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Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education

SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

  • Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education
  • Ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education 
  • Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education
  • Increase the number of youth and adults with relevant skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
  • Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training 
  • ensure to achieve improved literacy and numeracy among children and adults 
  • Ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development
    • Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
    • Expand globally the number of scholarships 
    • Increase the supply of qualified teachers

Activities Undertaken

  • Providing free of cost, quality holistic education to over 80,000 tribal Students.
  • Implementing English Access program in collaboration with the US Department of State, to improve English with focus on speaking, listening, writing and reading skills of students.
  • Providing Smart Classrooms in collaboration with Oracle, to facilitate interactive learning.
  • Implementing a ‘Mother-Tongue Based Multi-Lingual Education’ (MTBMLE) program to reduce language inequalities.
  • Running an online campaign ‘#Why Literacy Matters’ for empowering society and increasing awareness of the importance of literacy for all.
  • Sending monthly consignments of books and school supplies to students in more than 30 districts of Odisha during Covid-19 related closures to ensure continuity of education
  • Using various online / virtual medium to conduct classes in addition to broadcasting an hour of classes per standard on satellite television (Kalinga TV)
    School of Comparative Tribal Languages and Literature, KISS-DU facilitates research and capacity-building initiatives for creating pedagogy and MTBMLE-based TLMs.
  • As an endeavor to protect, preserve and promote indigenous languages, KISS-DU has introduced language clubs, and established Centre for Indigenous Languages and Narratives.
  • Teacher Training for capacity building under the ERASMUS+ Programme.
  • Establishment of Tribal Advisory Council and inclusion of Professors of Practice and Professors Emeritus.
  • Introduced unique curricula with a focus on tribal culture in seven innovative Schools.

Research focused on SDG 4

  1. Education and Capacity Building
  2. Bridging the Educational gap
  3. Integrating indigenous knowledge in curriculum
  4. Teacher Training and Development
  5. Use of Technology in Tribal Education
  6. Multilingual Education
  7. Early childhood education in Tribal Communities
  8. Impact of Nutrition on Learning Outcomes
  9. Girls’ Education in Tribal Areas 
  10. Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities
  11. Role of Community Participation in Education
  12. Impact of Migration on Education
  13. Vocational Education and Skill Development
  14. Gender-Sensitive Pedagogy
  15. Impact of Government Policies on Tribal Education
  16. Learning Outcomes and Assessment in Tribal Schools

4.3 – Lifelong learning opportunities

4.3.1 Public resources (lifelong learning)

4.3.2 Public events (lifelong learning)

4.3.3 Vocational training events (lifelong learning)

4.3.4 Education outreach activities beyond campus

4.3.5 Lifelong learning access policy

News and Events on SDG4