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Pooja Saxena – Journal of Education Policy, 2025
This ethnographic study analyzes the barriers women encounter in achieving their goals at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Employing a discursive approach, the study seeks to identify symbols promulgated by various policy actions that legitimize or delegitimize specific gender relations. It draws…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Technology, Gender Issues, Educational Policy
Prasad, Mousami; Sengupta, Sourav; Niranjan, Tarikere T. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
This study provides an insider's perspective on why engineering undergraduates at elite Indian universities lack academic motivation. Using interpretive qualitative research (actors approach), we uncover students' perceptions of academic (de)motivation and group them into three broad categories: faculty-related, course-related and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes
Toms, Bini; Kurup, Jayashree; Panda, Ranjita – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2018
In the conventional system of education, a student can regularly interact with teachers and peers and effectively and smoothly carry on with the learning process. However, in the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system, students have to learn by themselves with the self-instructional materials and with the minimum guidance received from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria, Higher Education, College Students
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
Kenway, Jane; Fahey, Johannah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
How are elite schools caught up in the changing processes of globalisation? Is globalisation a new phenomenon for them? This paper focuses on the globalising practices that selected elite schools adopt. It also explores how globalisation is impacting on the social purposes of elite schools, which conventionally have been to serve privileged social…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Selective Admission, Advantaged, Social Status
Carnoy, Martin; Froumin, Isak; Loyalka, Prashant K.; Tilak, Jandhyala B. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Because higher education serves both public and private interests, the way it is conceived and financed is contested politically, appearing in different forms in different societies. What is public and private in education is a political--social construct, subject to various political forces, primarily interpreted through the prism of the state.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Change, Higher Education
Rizvi, Fazal – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
Elite schools established in the nineteenth century in the image of British public schools now face intense competition from newly established elite schools. Located within the broader research project that this special issue discusses, this paper examines some of the ways in which an old elite school in India has sought to utilise is history to…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Advantaged, Admission (School), Foreign Countries
Walsh, Taylor – Princeton University Press, 2011
Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the world's leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials--including syllabi, assignments, and lectures--to anyone with an Internet connection. Yale offers high-quality audio and video recordings of a careful selection of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Brown, Phillip; Lauder, Hugh – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
International education can be seen as a kind of litmus test in interrogating the place of education, power, and ideology in a globalized economy. In this paper, the authors detail the development of international education both with respect to character and credentials, and identify its putative links with elite higher education. How then might…
Descriptors: Credentials, Social Class, International Education, International Cooperation
Elsner, Paul A., Ed.; Boggs, George R., Ed.; Irwin, Judith T., Ed. – Community College Press (NJ3), 2008
In a global society and economy, education and training is essential to a nation's competitiveness and to the standard of living of its people. The need to open the doors of higher or further education beyond the relatively limited enrollments in elite and selective universities has spawned a movement to develop or expand institutions that are…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Living Standards, Global Approach, Foreign Countries

Chanana, Karuna – Higher Education, 1993
An examination of higher education in India focuses on the complexities of the sociocultural context in which it operates. Public policy concerning equity for specific social groups, including women, racial minorities, castes, and tribes, is discussed and difficulties in bridging the gap between policy and practice are noted. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Ghosh, Ratna – 1988
This paper discusses gender discrimination with regard to educational opportunity and outcomes in India. Although official statements promoting equity indicate awareness of the imbalances in this area, solutions, it is argued, lie not only in propagating new equitable educational practices but in political decisions that take into account existing…
Descriptors: Educational Discrimination, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education