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Angom, Sangeeta – Higher Education for the Future, 2014
Higher education in India has witnessed tremendous increase in the institutional capacity since independence. There are many issues and challenges of higher education in the country. Among them one is regional disparity. For instance, the North Eastern Region which comprises of eight states has been declared as an economically backward area and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Development
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St. Clair, Ralf; Kintrea, Keith; Houston, Muir – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
This article reports on a longitudinal study of student aspirations at the ages of 13 and 15 in three schools in the United Kingdom, where there has been a great deal of emphasis placed on aspirations in recent policy making. The data, based on individual interviews with 490 students in areas with significant deprivation as well as interviews with…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Poverty Areas