Focus on dropouts, better schools

Hyderabad: Bringing back children to schools after the pandemic and empowering budget schools to ensure quality education is the big challenge ahead, experts said on Friday to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Teachers, students and educationists gathered in large numbers at the 'National Education Day' programme organised by the Association of Minority Educational Institutions, an umbrella body of different organizations working for the cause of education.
A discussion on re-enrolment of school dropouts and out of school children and role of budget schools was held to examine the post pandemic situation. Mohd Abdul Azeem, Secretary to Government, referred to the educational emergency being talked about these days. “It requires SOPs to ensure a safe and secure environment for reopening of schools. According to the UN report 2020, nearly 1.7 lakh learners across 190 countries were affected by the pandemic. What it meant was 94% of the world student population was impacted by Covid,” he said.
He called for front line educational catalysts on the lines of Covid front line warriors.