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Bindiya Naik; Jyoti Chandiramani; Sudipa Majumdar – Cogent Education, 2024
India, with the third largest higher education system globally, has the lowest gross enrolment ratio compared to G20 nations. The National Education Policy 2020 has made a strong recommendation to enhance the gross enrolment ratio for higher education to 50% by 2035. This figure stood at 19.4% in 2010 and 28.4% in 2021-22. The study, therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inclusion, Enrollment
Josh Leung-Gagné – AERA Open, 2023
Though schools do not track in Brazil, I find that racial classroom segregation in Brazil is on par with recent estimates from North Carolina high schools (Clotfelter et al., 2020). How does racial classroom segregation occur without tracking, and in a supposed "racial paradise," no less? Using national, student-level data spanning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 9
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Plank, David N. – Economics of Education Review, 1986
Presents a model of school enrollment determinants that incorporates public decisions about the supply of schools and tests the model with 1970 Brazilian census data. Results show that enrollment rates are affected more strongly by demand-variables (information access and demand for children's labor) than by public supply decisions. Includes 4…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Supply
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Plank, David N. – Journal of Education Finance, 1990
The Brazilian educational finance system faces three principal problems: the persistence of large regional and intrastate inequalities on all wealth and development indices; the federal government's predominance in controlling revenue sources; and the education system's openness to political abuses. Disparities can only be rectified by…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Rate
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Bowman, Mary Jean – Comparative Education Review, 1984
Lays out a framework in which microeconomic decision theory and elements of information/communication theory drawn from human geography and sociology are joined in an integrated approach to the analysis of the spread of schooling among the less developed countries. Tests the model on area variations in India, Brazil, and Mexico. (BRR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
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Plank, David N. – Comparative Education Review, 1987
Analysis of educational expansion in Brazil between 1940 and 1980 indicates that, in most circumstances, enrollment rates were positively related to urbanization, diversification of the occupational structure, and aggregate economic growth. States experiencing heavy in-migration showed a negative effect of migration on enrollment rates during…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Demography, Economic Development, Educational Development