DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN INDIA: ACCESS, PARTICIPATION, DELIVERY MECHANISM AND FINANCING

Examines the development of secondary 'education encompassing different aspects like access, participation, the trends in expansion, delivery mechanism-role of government and private providers, gender and equity perspectives and financing of secondary education in India. One of the unique features of this book includes analysis of different aspects of secondary education in a comparative perspective at all India, inter-state, inter-district and that of the case study schools. Further the present study examines extensively development of secondary education in four states i.e., Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh which are at varying levels of educational and economic development.