"Diversity across contexts runs as a common thread across BRICS countries. The educational policies and provisions in every #BRICS country acknowledge this leading to development of affirmative responses, as a systemic approach, to empower every citizen of the country. However, in every BRICS country, factors like disproportionate spread of huge population across uneven landscapes pose significant challenge for a congruent implementation of the same. Further, the social inequalities are a reality and education is a tacit game changer for every country of this forum. The rural and urban population demography is suitably represented in student population, although the quality of learning experiences and resources in both the contexts, continues to be a point of discussion. The enrolment of girls in the schools on the scale of 49.4%-47.1% indicates that the gender gap is narrowing. The countries in this forum have a wide disparity in resources with GDP per capita varying from 47.30-11.11. Despite that the educational planners and practitioners in each of these countries, unequivocally, acknowledge the role of education in transforming the life of their citizens and is continuously striving for enhancing the quality of education while critically examining the significance of locating and nurturing linguistic, ethnic, religious diversities and their intersectionality with gender, class and disability," the expert noted.
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