Loading...
Gender Bias and Caste Exclusion in Engineering Admission: Inferences from the Engineering Entrance Examination in Kerala
The major problem of the engineering entrance examination is the exclusion of certain sections of the society in social, economic, regional and gender dimen- sions. This has seldom been taken for analysis towards policy correction. To lessen this problem a minor policy shift was prepared in the year...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Printed Book |
| Published: |
Higher Education for the Future
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004895.pdf |
| Summary: | The major problem of the engineering entrance examination is the exclusion of
certain sections of the society in social, economic, regional and gender dimen-
sions. This has seldom been taken for analysis towards policy correction. To
lessen this problem a minor policy shift was prepared in the year 2011 with a
50–50 proportion in academic marks and entrance marks. The impact of this
change is yet to be scrutinized. The data for the study is obtained from the Nodal
Centre of Kerala functioning at Cochin University of Science and Technology
under the National Technical Manpower Information System and also estimated
from the Centralized Allotment Process. The article focuses on two aspects of
exclusion based on engineering entrance examination; gender centred as well as
caste-linked. Rank order spectral density and Lorenz ratio are used to cognize
the exclusion and inequality in community and gender levels in various perform-
ance scales. The article unfolds the fact that social status in society coupled with
economic affordability to quality education seems to have significant influence in
the performance of students in the Kerala engineering entrance examinations.
But it also shows that there is wide gender disparity with respect to performance
in the high ranking levels irrespective of social groups. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | p.11–28 1(1) |