prospects and Challenges

P. Prudhvikar Reddy, D. Sree Rama Raju and V. Nagi Reddy

Section-3

Equity, Quality and Justice in Secondary Education

8. Universal Secondary Education in India- Access, Equity and Social Justice

C. Sheela Reddy

9. Expanding Private Education Market and Parental Choice for Schools in India: Evidence from IHDS Data

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury

10. The Power Game: A Case Study of a Private School in Odisha

Amrita Sastry

11. Regional diversity, school leadership and quality of education in North Eastern States

N. Mythili

Section-4

Skill Development, Vocational Education and Employment

12. Elusive Vocational Education Programme: An Analysis of Trends in Indian Secondary School

Mona Sedwal

13. Missing Middle of Educated Unemployable: A Critical Perspective on Secondary Education in India

Bornali Bhandari, Charu Jain and Ajaya K Sahu

14. Shared Prosperity and Universalisation of Secondary Education

Arup Mitra

Section-5

Financing Secondary Education

15. Public Provisioning for Secondary Education in India: A Situation Assessment

Praveen Jha and Satadru Sikdar

16. Declining Public Funding and Increasing Private Expenditure in Neo-liberal Regime: Challenges Ahead for Universalization of Secondary Education

Narender Thakur

17. Financing and management of Secondary Education in Uttar Pradesh

Mohd Muzammil

Section-6

Questions for Discussion and Debate

18. Universalization of Secondary Education: Questions for Discussion and Debate

Rounaq Jahan