Ranjekar, Dileep
(2016)
Brand: government school.
Learning Curve (25).
05-07.
Abstract
When Azim Premji Foundation made a fundamental
decision to work with rural Government schools
and focus on Government School Education System
(as opposed to individual geographies or schools) it
was fully aware of the several challenges that exist
in the Government schooling system. In many ways,
it was a natural decision for the Foundation.
Among the various ways that we evaluated to
contribute to social change, we found education
as the most powerful way. Within the education
domain, we had several options such as higher
education, technical education, management
education etc. We realized that school education is
where it all begins therefore it was a natural decision
to work with school education as a priority.Government schools are required to deal with this
massive disadvantage – which is never factored
in by the general public. Unlike in most private
schools, the focus in the Government schools is not
on merely preparing the children to perform better
in the 10th standard examinations.
Indian Government school system is the largest
in the world and has the unique reach of having a
primary school within a kilometre of each village. In
a nation where infrastructure development (roads,
electricity, and water supply) have lagged behind
terribly, this reach of education to all sections of
society was a tremendous achievement.
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