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Access to education Universal access to education refers to ability of all the people to have equal opportunities in education regardless of their caste, class, gender, ethnicity, or physical or mental disability.
Introduction
Educational inequality or unequal access to education amounts to unequal distribution of opportunities to access academic resources. Denial of such opportunities seriously constrains people’s ability to achieve their potential which has widespread manifestations. There is an obvious interconnection between inequalities in educational access and its repercussions for awareness levels, intellectual growth, skill development, awareness about rights, employability, economic status, and so on. There could be several ramifications of poor access to education, some of which are given below:
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Inequality in education will lead to the rise of unskilled individuals who don’t have required skills so that they can participate in the industrial activities and...
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Kumar, C., Pandey, V. (2020). Access to Education and Gender Equality. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_17-1
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