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The Holy Grail. India's Quest for Universal Elementary Education.
Vaidyanatha Ayyar
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Hardback. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JNB; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 51. Weight in Grams: 953.
From being a country that accounted for a third of the world's out-of-school children, India has now brought down that statistic to a minuscule 0.3 per cent. Instrumental in bringing about this change has been educational policy-making. This volume is a rare peek into the internal workings of the education ministry and development agencies through the eyes of a bureaucrat who saw from close quarters how educational policy is formulated. The author locates the developments in the education sector within larger socio-political and global contexts. The book unravels the relations between Central and state governments in a federal polity and ... Read more
From being a country that accounted for a third of the world's out-of-school children, India has now brought down that statistic to a minuscule 0.3 per cent. Instrumental in bringing about this change has been educational policy-making. This volume is a rare peek into the internal workings of the education ministry and development agencies through the eyes of a bureaucrat who saw from close quarters how educational policy is formulated. The author locates the developments in the education sector within larger socio-political and global contexts. The book unravels the relations between Central and state governments in a federal polity and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
728
Condition
New
Number of Pages
728
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199463473
SKU
V9780199463473
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About Vaidyanatha Ayyar
R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar is an independent researcher and a former member of the Indian Administrative Service (1966-2003). He was a visiting professor at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India (from 2003 to 2009).
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