Why Fewer Children May Enrol In Private Schools In 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for learning, experts say, but it has also shown how rapidly technology can be deployed and relationships between schools and families transformed. As we head into the new year with its promise of vaccines and a possible end to the pandemic, experts suggest that schools must re-open differently this time, with more parent-teacher interaction and a gradual, staged re-opening for various grades. Bootcamps to help children understand core concepts quickly would be useful. Moreover, the system must support schools and families in maintaining the relationships they built during the pandemic, as well as the wider use of education technology that the pandemic necessitated. Our story also examines whether the National Education Policy can be implemented for schools in 2021

Why Fewer Children May Enrol In Private Schools In 2021

Shreya Khaitan

December 29, 2020

"I understand everything I am taught in school and what I don't, didi next-door helps me understand," she says

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But she couldn't access online classes, between March 24 and August 2020, when the government school in Dorasar, Rajasthan was shut like all other schools in the country, because of the COVID-19-induced lockdown

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More than 80% of parents of govt school students said education was "not delivered" during the lockdown, because families did not have digital devices or access to digital learning

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