Nature of Access to Higher Education in India: Emerging Pattern of Social and Spatial Inequalities in Educational Opportunities

2021 ◽  
pp. 345-369
Author(s):  
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Emerging Pattern

scholarly journals Compensatory Policies Attending Equality and Inequality in Mexico Educational Practice among Vulnerable Groups in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
René Pedroza Flores ◽  
Guadalupe Villalobos Monroy ◽  
Ana María Reyes Fabela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Mexican Population ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
And Gender

<p>This paper presents an estimate of the prevalence of social inequality in accessing higher education among vulnerable groups in Mexico. Estimates were determined from statistical data provided by governmental agencies on the level of poverty among the Mexican population. In Mexico, the conditions of poverty and vulnerability while trying to access better standards of living as well as educational inequality continue to grow at an alarming rate. The number of poor (extreme and moderate) and vulnerable people (according to income and social need) increased from 2008 through 2010 dramatically. The number of people in this situation went from 89.9 million to 90.8 million, which represents 80.64% of the total Mexican population. Only 19.36% of the population is not considered poor or vulnerable.</p><p>The access to higher education is not distributed uniformly throughout the Mexican youth since they belong to different social and economic strata: the least developed regions carry the largest share. Consequently, educational opportunities are unequally distributed mainly across age and gender factors. A distribution imbalance is also found with regard to gender throughout the population observed and analyzed: indigenous females have a significantly higher risk of not having access to higher education than males.</p>

Washington View: Lessons from Benjamin Franklin

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional

Historian Nick Bunker’s Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity shows that young Franklin benefited from a childhood with an ambitious and loving family, access to educational opportunities, and free time to explore. Maria Ferguson considers how those lessons might apply to contemporary childhoods. From a policy perspective, Franklin’s childhood depended on strong early childhood education, access to higher education, and social and emotional learning. In all three areas, positive steps are being made, although progress is slow.

scholarly journals Access to Higher Education: An Instrument for Fair Societies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaële Goastellec ◽  
Jussi Välimaa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
Comprehensive Knowledge

Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument of governance at the interface of two processes: social stratification and the territorialisation of politics. Access to HE has remained embedded in these large structural processes even though HE has expanded from a highly elitist institution into mass education systems with equity of educational opportunities having become a desirable goal across societies. Analysing these processes helps understand the complex mechanisms producing inequalities in HE today, which are brought together by the ten articles composing this special issue. Tacking stock of how inequalities in access are produced in different continents, countries, HE Institutions, applying to different social groups though evolving mechanisms, these articles document the importance of contrasting methodological and theoretical approaches to produce comprehensive knowledge on this sensitive issue for democratic societies.

Higher Education Sector in India: Issues and Imperatives

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-286
Author(s):  
P. Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Education In India ◽  
High Standards ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

Higher education in India is undergoing rapid changes. The challenges ahead are multifaceted and multidimensional. Though the data show a massive growth in the number of students' enrollment in colleges/universities, holistic view reveals that still only a meager of the total population has access to higher education. Globalization and privatization are imposing new challenges but the nations are still entangled in solving the basic problems of accessibility to higher education for all. In the wake of the transition from elitist to mass education, universities worldwide are under pressure to enhance access and equity, on the one hand, and to maintain high standards of quality and excellence, on the other. Today the notion of equity not only implies greater access to higher education, but also opportunities for progress. In recent debates on higher education, the notions of equity and access go beyond minority to diversity. Affirmative action, too, has become race-exclusive and gender-neutral.

scholarly journals Women’s Access to Higher Education in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Sowjanya S. Shetty M.
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
National Development ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Women In Higher Education ◽  
Education In India

Human capital is the most precious of all recourses which is core for the development of a nation. Higher education is regarded as the basis for the foundation for human development. It has constant positive impact on development as they help in reducing unemployment and poverty which are hurdle in the path of Economic development. Higher education enhances people’s capacity to work and their opportunities to work; promoting innovation ensures work satisfaction and also increases productivity there by contributing to national development. Women frame an indispensable human capital for enhancing economic power of a nation. It is rather unfortunate that women, powerful human resource constituting half of India’s total population and yet the country has one of the biggest gender gap in the world (101 in 136 Countries). This mirrors the status of women in India and gender discrimination in all aspects of life – education, economic activity and empowerment. The representation of women in higher education management validate the the fact that half of the human resource is not optimally utilized. Progress of a society is possible only when its citizens are educated, dynamic, resourceful, enterprising, responsible and so forth. Without such citizens, development of a country can hardly be achieved in any field. This paper attempts to study specifically the major factors affecting enrollment of women in higher education in India.

scholarly journals Inclusive Higher Education in India in the Age of Neo-liberalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Manas Behera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Driven System ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Liberal Approach

Education is now considered a pre-condition in all societies, particularly in the developing societies, for inclusive development and to fight different inequalities. This can only be possible if access to higher education is based on equity, and a public-funded education system can ensure this. The paper is based on qualitative research and analyses the changes in the higher education system in India from a largely public-funded education system towards a commercial, profit-driven system. The policy shifts are analyzed from comparative and historical perspectives. The neo-liberal approach to education facilitates commercialization, leading to the exclusion of the poor from the higher education system and defeating the constitutional goals of building an inclusive democratic society. The functioning of democracy is also dependent on education as it creates citizens and empowers the marginalized to enter into the democratic system, thus legitimizing the state. The paper concludes that the neo-liberal paradigm of development is contradictory to inclusive education and inclusive development as it commoditizes education.

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