What is it about?

Financing higher education, education loans, grants for education, access and equity, targeting

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The main thrust of the article is identifying that part of the loan which needs to be converted as grant. The objectives of the present article are twofold, that is, why and how to identify the threshold level of loans that need to be converted into a grant;

Perspectives

When we are examining who benefits, it becomes central to understand the dynamics between hidden grants and student loans. This is explicated from the international experiences with an illustration of positioning of education loan in the Indian context

Dr Geetha Rani Prakasam
National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration

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This page is a summary of: Education Loans and Financing Higher Education in India, Higher Education for the Future, July 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2347631114539891.
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