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Honawar, Vaishali – Education Week, 2005
In India, putting a child through engineering or medical college is, for many middle-class families, a life's mission in a way that is almost unknown in the United States. Though middle-class families in India have long steered their children into professions like engineering and medicine, the trend has taken off over the past decade. It's been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Engineering Education, Medical Education