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@article{179371,
        author = {Dr Sandeep Pandey and Dr Veena Upadhyay},
        title = {Vocational Education Vs Commercialization Of Education},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {12},
        pages = {6568-6573},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=179371},
        abstract = {Education is a human right and a public
good that can only be fully realized through the
provision of free, equitable, inclusive, quality public
education. The rise in this sector and its privatization is
the greatest threat to the universal right to education.
Indian society is very unequal in terms of social status
and income distribution. Therefore, commercialization
of education will further increase this inequality and
will hinder the marginalized underprivileged
communities from getting quality education. Social
equality or social justice cannot be achieved in a
situation where a large section of the society is away
from quality education. Furthermore,
commercialization of education will create many layers
in the education system in the form of different
standards and categories of education institutions.
Unfortunately, these layers exist even in public funded
schools. For example, Kendriya Vidyalaya, schools with
higher academic standards and state government-run
schools, all have different standards of education,
academic excellence and achievement. Moreover,
earlier many of these schools were run with single
teachers. Such classification exists in public funded
schools. However, there are more layers to private
schools. For example, fashionable schools cater to the
needs of the affluent sections of society. On the other
hand, schools meant for Dalits are poor in
infrastructure and quality. In many cases, they are even
worse than government schools. Therefore,
commercialization has led to the creation of different
classes and layers in the education system},
        keywords = {Commercialization of education goes against the universalization of education.},
        month = {May},
        }