India has travelled a long way in education‚ from the “Guru -Shishya” practice of learning under the shade of a tree in medieval times‚ to becoming the second largest in the field of higher education world over after United States! Today‚ all high school students start thinking about career options but the question is whether our country has the facilities to help our dreams soar in the sky or whether we have to go abroad to make our dreams come true. After extensive research on this topic‚ it
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ACCESS AND EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN KENYA A paper presented for The KIM SOM CONFERENCE 2009 Theme: Transforming Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges Sub Theme: Access and Equity in Higher Education By NAME : OWINO ROSE ATIENO DESIGNATION: TEACHER IN SECONDARY SCHOOL & EMBA STUDENT – KIM NAKURU HD334-033-0234/ 2008 Email address: atienowino @ yahoo.com Postal address: P.o.box 13091‚ Nakuru. Mobile no. : 0720203200 ABSTRACT In the last decade‚ a great
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN A REGIME OF GLOBALIZATION: DEVELOPING INTEGRAL PERSONALITY (Abstract) (Man is neither mere intellect‚ nor the gross animal body‚ nor the heart or soul alone. A proper and harmonious combination of all the three is required for the making of the whole man and constitutes the true economics of education. After independence‚ India adopted the approach of planned development of the country. In the post – independence period‚ higher education has expanded fast‚ and it is mostly
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Angela Blue Miss. Gary EN101 C 11/18/12 Final research “Is Higher Education worth the Cost?” Americans today tend to believe that college education is not an option but more so a necessity. “Why are so many parents trying to encourage their kids to attend college”? Is it because they are trying to control their lives? Or maybe it’s because they are just awful parents? I say that it’s completely the opposite of that. Parents just want
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1. Introduction As top members of the food chain‚ humans often do not stop to think about how their actions will affect other living species that coexist in the world with them—how often do we think twice about getting into our cars to go to work? The reality is‚ however‚ that everything we do has consequences‚ unintended or not‚ on processes that maintain the Earth’s systems. The effects of modern economic systems have put extensive pressure on the environment and society‚ both for this and future
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Types of institution Spain Higher Education institutions have been around for centuries. Spain ’s universities are some of the oldest institutions in the world. One of Spain ’s institutions was founded in the earlier years of the thirteenth century. Higher education in Spain is mainly comprised of universities. There are currently around 75 universities where there are approximately 56 state owned and 19 private universities that are ran by private enterprises or by the Catholic Church. (Hampshire
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Assignment 1: Changing Nature of Higher Education by James A. Poag EDD 9810 Contemporary Challenges in Higher Education Leadership Nova Southeastern University March 10‚ 2013 Table of Contents Page Introduction…….............................................................................................................................3 Changing Faces of Public Accountability………………........................
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Higher education system of India In India 69 crore(6.9 billion) people belong to 15-60 year age group. This is the working age group. Growth of any nation depends on its youth. It is possible only if the youth get proper education. Higher education plays a key role to produce Good engineers‚ doctors‚ administrators‚ artists etc. Today‚ we have 16 IIT’s‚ 30 NIT’s‚ 13 IIM’s and around 550 universities in all over India. But still the nomination rate in higher education is only 13%. In developed
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Diversity awareness is constantly shaping the way that society approach or address populations in regards to race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexual-orientation‚ language‚ and social class in P-12 and higher education settings. Challenges and Research Techniques Challenges and Research Techniques. Higher education and P—12 entities face many challenges in regards to diversity. Several research studies show that many situations works directly against students’ learning. For example‚ one study reports that
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Neoliberalism and Higher Education In today’s society‚ neoliberalism has become one of the most dominant ideologies that developed from long-standing practices in the United States. There is a history of many different types of economic powers that rule the way people live and survive and neoliberalism is one of the most influential. As history puts it “the neoliberal revolution usually attributed to Reagan and Thatcher after 1979 and had to be accomplished by democratic means” (Harvey 2005:39)
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