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Insights from Social Contexts

Enrolment in Higher Education: Need for Reflection PART II

  • January 9, 2024

The real problem is the lack of an approach to connect academic subjects with the real-life or occupational contexts of students. The subjects that students study in their UG programme should contribute to their lives and occupations even if they do not pursue higher levels of education.
Insights from Social Contexts

Enrolment in Higher Education: Need for Reflection PART I

  • December 28, 2023

A mere increase in the enrolment in higher education may not be the ideal way forward. There is a need for a deeper analysis of factors which encourage youngsters to go to a college/university.

Insights from Social Contexts

Education and Development Linkages in South Asia (III)

  • September 28, 2021

Bangladesh is an example where the education-development interlinkage provided a positive feedback loop which strengthened both aspects, even though the country is at a relatively lower level in terms of both education and development. This may have implications on poverty reduction, economic and human development.
Insights from Social Contexts

Education and Development Linkages in South Asia (II)

  • September 16, 2021

Nepal is the one country where internal factors and forces of globalisation have not helped in substantially increasing the demand for and use of education on the one hand and the better and more opportunities for educated people on the other hand.
Response to COVID-19

Unequal Impact: COVID-19 Will Hit Youth Harder

  • July 6, 2020

The current pandemic, once more, underscores the requirement of the universal basic income to have a safety net for the vulnerable section of the population. Social protection measures, like unemployment benefits for youth through active fiscal policy, will be a relief for millions of youth affected.

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