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Incremental innovation using ICT: How an education operation in Bihar, India inspired the online application and admission systems
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Effectively integrating technology into large-scale educational systems is a challenging endeavor. However, incremental innovations – where technology is used to substitute routine tasks – are more likely to succeed given their non-disruptive nature.
One such smaller-scale innovation was led by the Directorate of Research and Training (DR&T), Department of Education, Government of Bihar (India), with the aim to transform the application and admission process in teacher education institutions across the state. There are 66 teacher education institutions in Bihar offering pre-service teacher training programs for primary schools. Each year, these institutions attract more than 300,000 applications from youth aspiring to become teachers; the annual number only increasing every year. These applications used to be on paper and processing them posed several administrative challenges. After receiving applications by post, administrators would need to engage all teaching and non-teaching staff to transcribe the information from application forms into physical registers, drawing teachers and principals away from their core academic tasks. Manually copying the information and calculating applicants’ scores and merit lists used to be fraught with errors, leading to complaints. Applications would often be lost in transit or reach the institutions after the submission deadline. There were also allegations of corruption that the administrators had no means to verify.
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