Solutions


 * Solutions**

1. Some key reasons why Indians lack access to education include the lack of civic facilities which hinder the travel of students to school, especially in rural areas where institutions of public education are few and far between. Also, the many Indians that have learning disabilities are almost ignored, as there are no provisions for them made by the government. Furthermore, the government stops providing free education after the age of 14, which prevents many underprivileged from attending institutions of higher education. Finally, Corruption in the educational system prevents funds from reaching their desired target.

Some of the actions already being taken to address the problems are, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan program set up by the government with the goal of educating all citizens. Secondly, NGOs are playing a large role in educating India’s population. There has recently been a movement lead by the Indian media, to educate and enlighten the public. Other possible solutions include better execution of very comprehensive objectives, by removing corruption in education by implementing new laws or a new body to oversee the allocation and execution of funds. (Manas Bajaj and Ankit Sud)

2. Indians lack of education because the government is not able to manage to have the amout of school needed and all the other variables needed in order to create a proper school. The government doesn’t use his resources efficiently, especially for the low rank caste in India. Because in some villages the road are not even accessible to go to school, parents and kids tend to not go to school , but instead decided to get marry and start working at a work at an early age. Some of the actions already being taken to address the problem are some NGO in India try to help these people whom can not afford much ,they try to convince the parents to send their children to school even though they don’t have much money. School is free.

However it is hard for some kids to help their parents at work and at the same time get a proper education. Most of them decide after 5th grade to drop out of school because of lack of money or other reasons.( parents tend to think school is useless because the kids don’t bring any money home). Some other possible solutions would be to rebuild the road to go to school provide help for the family ( low caste). The government should give extra money or increase their income in order for them to be able to send their kids to school both girls and boys. Although school is free and available to all the government doesn’t provide books, uniforms, transportation and otther variables affect the decisions of the parents. (Agathe Turpin)

3. There are many factors that contribute to the lack of access to education. These include availability of good quality education, the location of the school, lack of availability of good quality teachers, and poverty in several rural areas throughout India. Today there is an availability of better quality education than before partly because of the government’s initiative in setting up schools for those who cannot afford to attend relatively expensive schools. Another factor is the location of these schools. For example in villages the children to walk for at least three to three and a half kilometers, due to this some parents do not allow their children to attend school. The deficiency of good quality teachers in schools also contributes to this problem. Since the number of children per class is very high, whereas the number of teachers allocated per class is very low, the students do not receive as good an education and don not get any individual attention. Some actions have already been taken to address these problems. NGOs play a very important role as they have created education programs which have helped to a large extent. The Indian government has also taken the initiative to open schools such that it is easier for children to access education in rural and urban areas. Lastly, parents are realizing the importance of education for their children and hence are encouraging them to go to school. (Ambika Lall and Priyanka Mysore)

4. Even though the caste system has been abolished by the government, the values of the people whose families used to be of the lower caste are incredibly low. Others still mistreat them. In India money is a great problem and therefore many students can not afford a proper education because in public school teacher often never show up. To this day the girls still have a disadvantage in education for their families believe that the girls are to stay at home and help out with the house work.

Many people are struggling hard to abolish the caste system completely, meaning in their heart as well. Also many people are going around explaining to the people living in rural areas that women are to be educated and that they aren’t there to serve. A lot of groups such as NGO’s are helping woman and children to gain education.

Improving the public schools and not just talking about it. Forcing children to go to school, giving a given amount of years to attend school (e.g. Germany children need to go to school for 9 years). Combining religion and education. (Gabriela Dziki and Kerstin Freudenhagen)

5. India is a nation where due to the lack of literate and educated people do not have sufficient educators in their country. By seeing this fact, it can be seen that in India, the lack of educators is greatly affecting the amount and/or quality of education thus meaning a poor-quality education or no education at all. Even though the government is trying to balance out this scale of educators and students, India’s enormous population is the main factor which counter balances this fragile balance. Even in vocational training institutes, the same problem is occurring, while more and more people are pouring in the facilities, the more the facilities have trouble in finding enough trainees to occupy the people. Currently, the actions taken up by the government to solve this education-deprivation is increasing the number of trainees in the vocational education and training facilities. This method is surely necessary and is one of the factors that could solve the problem except the fact that it is currently a seriously hard task to actually find people in India to train these masses. Another action being taken is increasing the numbers of vocational training institutes. This method is mainly thought out by the government so that the rural areas of India could actually have these kinds of facilities but is currently seen as not being very effective to this point. Currently, the vocational facilities have a very high price for the people who are trying to enter it and the people who do not have enough money are suffering from this deprivation of education and thus, it could be seen that decreasing the price would most probably solve the problem of decreasing the sheer numbers of the educationally-deprived people in India. An other solution for this issue is giving a more in-depth education for the people so that they could actually learn not the basics, but the skills needed to actually become even more successful in the future instead of becoming a permanent worker for the rest of their lives.

6. Some key reasons why children are denied an education, are that a great deal of these children’s parents are undedicated themselves and hold begging in higher regard than and education. Also, children who are forced to do house hold chores and or forced labor/prostitution are denied an education. A great deal of parents also has drug/alcohol addiction, so the children are forced to look after themselves as well as possibly a younger sibling.

Certain individuals from Non Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), are recruiting these children, where ever they can find them. After recruiting these kids, the individuals work hard to provide a stable education for these kids as well as stable house-hold, food, and family- Something which will benefit them. To gain more awareness, These individuals are doing their best to spread the word through any kind of advertisement(s) possible.

Some possible solutions for improving the work, which NGO’s have already begun, is possibly working harder to improve the quantity of fundraising, as it can never be fully 100%. Fundraising as well as advertisements could be heightened, as more awareness will not hurt. If possible, finding a way to get first-rate teachers, who want to teach for the sake of teaching-not for the pay check- into the respected NGO schools. This will improve the means of education to a fair amount, by means of steadiness and Quality. Another way to improve the education, given by NGO’s- is to come up with a “Universal System” so every child, no matter where they are, receives the SAME Quality of education. (Justin Martin and Monica Salgaonkar)