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Is the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act Really Beneficial to the Poorer Children in India? An Analysis with Special Reference to the Admission of Poorer Children in Public Unaided Schools
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Cheruvalath, Reena – Education 3-13, 2015
It is proposed to examine whether the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act can achieve its major objective of ensuring education for all children in India. Indian parents like to enter their wards into private schools because they believe that the standard of education in the public schools is poor. The act strengthens this…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Disadvantaged, Public Schools, Low Income Groups
Transforming Education: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Implications. Educational Psychology: Critical Pedagogical Perspectives. Volume 24
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DeVillar, Robert A., Ed.; Jiang, Binbin, Ed.; Cummins, Jim, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national and global trajectories in key areas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Global Approach, Learning Processes
Strengthening Basic Education: An EU-China Joint Project in Gansu Province
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Robinson, Bernadette; Wenwu, Yi – European Journal of Education, 2009
Since 1986 when the National People's Congress ratified the Compulsory Education Law, China's achievement of nine-year compulsory basic education for its huge school-age population has been rapid and successful. However, the rate of achievement has grown unevenly across the country, reflecting the different economic development patterns of the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Poverty, Compulsory Education, Rural Areas
Universalizing Nine-Year Compulsory Education for Poverty Reduction in Rural China
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Zhang, Tiedao; Minxia, Zhao – International Review of Education, 2006
Lack of access to basic education leads to diminished individual and national capabilities, therewith furthering cycles of poverty. An equitable education system meeting basic learning needs represents not only a human right, but also a means for reducing poverty, promoting productivity, and sustaining development. The Government of China--the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Poverty, Rural Education, Foreign Countries
Education Participation in Sri Lanka--Why All Are Not in School
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Arunatilake, Nisha – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Despite Sri Lanka's 1990 commitment to provide 10-11 years of free education to all, only 93% of children in the 5-14-year-old age group were in school by the year 2000. Moreover, the education participation rates are not equitable across the country, varying by socio-economic groups. This paper examines the determinants of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Compulsory Education, Attendance Patterns
Dropout in Primary and Secondary School: A Global Issue and an Obstacle to the Achievement of the Education for All Goals
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Education for All (an international movement of governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media) set objectives in Jomtien (1990) and reaffirmed in Dakar (2000) that, among other things, work towards all children having access to free, compulsory, good quality primary education by 2015. School dropout may hinder the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Holding Power, Elementary Education, Illiteracy