Globalization and Higher Education in India

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Disparities in Education: Focussing Gender Disparities in India and Pakistan

M. Zafar Iqbal and Afshan Huma

Universal primary education was enshrined as a human right in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Forty years later, the goal was still not in sight and a call on donors and governments to reaffirm their commitment to universal primary education was part of the World Declaration on Education for All, issued in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990. The year 2000 was set as the target for achieving this goal. But still like many other nations, India and Pakistan are struggling to reach that target. The main reasons for not achieving the target of Education for All can be found within the disparities existing in provision, ...