HYDERABAD: While private schools and junior colleges are seeing a decline in admissions during the current academic year, enrolment in government schools and colleges has improved by a huge margin during the academic year 2021-22. This year, admissions in government schools rose by over a lakh to reach 27.5 lakh students, while in government junior colleges 1,05,090 students enrolled in intermediate first year.
“After the government started English medium schools in 2017-18 academic year, the admissions in government schools have started seeing an upward trend as admissions improved by about 50,000 per academic year. This year, however, because of Covid-19 and schools remaining physically closed, the number has gone up by about 1.14 lakh,” said Chava Ravi, a government teacher and general secretary, United Teachers Federation. He, however, said that the admissions might go down a little as the state is planning to resume physical classes from September 1.
Same is the case with junior colleges as well, as they too are anticipating that the number of admissions might slightly decrease after they provide the delete option. “While about 86,000 students used to join government colleges every year, this year over 1.05 lakh students have joined till date. However, after giving delete options, the numbers slightly decrease every year and the same might repeat this year as well,” said an official from the intermediate board. - Nirupa Vatyam
After the government started English medium schools in 2017-18 academic year, the admissions in government schools improved by about 50,000 per academic year. This year, the number has gone up by about 1.14 lakh
