- 17 Jan, 2024
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ASER 2023: Over 30% 18-year-olds not enrolled in schools; more students in Humanities
“Females are less likely to be enrolled in the STEM stream (28.1 per cent) than males (36.3 per cent)”
The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) survey report by Pratham Foundation revealed that overall 86.8 per cent of 14-18-year-olds are enrolled in an educational institution.
The report, released today, further highlighted small gender gaps in enrollment, but notable differences are visible by age. Older youth are more likely to be not enrolled. The percentage of youth not enrolled is 3.9 per cent for 14-year-old youth and 32.6 per cent for 18-year-olds. Last year’s report showed that the enrollment levels of children in the age bracket of 6 to 14 years had gone from 96.6 per cent in 2010 to 96.7 per cent in 2014 and 97.2 per cent in 2018 to 98.4 per cent in 2022.
Interestingly, in Class 11 or higher, more than half of the students are enrolled in the Arts/Humanities stream (55.7 per cent), followed by STEM (31.7 per cent) and Commerce (9.4 per cent). Females are less likely to be enrolled in the STEM stream (28.1 per cent) than males (36.3 per cent).
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a nationwide citizen-led household survey that provides a snapshot of the status of children’s schooling and learning in rural India. First implemented in 2005, the ‘basic’ ASER survey was conducted annually until 2014 and switched to an alternate-year cycle in 2016. The ‘basic’ ASER collects information about enrollment in pre-school and school for children in the age group of 3 to 16, and assesses children aged 5 to 16 one-on-one to understand their foundational reading and arithmetic abilities.