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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why do Jains fare well in higher education while other communities lag? -Lavina Mulchandani

Why do Jains fare well in higher education while other communities lag? -Lavina Mulchandani

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published Published on Oct 17, 2016   modified Modified on Oct 17, 2016
-Hindustan Times

For Martina George, 21, putting together Rs 20 lakh to pursue a degree in Medicine in Australia would have been impossible. “Coming from a middle-class background, my family couldn’t pay that amount,” George says. So, instead, her community stepped in. The Bombay Catholic Panchayat and a church from Kerala contributed with a loan and scholarship to meet those expenses.

“My school and junior college education in India was almost free because I went to Christian institutions,” George adds. Now in her final year in Australia, her graduation will cap an entire education process shaped by her community.

Few in India are that lucky. According to the 2011 census, only 4.5% Indians have completed their education in the ‘Graduate and Above’ category, up from 2.12 per cent in the 2001 census. Some communities have fared better than others. About 41.3% Jains and 18.5% Christians continued with education after school. The number falls with Hindus, only 11.5% of whom made it to college or beyond; and Muslims, for whom the numbers stand at 6.1%.

Educational achievement among the religious communities varies because of how different communities see education themselves. For some, it’s a means to realise an aspiration while others do not get opportunity to pursue higher studies or to bring their education to the logical end of facilitating livelihood,” says Ranu Jain, professor at the Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

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Hindustan Times, 12 October, 2016, http://www.hindustantimes.com/education/why-do-jains-fare-well-in-higher-education-while-other-communities-lag/story-LvHKafeQhrLXLGB96FtYRK.html


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