Mode of Education

“The Indian education system encompasses pre-school, primary school, secondary school, higher secondary school, and higher education (graduation and post-graduation). Although primary school is compulsory, this has been difficult to achieve in practice and India is still struggling to raise its literacy rates.

Through school, students are taught a uniform set of subjects including languages, math, sciences, and social sciences. Higher education in India provides an opportunity to specialize in a field and include

s technical schools (such as the Indian Institutes of Technology), colleges, and universities.

Higher education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent streams with each stream monitored by an apex body, indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and funded by the state governments. The important universities are called Central Universities and these are maintained by the Union Government. The private sector also has a strong presence in Indian higher education. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), National Law School, Bangalore; All India Institute of Medical Sciences; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are renowned for their superior standards of education and compete with the best in the world.” – As adapted from http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/IN-education.htm



Funding for education mainly comes from 3 levels: Federal, state, and local. There are three different types of education: public, private or home-schooled. Home-schooled is a less explored approach, even though it is legal in India.

According to statistics, 80% of all school is government school. This naturally makes the national government the main provider of education. However, because of the poor quality of education in government school, 27% of Indian children are privately-educated. Private school offers a more extensive modules and extra curriculum activities such as science fairs. The y also have a better student to teacher ratio as compared to government school(1:31 to 1:37).

Female education
Women has a lower illiteracy rate when put side by side the opposite gender. Most female student drop out at an earlier age because they are either financially incapable or because India’s tradition does not require that women be highly educated, their sole existence is to care for their solely their husband and family.