ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the shifts and discourses in the way issues of equality are perceived in the realm of education in the United Kingdom and India within the larger backdrop of globalisation and the rise of neoliberal policies. It addresses the issue of formal labelling and how labels have often subsumed and camouflaged emerging inequalities. The chapter focuses on how the effects of globalisation, mainly driven by neoliberal forces of privatisation, have caused changes to policies and institutions and to the labelled groups themselves exacerbating the existing inequalities or introducing claims of new inequalities. It examines how the issues of caste, race and class intersect to further these new claims as well as the persisting inequalities in both school and higher education in both the countries. In both countries, the governments have been keen to point to sections of these groups who have moved beyond their original position of disadvantage — the creamy layer and the model minority.
