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Ashutosh Building of the University of Calcutta at the College Street campus The historic Presidency University at the College Street campus Jorasanko Thakur Bari where Rabindra Bharati University, a state university established in 1962, is located West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences is a legal education state university established in 2004
Summary by Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India; literacy rates as % of population.
Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal has played a pioneering role in the development of the modern education system in India. Western models of education came to India through this city. Many of the first schools and colleges were established by the missionaries and reformists.
The department is the nodal body which look after various aspects of school level educations for the state having specific tasks like text book selection, formation of board and councils (West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education), inspection, recruitment of teachers (Government)/ education staff, execution of projects, language policy and ...
In addition to these, private candidates can appear for examinations of either the CBSE, West Bengal boards and other state boards which conduct their courses in the city. Non-privileged children mainly attend government primary schools, if they attend school at all.
The table below shows the adult and youth literacy rates for India and some neighboring countries as complied by UNESCO in 2015. Adult literacy rate is based on the 15+ years age group, while the youth literacy rate is for the 15–24 years age group (i.e. youth is a subset of adults).
The West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education is the state government administered autonomous examining authority for affiliated and recognized madrasahs in West Bengal, India. [1] Perhaps among the oldest post-secondary boards in India, it is the only madrasah board that is recognized by the Government of India .
This is a list of districts in the Indian state of West Bengal ranked by literacy rate as per provisional data of 2011 census. [1]With a literacy rate of 96.26% (male 90.69% and female 96.54%), above the national average of 90.04%, as per the 2011 Census, West Bengal ranks 20th amongst the 36 states and union territories in India in terms of literacy rate.