Domain
Education & Skills
13 sectors within this
Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE)
Education and care for children aged roughly 3 to 6, delivered through both Anganwadi centres and school-attached pre-primary sections. NEP 2020 brought this stage formally into the school system's foundational stage.
2 problems
Foundational & Ongoing Learning Outcomes
Whether children actually acquire reading and arithmetic at the grade these are taught, and whether learning lost during school closures has been recovered.
4 problems
School Access, Enrolment & Retention
Who is in school at all, who leaves, and at which stage — separate from what children learn once they are there.
3 problems
Teachers & Teaching Workforce
Recruitment, deployment, qualification and distribution of school teachers — largely governed by state service rules rather than by schools themselves.
4 problems
School Infrastructure
The physical and digital conditions of the roughly 14.7 lakh schools captured by UDISE+, and the gap between a facility being present and being functional.
1 problem
Digital Education & Digital Divide
Household and individual access to devices and connectivity for learning — the demand side of the digital divide, as distinct from what schools themselves have.
1 problem
Student Health, Nutrition & Wellbeing
The physical and mental health of school and college students, including nutritional surveillance and examination-related distress.
2 problems
Vocational Education & Skilling
The skilling system under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the ITI network, and the transition from education into work. Carries the strongest audit evidence in the domain.
7 problems
Higher Education — Access & Affordability
Who reaches higher education at all, measured chiefly through the Gross Enrolment Ratio in AISHE.
2 problems
Higher Education — Quality, Faculty & Research
Faculty establishment, regulatory oversight and research capacity in universities and premier central institutions.
4 problems
Education Governance & Regulation
Regulatory oversight of schooling, including the state's relationship with private schools, and the reliability of the data systems used to govern the sector.
2 problems
Education Finance
Public spending on education by the Union and the states, and the gap between what is allocated and what is spent.
1 problem
Centre-State & Federal Governance of Education
Education sits on the Concurrent List. This sector covers the constitutional and fiscal relationship between the Union and the states in governing it.
1 problem
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