{"id":18458,"date":"2019-07-14T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18458"},"modified":"2019-07-14T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:52:18","slug":"low-student-teacher-ratio-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/low-student-teacher-ratio-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-teacher ratio in India is alarmingly low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>India drags behind numerous countries when it comes to university education student-teacher ratios.<\/strong> A report prepared by the government shows that the student-teacher ration of twenty-four to one (24:1) in India is the lowest compared to several other counties. Brazil and China have about nineteen students per one teacher (19:1), Britain has a ratio of sixteen to one (16:1), and Canada has managed to secure a teacher for every nine students.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These results show that <strong>the limited amount of teachers that are already in the system are overworked.<\/strong> This student to teacher ratio also raises <strong>questions about the quality of education and research teachers in India can provide.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The amount of students delegated per teacher in India at the moment is proof that there is a significant burden on faculty members who are taking up multiple pupils. This situation also means that <strong>every student gets less attention for their teachers as well.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teacher recruitment in India<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shortage in the faculty has gone up over time because of <strong>a rise in enrolment applications and a decrease in teacher recruitment in tertiary education institutes.<\/strong> The ministry\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/epsiindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AISHE-2017-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All India Survey on Higher Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> statistics show that even though the student admission rates had gone up from about thirty-two million (32.3m) in 2013 to thirty-six million (36.6m) in 2017, available teachers become fewer each year.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Statistics show that <strong>India\u2019s higher education sector is facing a deficit of more than half a million (0.5m) teachers.<\/strong> The report states that the country has more than six thousand (6,600) vacant posts and that such a deficiency harms the quality of teaching and research.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of teachers positions are not filled up as there is a significant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/why-is-indias-education-budget-still-low-after-the-improvement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lack of funding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across the educational system. In addition, many schools cannot afford to ensure that new faculty members will receive their long-term salaries. Just this summer, <strong>tertiary education institutions were required to fill up close to half a million (0.3m) positions in six months<\/strong>, which will pose a significant threat to university budgets. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal &#8216;Nishank&#8217; has accentuated the importance of filling up these teaching positions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India drags behind numerous countries when it comes to university education student-teacher ratios. A report prepared by the government shows that the student-teacher ration of twenty-four to one (24:1) in India is the lowest compared to several other counties. Brazil and China have about nineteen students per one teacher (19:1), Britain has a ratio of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23],"tags":[684,741,1347,1385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}