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Khanale, Prakash; Vaingankar, Anil – Online Submission, 2006
The trend of "self financing" (Un-aided) institutions has implemented for the last twenty two years in Maharashtra state and other parts of India. The Government does not financially support these institutions. The "job satisfaction" of teachers working in such institutions is always questionable, particularly in those…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions
Bindhu, C. M.; Sudheeshkumar, P. K. – Online Submission, 2006
Job satisfaction expresses the extent of match between teachers' expectation of the job, job requirements and the satisfaction derived from their jobs. There seems to be a growing discontentment towards teaching as a result of which standards of education are falling. Teachers are dissatisfied in spite of different plans and programmes which have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Coping, Content Validity
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Mehrotra, Santosh – International Journal of Educational Development, 2006
This paper reports on findings from a large sample survey in the states of India that account for two thirds of the children out of school. It then examines the feasibility of the central government's goals to ensure all children complete 5 years of school by 2007, and 8 years by 2010. These goals--more ambitious than the global EFA goals--are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Mehrotra, Santosh; Panchamukhi, Parthasarthi R. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Private sector growth in education is the new neo-liberal mantra. Based on data generated by a representative sample survey in eight states, six of which account for two-thirds of the children out of school in India, this paper examines the private sector in elementary education in India, and compares its characteristics with government schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Private Sector, Private Schools
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. – 2000
This report synthesizes case studies of women teachers in rural areas of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. In each country, interviews and focus groups were conducted in selected states and districts with administrators and women teachers in rural elementary schools, as well as policymakers and community members. Following an introduction to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
Spence, Nancy – Online Submission, 2006
Records show that school enrollment for girls is still lagging behind in some areas in the Asia and Pacific region, which poses challenge for the region to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015. And girls' labor in the Asia and Pacific region continues to constitute a major obstacle towards gender parity in education, another EFA target. Girls'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational Opportunities, Child Labor
Abrillo, Harry – 1987
A study examined the job requirements and working conditions of vocational and technical education teachers (VTETs) in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. Data were gathered (1) from published materials and interviews with officers and staff of concerned agencies and (2) from a project-developed questionnaire that was administered…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration), Employment Level, Employment Qualifications
Eiseman, Thomas Owen – 1980
This paper examines how the careers and research activities of university scientists in India, Nigeria, and Kenya are influenced by factors related to practicing science in developing nations. Data are derived from interviews with engineers, physicists, mathematicians, and zoologists in Indian, Kenyan, and Nigerian universities. Estimates are that…
Descriptors: African Culture, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Assessment
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