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Teachers get 80% of outlay, but standards in govt schools poor
Teachers get 80% of outlay, but standards in govt schools poor. Up to 80 per cent of India’s public expenditure on education is spent on teachers – salaries, training and learning material, according to a new six-state report.
Up to 80 per cent of India’s public expenditure on education is spent on teachers – salaries, training and learning material, according to a new six-state report. Yet, the quality of learning at Indian schools is falling, as IndiaSpend has reported, and India is short of teachers compared to other BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) nations, which have done far better at imparting literacy. This is how India’s education money is being spent, according to the PAISA 2015 Seminar (PAISA- Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions: Studies in Accountability), organised by the Accountability Initiative, a think tank: teachers - 80 per cent, children/management/school - five percent each.
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Despite 80 per cent of the Rs 5,86,085 crore ($94 billion) over 10 years going towards teachers and their training in the six states, learning outcomes are still worsening, making it clear that India is experiencing a major policy failure. Although physical infrastructure has grown, teachers play an important role, but as the case of Maharashtra indicates, if more than 90 per cent of primary teachers fail evaluation tests, recruitment and training policies are flawed. High spending did not guarantee better learning, although it did appear to be a factor. The data does show learning outcomes are better in private education, even if government expenditure per child is higher.
One crude fact about India’s education sector is that 282 million Indians are illiterate. Government policies ensured universal primary enrolment, but by the higher secondary level, enrolment drops to 52.2 per cent. This means a little more than half the population of that age will get a higher secondary education. With a literacy rate of 77 per cent, India lagged all the other BRICS nations, which have literacy rates above 90 per cent. All these countries have better student-teacher ratios. So, on the one hand, India grapples with poor quality of teachers, and on the other, has fewer teachers in comparison with countries that do a better job at education.
