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Finance
Dilemmas:  Poor students vs. needs of teachers to be paid
Hidden Actors:  Government, inadequate teacher base salaries.  Policy of requiring part-payment for secondary education.
Resonance:  Similar conflict with special education funding in UK

Displaced
Dilemmas:  Repressed, destabilised students, uncertain class sizes/funding, no parental support
Hidden Actors:  Government, refugee policies and support, designation/funding of displacement destinations
Resonance: Closure of deaf school in UK, loss of specialist provision

English medium
Dilemmas:  Perpetuation of hierarchy via English fluency, double learning load of language and subject
Hidden Actors:  Government, policy re language, authors of education materials only in English
Resonance: Problem of trying to work abroad between English and local language.

Caste
Dilemmas:  Perpetuation of hierarchy via caste, limited solution of quotas cf. full solution of more equal quality in schools
Hidden Actors:  Government, policy re caste, residual social attitudes
Resonance: Failure to get into Oxbridge

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