Problems of secondary education in india

1. PROBLEMS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
IN INDIA
PRESENTATION
ON

2. INTRODUCTION
Secondary education spreads over the age 15-18 years
and serves as a link between the elementary and higher
education, and plays a very important role in this respect.
There are several commissions have been formulated for
improving the quality of secondary education in India
after independence. But still there are numerous major
problems existing in secondary education because of
enormous rate of increasing of population in India.

3. PROBLEMS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
Very Less Enrolment in Secondary Education

4. Toptenstate/Utinhighestdrop-rateatsecondarylevel(2014-15)
 Drop Out Rate is Comparatively Very High
At elementary level At secondary level
8.16% 17.21%

5. Insufficient fund
[2013-2014]
Gender disparity
Total Fund in Education(GDP) In Secondary Education
3.87% 0.96%
GER of boys GER of girls
45% 28%

6. Inappropriate curriculum
Out Dated curriculum
Theoretical in nature
Lack of plurality in textbook
Less emphasis on co-curricular activities
Monotonousness in curriculum
Absence of gender friendly curriculum

7. Poor Administration
• Untrained and unskilled teacher
• Least follow council guidelines
• Lack of carrier guidance
• Poor infrastructure facilities
• Privatization of education
• Inappropriate pupil-teacher ratio
• Lack of resources
• Poor status of teacher
• Lack of ICT based learning

8. Inappropriate Evaluation System
• Outdated assessment system
• Lack of flexibility in assessment
• Less relevance to effective assessment
• More emphasis on summative assessment instead of
formative assessment
• More emphasis on cognitive aspects of evaluation

9. Miscellaneous
• Rote memorizing
• More emphasis on English language
• Lack of facilities to improve personality
• Lack of participation by all stakeholder in education
• Lack of inculcation of constitutional value
• Lack of inculcation moral value
• Absence of Inclusive education
• Absence of vocational education

10. Conclusion
Over time, secondary schooling facilities improved to a significant level
but still there are a few areas of concern like Schooling facilities to a
large number of habitations were not available. Government schools
had lower percentage of buildings than the schools under the private
managements. So far as the investment on education is considered,
secondary education has never been the priority area of investment. In
order to meet the challenge of Universalisation of Secondary
Education, there is a need for a paradigm shift in the conceptual
design of secondary education. The guiding principles in this regard
are; Universal Access, Equality and Social Justice, Relevance and
Development and Curricular and Structural Aspects. Universalisation
of Secondary Education gives opportunity, to move towards equity.

11. References
• Dr. Priti Chaudhari journal ” Secondary Education in
India: Issues and Concerns”
• http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/7540
8/8/08_chapter%203.pdf
• National curriculum framework 2005