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Direct linkRajesh Bhattacharya – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
The New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, adopted by Government of India, envisages significant and far-reaching reforms in higher education sector in India. In this article, I foreground certain peculiar features of the process of massification of higher education in India, including privatisation and fragmentation. I locate the political economy of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Higher Education
Buser De, Maya – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
In this article we describe evolving educational aspirations and practices of female high school students and their families in the context of rapidly changing education and employment markets in Kolkata. We interviewed 35 families of girls attending two government high schools. The families are from lower middle-class and lower income…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Females, Family Relationship
Download full textPant, Hema – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2019
The North East Region of the country is unique due to its socio-cultural features, geopolitical factors, and abundant untapped natural resources. However, despite being endowed with such uniqueness, the region remains underdeveloped, backward and alienated from the mainland. Since its inception, Indira Gandhi National Open University registered…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Developing Nations
Jha, Jyotsna; Ghatak, Neha; Mahendiran, Shreekanth – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
In India, Open and Distance Learning for secondary and higher secondary level is mainly provided by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS). Secondary education in India pertains to class 9 and 10 catering to the age group of 15 to 16. Similarly, higher secondary education refers to class 11 and 12 catering to the age group of 17 to 18.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Profiles, Graduate Students, Open Education
Bayeck, Rebecca Yvonne – Open Praxis, 2016
This paper reports preliminary findings on students enrolled in a massive open online course, who were also assigned to work in groups. Part of a larger study on the effect of groups on retention and completion in MOOCs, the paper provides students' demographics (i.e., location, gender, education level, and employment status), and motivation for…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Student Characteristics, Demography
Johnson, Richard; Kumar, Margaret – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
How does the University sector identify and support the diverse needs of Indian students? This paper reports on a research project carried out on undergraduate students from India enrolled at a Melbourne-based University. The focus is the need to understand why Indian students choose an overseas destination for tertiary study. The intent is to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Postsecondary Education, Indians, Foreign Countries
