http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7347/full/473285c.html

Manas Kaushik Advise senior management on strategy across health care and public health for Mc Kinsey&Company

Subha Ramani Dr. Ramani is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Medicine

In India, there is a strong gap in educational achievement depending on the social groups the students belong to. The government has set a series of measure to cope with this :

• special scheme for disadvantaged students

• public institutions set up quotas to enable lower background groups to access HEI.

Nevertheless, the academic results are not conclusive enough, based on statistics, to consider these measures as a unique and sustainable solution.

In the end, some long-term approaches are offered :

• wider access to primary education for all

• standardized assessment of students

• academic support

• more evaluation of these inequalities to orientate the policies