Indian Education Repository

Educational Database for Policy Formulation Status Report Part 1 (Jalaluddin Report)

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

1985

The report includes a paper on educational statistics and assessments that presents an analysis of previous education commissions and policies based on case studies, research findings, reviews and evaluation reports to examine strategies like 10+2 structure, vocationalisation, teacher training, provision of infrastructure and decentralisation. A mix of 18 different documents, case studies and research papers on educational policy in India, it lists areas of “success and also of failures, both from the point of view of coverage, drop-out and stagnation, quality and relevance to the productive functions and socio-economic relevance, indicating inter-alia, the diagnosis of the present situation”.