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A Study of Policies Related to Science Education for Diversity in India
Chunawala, Sugra; Natarajan, Chitra - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper presents the findings of a study concerning educational policies related to science education and diversity … ignore the issue of diversity, two manifestations are possible: diversity poses challenges to curricular and classroom …-economic diversity, gender and science education. In the Indian context attempts were made to understand existing educational policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945384
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Macroeconomic Performance in South Asia
Goyal, Ashima - eSocialSciences - 2010
Stylized facts for South Asia show the dominance of supply shocks, amplified by macroeconomic policies and procyclical current accounts. Interest and exchange rate volatility rose initially on liberalization, but fell as markets deepened. A gradual middling through approach to openness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544597
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Square Pegs in Round Slots: Dealing with Diversity in Law Schools
Arun, Chinmayi - eSocialSciences - 2006
There is a profile that law students are expected to fit – proficient in English, assertive, capable of dancing circles around most people in terms of playing on words or logical reasoning for instance. When people who do not fit the profile enter law school, they find themselves dealing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170171
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Social Capital, Diversity and (Economic) DEvelopment: Evidence from Indian IT Industry, Bangalore
Taube, Florian A. - eSocialSciences - 2006
that the open and cosmopolitan nature of Bangalore has contributed a large share to the existing diversity of the city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487640
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Who Funds the Act of Racism and Racial Discrimination in the Chittgaong Hill Tracks?
ACHR, Asian Centre for Human Rights - eSocialSciences - 2008
supporting this act of racism and racial discrimination. The government of Bangladesh must bring an end to such racist policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699111
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Brand India: No Equity for Children
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2011
India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand India†which has the tenth highest GDP in the world. Even while the country is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367214
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Transgenics in Indian Agriculture: Experiences so far and implications of KIA proposals on Indian Farmers
V, Ramanjaneyulu G - eSocialSciences - 2008
KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run, the KIA would concentrate on the four themes namely, (i) education, learning resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699119
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Under the Thumb of History? Political institutions and the Scope for Action
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945562
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Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993: Volume 31
UCL, The Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine WTC - eSocialSciences - 2008
Medical ethics did not become a recognized subject in the syllabus of Britain's medical schools until 1993. This Witness Seminar transcript records the development of international ethical codes, the response to them over the period 1963-93 by students and doctors and the extent of resistance...
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India: Large and Small
Sen, Amartya - eSocialSciences - 2007
the long history of the argumentative tradition in India, and its continuing relevance today. The intellectual largeness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341826