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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How do you relate the educational system to the economic development in India?

  • UPSC 1986
  • Education System and Social Change

The relation is reciprocal: education is supposed to build the productive capacity that growth requires, and growth is supposed to generate the work that education promises. In India the two halves have never been well matched — the system was built downward from the elite, and its output now outruns the economy's capacity to absorb…

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  • Education as investment: the human capital link
  • The structural distortion: a pyramid built upside down
  • Credentials without capability
  • Conclusion

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