India has always been a learning hub since ancient times
. For a society that always laid major emphasis on education, India has a very sound educational infrastructure. This has always been one of the major contributing factors to India's global success. School education system has been split into three major parts: Primary level, Secondary level and High school level. The Primary level includes Kindergarten, Preparatory classes. The secondary level includes classes from Std. 1st to Std. 8th, while the High school level consists of classes from Std. 8th to 10th.
Since India is a huge country with so many states, every state has its own education board to manage and regulate its own education sector. Some of the prominent boards are CBSE, ICSE etc. The number of school going students is huge and the number of schools to accommodate them is not sufficient. In order to meet this demand Indian government has allowed private educational societies to open their schools. The methods adopted by the schools have paved the way for more practical based education rather than rte learning which has been a bane of Indian education. Unfortunately most of the schools are only in for money making purpose and this has affected the quality of education.
School Education system is facing some serious issues which need immediate attention. The quality of curriculum is also not upto the standard which is expected to read a student for global stage. The quality of teaching is not upto the mark due to lack of required skills in the manpower. Another problem is that although the student clears his schooling, he/she is found to be good at only theoretical aspect rather than the practical aspect of the knowledge gained in schools. The competition is so intense that schools only aim for glory and laurels thus ignoring their promise of attention to individual student. The number of school drop-outs is also a cause of concern which leaves the available manpower resource underutilized. Compared to other major countries like Brazil, China the number of students who have undergone atleast basic schooling in India is very less.
On the brighter side, there are initiatives being taken to revive the school education in India. The training methodology is gradually moving towards giving more hands on experience rather than just bookish knowledge. People are being made aware of benefits of education for betterment of their own lives. Various programs have been created for school drop outs to bring them back to the schools.