Standardization and ethnocracy in Sri Lanka
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چکیده
Standardization was the scheme that replaced meritocracy in Sri Lanka education, with positive discrimination to increase majority Sinhalese community’s university enrolment. It did so by minimizing better-qualified minority Tamils’ entry, even as quest for Tamil separatism gaining ground. The government claimed justified create a more balanced representation science-based fields, but it among policies contributed island becoming an ethnocracy. While standardization later discarded, its legacy continues thanks district quota system fostered and inequalities helped cement between ethnic groups. Ultimately, not merely complicate existing inequalities; also anomie substandard professionalism within educational governmental sectors. A path dependence explanation helps us better understand why policy instituted, quotas continue operate.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Working Paper Series
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2624-9650']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2022/217-1