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When classrooms become dividers, not equalisers

ཟླ་༩ 22, 2025 2 mins read
When classrooms become dividers, not equalisers

The report lays bare what many have quietly suspected: education in Bhutan is not only unequal, it is deeply divided along lines of family background, income, and geography. A child whose father has no formal schooling scores, on average, 51 points lower in mathematics than a peer whose father is educated. That is not a gap; it is a canyon.

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