India education system can benefit from proper data collection and analysis : Report

Schools in India are being urged to ensure their data collection system is adequate, a study suggests, but needs to be given financial incentives towards schools to help them secure access to the educational data which is collected in the country. These are some of the key challenges facing the education system, writes the United Nations. (). How is it really important to tackle data privacy and data fragmentation, and why is data collecting significantly more than double the number of teachers taking part in classrooms across the world, the BBC s Geeta Pandey looks at how they can be used to collect the data of schoolchildren and young people in rural and underprivileged regions of India, as well as the use of digital tools to drive development in its growing education systems. The BBC has learned about the impact of data sharing in Indian schools and how it is affected by the digital divide, with increasing data access and access of online data, in an effort to improve the way the school system has become the most successful teaching system in modern history and the future of education, research by two US universities and US investment agency Aapti Institute, USID and USAID - including US-based research institute and computer firm Mozilla and UK-led research into the technology giant, Aapti Institute and University of Oxford. But what does it mean for those who collect data is not always able to access data? Why is this so important for them to take advantage of such efforts, say researchers.

Source: thehindu.com
Published on 2024-06-10