• Ritu Parna Mahanta
• Sandeep Gupta

Abstract Education is not a homogeneous kind of institution. There is stratification within education. In education system different hierarchy and different levels of stratification or qualities of education, this is available in the market today like different elite or private schools to good government schools or to poor vernacular medium government schools. Guwahati being one of the fastest growing cities in the country has become the educational hub of the state as well as for the North- Eastern region. For the study the universe is 55 higher secondary schools (29 private schools+ 26 government vernacular medium schools) Source: RMSA, UDISE REPORT 2016-17, from Guwahati city. Hence the present study attempts to bring out the perception of the students who are studying at higher secondary level about the major structural as well as the functional aspects of the privatized and the public educational sectors which provide a diverse quality of human resource. Moreover the study is also important as it will be carried out to find out the perception of students about where the students produced from these diverse qualities of institutions are absorbed? The study confirms that a student who experiences inequalities on the basis of socio- economic background is again reinforced in the school. This inequality chases them in accessing the quality of higher education, the quality of the future occupation and life that they opt for themselves. Hence, in the light of the findings of the present study and the theoretical perspectives used to appreciate the realities depicted by data, it is found appropriate to propose for an alternative education model fundamentally different in content, form, methods and purpose which could provide an effective answer to the question of equality to which can be appropriately addressed in further study and research.

Education; Stratification; School; Mobility; Inequality.

"Unequal Schools as Source of Unequal Society: A Comparative study of Government and Private Higher secondary schools in Guwahati city of Assam.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.465-469, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903969.pdf

"Unequal Schools as Source of Unequal Society: A Comparative study of Government and Private Higher secondary schools in Guwahati city of Assam.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp465-469, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903969.pdf