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Achala Gupta
Dr Achala Gupta is a lecturer at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. Her research focuses on investigating educational issues sociologically. Achala has contributed to the literature on comparative and international education through her research on: education delivery systems (formal and supplementary) and schooling practices in Asia, and students’ aspirations and transition within higher education in Europe. She has published articles on the heterogeneity of middle-class (dis)advantage, teacher-entrepreneurialism, social legitimacy and the organisational arrangements of private tutoring in India, as well as on how students are made sense of by policymakers, staff, the media and students themselves in Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Spain.