On the occasion of World Teacher’s Day, "State of the Education Report (SOER) -2021 of India-" No Teachers, No Class" has been released by UNESCO.
Key-points
This report is published annually by UNESCO.
This is the third edition of the Education Report.
This year, the report focuses on the theme “teachers, teaching and educating teachers”, highlighting the challenge of teaching.
The report seeks to provide insight into key aspects of the teaching profession and provides a profile of 9.6 million teaching staff.
The report also highlights the challenges of a complex system of teaching and their professional development.
The findings of this report were prepared on the basis of the data obtained from:
Periodic Labor Force Survey (PLFS)
Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE)
Key-findings
As per the report, there are close to 1.2 lakh schools in India. It accounts for 7.15 percent of 11.51 lakh schools. Of this, 89 percent are in rural areas.
51% of fotal schools are employing 95 lakh teachers.
According to the Report's findings, India needs 11.16 more teachers to address the current shortage.
Countries with the highest percentage of schools with single teachers are