OpenLinks Foundation

We seek to improve quality of education by supporting and motivating teachers. Teachers are they key for implementing education reforms. Yet teachers are most burdened, least supported and least celebrated. Teachers spend only 19% of their time on teaching and teaching-related activities. Meanwhile the rest of their time is spent on non-teaching core activities (over 42%), as well as school management and other education department related work (38%) as per the report by the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA). How do we identify areas for change and impact? We are working with government data to understand the possible interventions and how it can simplify and save time for teachers. Quality of education is also dependent on the performance of the education management. Just the Pune district has over 3,600 govt primary schools in rural areas. These require a large management apparatus cluster heads, block heads and district education officer...