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Access and Equity to Education in India through Synergy of Conventional and ODL Systems: A Step towards Democratization of Education - Purnendu TRIPATHI, Siran MUKERJI

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Author:	Purnendu TRIPATHI, Siran MUKERJI
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Abstract India has witnessed tremendous development in educating and training its vast human resource of over one billion through sustained effort of conventional and distance mode of education. In pursuit of making Right to Education a reality, the Government has been initiating efforts for developing the educational infrastructure and training human capital. Consequently, the Country with a literacy rate of 64.84%, has 767520, 274731 and 152049 schools along with 12 open schools at primary, middle and secondary/ higher secondary levels catering to 130.8, 51.2 and 37.1 million students respectively. At higher education level, 13578 colleges and 407 universities along with 106 distance education institutions address needs of 11.7 million students. These institutions of learning, in true sense have been instrumental in educating the vast human resource of over one billion but democratization of education i.e. access and equity to education is still a dream to be realized. This paper endeavours to explore the achievements so far and identify the challenges and constraints that have prevented the country to achieve the goal of universalisation of education and high level of literacy.
Keywords universalisation, access, equity, democratization of education

How to realize social fairness and equality through distance and open learning? - Li Yawan, Qi Wei

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Author:	Li Yawan, Qi Wei
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Abstract For the past decades, China has formed a relatively perfect legal system for education. The Constitution of People’s Republic of China adopted on December 4, 1982 stipulates the general principles of equal rights to education. On the basis of that, China established a dozen of specific laws and regulations on education in which concrete rights to education are proclaimed. To realize equal right to education is to guarantee most people to receive education and more people to enjoy higher education. Applying the American scholar, Professor Martin Trow’s concept about the three phases of higher education, which are Elite Education, Mass Education and Popularizing Education, China is now stepping out of the elite education phase and progressing to the mass education. For the past ten years, China’s higher education is developing fast. The overall active enrolment from various kinds of higher educational institutions has amounted to 23 million and the recruits from higher education institutions have reached over 5 million by 2005. Though the gross rate for enrollment has been 21%, many people who intent to continue their study are closed outside the door of the higher education institutions and many who want to upgrade their knowledge and skill cannot find the places suitable to their concrete conditions. Therefore, there is great potential to develop open learning and distance education so that different people’s requirement for education and training can be satisfied.
Keywords equal right to education, mass education, equity

Role of Distance education as a way to guarantee the right to education - Dra. María Yee Seuret

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Author:	Dra. María Yee Seuret
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Abstract La crisis internacional que vive el mundo, agudiza la situación en el campo educativo y acentúa cada vez más el desequilibrio entre los países desarrollados y los subdesarrollados. A casi sesenta años de la adopción de la Declaración de los Derechos Humanos, no se ha podido generalizar lo planteado en su Artículo 26. Sin embargo, en 1966 se logró que 142 países suscribieran el Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, y se ha alcanzado un mayor consenso sobre los problemas que afronta la educación en aspectos tales como el acceso, la gratuidad, la equidad, la diversidad, la permanencia, la eficiencia, los problemas de género, la prioridad y la calidad de la educación, la educación para todos a lo largo de la vida y el aprendizaje centrado en el estudiante (todos esenciales para lograr una educación sensible a los derechos humanos). Pero la educación no puede hacer frente con sus estructuras y métodos tradicionales a estas exigencias. Por tanto, se requiere la utilización de nuevos enfoques y estrategias educativas, para resolverlos. Una alternativa es “la educación a distancia”, modalidad que puede desempeñar un papel excepcional en la ampliación del alcance de los sistemas de educación.
Keywords human rights, distance education, diversity, equity, acees, free of charge

Development of equal opportunities to education using ICT in China : Overview of the nationwide project 'Modern Distance Education for Schools in the Rural Areas of China' - Li CHEN and Meiling CHEN

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Author:	Li CHEN and Meiling CHEN
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Abstract This Paper reports on the largest project in the world, which aims to reduce the gap in education quality between the urban areas and the rural areas in China - by sharing digital resources through ICT. This Paper gives an overview together with discussion of the challenges and some suggestions. The Paper shares some valuable information on how distance education can be used to enhance educational access and equity at low cost in developing countries.
Keywords Large-scale, Access, Equity, Challenges, Suggestions

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