The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway)
This thesis is dedicated to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people. It includes two case studies that cover the research topic in two areas Yakutsk in Far-East Russia (The North-Eastern Federal University) and Tromsø (The Arctic University of Norway) in Northern No...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/6478 2023-05-15T17:43:36+02:00 The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) Nikanorova, Liudmila 2014-05-21 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6478 eng eng UiT Norges arktiske universitet UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6478 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6080 openAccess Copyright 2014 The Author(s) VDP::Social science: 200 higher education Sami people Yakut people UiT The Arctic University of Norway The North-Eastern Federal University affirmative action SVF-3904 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2014 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:53:58Z This thesis is dedicated to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people. It includes two case studies that cover the research topic in two areas Yakutsk in Far-East Russia (The North-Eastern Federal University) and Tromsø (The Arctic University of Norway) in Northern Norway. The motivation for the study and for the choice of the cases comes from my personal experience. I personally was declined admission in favor of an indigenous representative in one case, and also I was granted a scholarship on the quota-program in another case. Indigenous people in Norway and in Russia are granted by special scholarships and quota programs for admission to the Universities, where a number of seats are preserved for them. This study examines the intentions, regulations, scope and the results of these mechanisms. It also discusses definition of indigenous people, the role of affirmative action for the state, the meaning of higher education for indigenous people, and, in general, the need for affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people. The main finding of this thesis is the mismatch of the intents and implementations of affirmative action. Affirmative action was aimed to equalize opportunities of indigenous people to majority people, which justify regulations of affirmative action that may seem to be discriminatory at the first glance. However, practices of affirmative action in higher education in case of Norway and Russia are not large scale and did not bring as notable results as I would have expect from the intents of it. Master Thesis Northern Norway sami Tromsø Yakutsk Arctic University of Norway UiT The Arctic University of Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Yakutsk Norway Tromsø |
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This thesis is dedicated to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people. It includes two case studies that cover the research topic in two areas Yakutsk in Far-East Russia (The North-Eastern Federal University) and Tromsø (The Arctic University of Norway) in Northern Norway. The motivation for the study and for the choice of the cases comes from my personal experience. I personally was declined admission in favor of an indigenous representative in one case, and also I was granted a scholarship on the quota-program in another case. Indigenous people in Norway and in Russia are granted by special scholarships and quota programs for admission to the Universities, where a number of seats are preserved for them. This study examines the intentions, regulations, scope and the results of these mechanisms. It also discusses definition of indigenous people, the role of affirmative action for the state, the meaning of higher education for indigenous people, and, in general, the need for affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people. The main finding of this thesis is the mismatch of the intents and implementations of affirmative action. Affirmative action was aimed to equalize opportunities of indigenous people to majority people, which justify regulations of affirmative action that may seem to be discriminatory at the first glance. However, practices of affirmative action in higher education in case of Norway and Russia are not large scale and did not bring as notable results as I would have expect from the intents of it. |
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The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) |
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The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) |
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The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) |
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The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) |
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The role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of Yakutsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) |
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role of affirmative action in higher education for indigenous people: the case of yakutsk (russia) and tromsø (norway) |
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UiT Norges arktiske universitet |
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2014 |
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