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Muhammad Kashif Rahimoon – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2023
Strategy is planning about survival in a tough and competitive environment, and strategic enrollment management (SEM) is about higher education institutions exerting influence on student enrollment to generate tuition revenue. Although the global environment of the 21st century provides opportunities for improving enrollment from various parts of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Enrollment, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Gururaj, Suchitra; Somers, Patricia; Fry, Jessica; Watson, Del; Cicero, Francesca; Morosini, Marilia; Zamora, Jennifer – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Social inclusion policy in higher education--also referenced as affirmative action, reservations, schedules, or antidiscrimination--has been used widely to promote equity and access for minority and historically discriminated subgroups who wish to participate in tertiary education. Inclusion is often protected de jure through a country's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Affirmative Action, Educational Policy
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Syamprasad, K. V. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Cultural Capital, Affirmative Action
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Herman, Harold D. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
This paper explains the concepts of Affirmative Action (AA) and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and the policies developed in post-Apartheid South Africa. It compares it to similar policies adopted in different contexts in Malaysia, India and the U.S.A. It explains and critiques the South African policies on AA and BEE, its history since 1994 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, Blacks, Empowerment
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Sabharwal, Nidhi Sadana – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2020
The chairman of the drafting committee of the modern Indian Constitution, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, emphasized that education cultivates democracy in society, strengthens the roots of democracy, and brings about social transformation. The social transformation includes a way of life that will promote liberty, equality, and fraternity, which are Dr…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Change, Higher Education, Democratic Values
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Pathania, Gaurav J.; Tierney, William G. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
Despite having outlawed the caste system and the concept of untouchability in 1947, caste identity remains a cornerstone of social, political and economic life in India. Like other social institutions, educational institutions are the reflection of caste prejudices and discrimination. The recent inclusion of lower castes through the reservation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Universities, Social Bias
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Frisancho, Veronica; Krishna, Kala – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Using detailed data on the 2008 graduating class from an elite engineering institution in India, we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in higher education focusing on three issues: targeting, catch up, and mismatch. We find that admission preferences effectively target minority students who are poorer than average displaced…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Educational Policy
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Ghosh, Ratna; Chakravarti, Paromita; Mansi, Kumari – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
While women have made many advances, their inferior status to men continues to be a global phenomenon. At a time of unprecedented economic growth, India is experiencing a dramatic intensification of violence against women and the majority of girls are still not getting equal educational opportunity. In one of the most important steps for the…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Womens Studies, Empowerment, Self Help Programs
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Higham, Rob; Shah, Alpa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article explores the combination of education and affirmative action in challenging historic inequalities faced by adivasis, or indigenous peoples, living in a remote region of Eastern India. We show how the combined effects of education and affirmative action can act as a "contradictory resource". On the one hand, policies of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Social Class
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Sahni, Rohini; Shankar, V. Kalyan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
The scope of this paper spans from macro-level national and inter-state comparisons to more micro-level intra-state scrutiny of systemic fault-lines shaping the contours of girls' education in India. Post independence, national level indicators have been suggestive of greater gender parity. Yet, there is more to inclusiveness of girls in Indian…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Higher Education, Females, Foreign Countries
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Ghosh, Ratna – Comparative Education Review, 2012
In her teaching, research, and community activities in Canada, the author has repeatedly confronted questions regarding equality, diversity, and power. In this article, the author discusses diversity and equal opportunity to achieve excellence in education. Reflecting on these issues should help everyone to understand the complexities involved in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethnic Diversity, Excellence in Education, Equal Education
Abdul-Alim, Jamaal – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
When it comes to dealing with his fellow students at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Warner, a 21-year-old aerospace engineering major, says the fact that he comes from a group of farmers known as the Pallar community means nothing. But when it comes to his enrollment status as a student at IIT, it makes all the difference in the world.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Class, Foreign Countries, Enrollment Influences
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Rout, Bharat Chandra – Educational Forum, 2012
Affirmative action (AA) is one of the most suitable mechanisms to promote equity and social justice in education in India. This essay deals with the impact of the different conceptualizations of AA in terms of its vision and the historic approaches to social inequalities in India. Primarily focusing on the various perspectives of affirmative…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries
Frisancho Robles, Veronica C.; Krishna, Kala – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically disadvantaged minorities. Although the underlying social objectives of these policies are rarely criticized, there is intense debate over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Higher Education, Social Class
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Moses, Michele S. – Educational Researcher, 2010
The author's primary aims are to clarify the differing rationales for affirmative action that have emerged in five nations--France, India, South Africa, the United States, and Brazil--and to make the case for the most compelling rationales, whether instrumentally or morally based. She examines the different social contexts surrounding the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, State Legislation, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries
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