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SUMMARY:The Myth of Teacher Shortage in India
DESCRIPTION:19 October 2021\, 12.30-1.30pm UK time\nCEID Webinar \nPresente
 r: Professor Geeta Gandhi Kingdon\nChair: Professor Moses Oketch\nJoin he
 re\nThis paper examines the widespread perception in India that the countr
 y has an acute teacher shortage of about one million teachers in public el
 ementary schools\, a view repeated in India’s National Education Policy 
 2020. Using official DISE data\, we show that there is hardly any net teac
 her deficit in the country since there is roughly the same number of surpl
 us teachers as the number of teacher vacancies. Secondly\, we show that me
 asuring teacher requirements after removing the estimated fake students fr
 om enrolment data greatly reduces the required number of teachers and incr
 eases the number of surplus teachers\, yielding an estimated net surplus o
 f about 342\,000 teachers. Thirdly\, we show that if we both remove fake e
 nrolment and also make a suggested hypothetical change to the teacher allo
 cation rule to adjust for the phenomenon of emptying public schools (which
  has slashed the national median size of public schools to a mere 64 stude
 nts\, and rendered many schools ‘tiny’)\, the estimated net teacher su
 rplus is about 764\,000 teachers. Fourthly\, we highlight that if governme
 nt does fresh recruitment to fill the supposed nearly one-million vacancie
 s as promised in the National Education Policy 2020\, the already modest n
 ational mean pupil teacher-ratio of 22.8 would fall to 15.9\, at a permane
 nt fiscal cost of nearly Rupees 480 billion (USD 6.6 billion) per year in 
 2017-18 prices\, which is higher than the individual GDPs of 56 countries 
 in that year. The paper highlights the major economic efficiencies that ca
 n result from an evidence-based approach to teacher recruitment and deploy
 ment policies.\n&nbsp\;\nGeeta Gandhi Kingdon is Professor (part time) at
  the UCL Institute of Education\, where she holds the Chair of Education a
 nd International Development.  Her research interests are in economics of
  education in developing countries\, particularly in South Asia and Africa
 . She has investigated school effectiveness\, gender in education\, labour
  market outcomes of education\, and the political economy of education. Ap
 art from publishing research and opinion editorials\, and serving on the e
 ditorial boards of academic journals\, she advises governments and donor a
 gencies on education related matters.  In 2013\, Professor Kingdon was a
 warded an Honorary Doctorate by Kingston University London for “her outs
 tanding contributions to education and development". Professor Kingdon al
 so works as President of a non-profit registered society school in India.
  
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