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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Privatisation of Education and Equality of Opportunity.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Education System and Social Change

Privatisation of education has three distinct faces: privatisation of provision (private unaided schools and colleges), of financing (households paying fees, coaching and transport for a service the state promises free), and of the public institution itself (self-financing courses, contract teaching, corporate partnerships). Equality of opportunity presumes that educational outcomes should not track the purchasing power…

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  • The Indian scale
  • Why it erodes equality of opportunity
  • The other side, and the safeguards
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