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What is meant by equality of educational opportunities? What are its possibilities in developing countries?

  • UPSC 1987
  • Education System and Social Change

Equality of educational opportunity is the principle that the schooling a person receives, and what it yields, should not depend on ascribed circumstances of birth. Its possibilities in developing countries are shaped by a distinctive predicament: such societies must universalise schooling and industrialise at once, on thin fiscal bases, for populations of first-generation learners.

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  • What the term means
  • Structural constraints in developing countries
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