The Die is Cast(e): The Debate on Backward Caste/Class Quotas, 1990 and 20061

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZOYA HASAN
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Indian Policy ◽  
Policy Debates

This chapter discusses the controversy generated by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's decision to extend reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher education. It looks at two issues that have dominated Indian policy debates with regards to reservations for OBCs. The first issue is about whether caste is an indicator of disadvantage, while the second issue pertains to the conception of backwardness. The chapter shows that many issues still remain unresolved, such as the position of the more affluent segments and the position of minorities.

English-medium teaching in Korean higher education: policy debates and reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyong Byun ◽  
Huijung Chu ◽  
Minjung Kim ◽  
Innwoo Park ◽  
Suhong Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Korean Higher Education

scholarly journals Contemporary Concerns and Challenges in Higher Education: Some Reflection on Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1-Feb) ◽  
pp. 264-269
Author(s):  
Divya M B
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Social

Education is plays a huge role in our life.Education is also considered as a very essential basic element like food, shelter and cloth.Modern welfare states through its functionaries it give more importance to provide education to peoples of the country.Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. It should be transformed to the needs of the time and changing scenario of the world. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect upon the social, economic, cultural, moral and spiritual issues facing humanity. Especially some of the researches try to highlighted that Humanities education and research has been a critical foundation of our society for centuries. Disciplines such as history, literature, and philosophy have shaped institutions and policy debates and attracted generations of students seeking to understand more about how societies function and change. However, changing frameworks for understanding social value and the expansion of tertiary education disciplines over time have affected perceptions of the importance of the Humanities.In this background,this paper is mainly focused on the some ofissues and challenges which are affected on trend in higher education particularly in humanities disciplines.And try to emphasis on collaborative study and researches which helps to all multidisciplinary subjects in humanities.

Alternative Private-Public Blends in Higher-Education Finance: International Patterns

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Cross National

Several of the preceding pieces in this volume have analyzed policy debates concerning the financing of school systems. The policy debates are no less intense when the focus turns to higher education. Many arguments run in parallel fashion between educational levels. Some differ by matters of degree, while others differ fundamentally. Whatever the parallels in argumentation, there are striking differences in actual practice between levels. In the United States, private schools depend much more on private finance than private higher education does, while public schools depend much more exclusively on public finance than public higher education does. The panorama appears to be different in many other nations that have both private and public sectors. Their private schools seem more likely than private universities to receive public funds and their public universities seem nearly as likely as public schools to depend almost exclusively on public funds. In U.S. higher education there is considerable debate concerning the appropriate blend of private and public financing for each sector. The problem has become especially acute as enrollments decline, federal and state governments seek to cut costs, and concern spreads about higher education's equity effects in serving privileged groups out of general revenues. There is a good deal of reference to different economic theories, social values, and political constraints. But there is almost no consideration of how policymakers elsewhere have approached the problem. Of course, financial policy outside the United States is made within private-public parameters that are different from those faced by U.S. policymakers, but cross-national comparisons may help stimulate, or even orient, crossstate comparisons within the United States. More importantly, cross-national experience could at least help put our policy choices into perspective. For example, few in the United States support either 100% private or 100% public funding. An economic theory that tends to favor private over public funding may simply tell us to increase our present private share if that share is “low.”

Who's Qualified? Seeing Race in ColorBlind Times: Lessons from Fisher v. University of Texas

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (14) ◽  
pp. 185-203
Author(s):  
Jamel K. Donnor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Diversity In Higher Education ◽  
The University

This chapter examines the policy arguments advanced in Fisher v. University of Texas, an antiracial diversity in higher education case argued before the United States Supreme Court. The author contends that the arguments put forth by the petitioner are intended not only to frame White people as the expressed victims of opportunity-expanding policies, such as diversity, but also to construct people of color as undeserving of admissions to one of America's most preeminent public institutions of higher education. In addition to being ahistorical, the anti-diversity arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas purposely dismiss the structural arrangements and institutionalized practices responsible for the development of the University of Texas's diversity policy. The chapter concludes with a recommendation for a multidiscipline approach to education policy analysis in order to better understand and contextualize how race is operationalized in contemporary public policy debates. In 1942… segregation was considered fair. –Terry H. Anderson … the fact that special treatment for minority applicants upset working and middle-class whites so much more than preferences for applicants whose parents are faculty members, alumni, or major contributors cannot be explained solely by recent Supreme Court decisions holding that any racial classifications must be reviewed with utmost suspicion. –Derrick Bell

scholarly journals Exploration of the academic lives of students with disabilities at South African universities: Lecturers’ perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Mutanga ◽  
Melanie Walker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
South African ◽  
Literature Report ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
South African Universities ◽  
Academic Lives

Background: A decade has passed since South Africa signed and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a human rights treaty that protects the rights and dignity of people with disabilities. However, not much have changed for students with disabilities. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore lecturers’ experiences with, and perspectives on, disability as well as with students with disabilities. It was hoped that this would contribute to the ongoing policy debates about diversity, inclusion and support for students with disabilities at universities.Methods: In an effort to understand the lives of students with disabilities better, a study which included students with disabilities, lecturers and disability supporting staff was conducted at two South African universities – University of the Free State and University of Venda. The paper takes a snapshot view of four lecturers and their perceptions of the lives of students with disabilities at their respective universities. Results and Conclusion: Although most disability literature report students with disabilities blaming lecturers for their failure to advance their needs, this paper highlights that the education system needs to be supportive to lecturers for the inclusive agenda to be realised. An argument is made for a more comprehensive approach towards a national disability policy in higher education involving many stakeholders. Without a broader understanding of disability, it will be difficult to engage with the complex ways in which inequalities emerge and are sustained.

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