1. Stepping Stones: Enhancing the
quality of primary education
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2. Executive Summary
Key resources Key partners Value
proposition
Model Resources
Implementation
Key activites
Costs Channels
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3. Approach
• Approach
• Research
• Solution
• Implementation
• Resources
• Channels
• Costs
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4. Facts
• 58% of Indian children do not complete primary education*
• ASER report points there is a serious flaw in rural education*
• Remote parts of the country has the least access to education
• Education that’s being provided is not of the best quality*
• Proper environment for the education is not available in most schools
• Need to bring about change is need of hour - Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the
Right to Education Act 2010 as well as the Mid Day Meals Scheme have
worked wonders with little improvement
* Refer Appendix
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5. Research
Ken Robinson-
• Education kills creativity
Bunker Roy-
• Education for the poor not degree
Bill gates-
• Teacher feedback is important as is the teaching style
Daphine Balvier
• Creating a product which combines the things you don’t like and thing you love
Salman Khan
• Creating mass collaborated education in the modern world
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6. Solution
Giving access of technology to the primary students
and enable them to learn through discussion within a
group, as its believed that true education is in form of
knowledge that cant be thought.
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7. Implementation
• Volunteers moving to public school
• One two hours of classes daily
• Bringing all the technological equipment's
• Engaging the kids and introducing the English and computer education
• Making groups of children and letting them learn by collaboration
• Learning from the youngsters in the process
• Overcoming the gap between rich and poor
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8. Resources
• Initially government can give the funds
• NGO’s
• CSR activities
• College volunteers
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9. Channels
• Advertisements for the volunteers on TV , Print media, Social websites
• Making direct channels of communication between volunteers and
students
• Technological aspects- Laptops , tablets and free internet access for the
schools with lesser opportunities
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10. Cost
• Initial cost have to be burnt by the government
• Companies as part of CSR activities can donate laptops and tablets
• Travelling costs of the volunteers have to taken in account
• Plus provision for a sustained model of education and investment in the
future on this new revolutionized quality enhancement in primary
education
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12. Appendix
• http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
• http://www.asercentre.org/education/India/status/p/143.html
• http://www.ssa.nic.in/
• http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-common/census_data_2001.html
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