For instance, in the towns of Dharmapuriand Arco, students often may need to walk anywhere from “3-6 km to reach a middle or highschool”.

In pre-colonial times, Brahmin children (of both genders) were taught "elementary education" by a tutor at home inside the agraharam.

[4] A watercolor painting called "Hindu school at Poona" depicts children studying.

[6] At the turn of the 19th century, the Maratha Deshastha and Telugu Niyogis were far more prominent than the Tamil Brahmins.

[8] Schools like these allowed the Tamil Brahmins to rise from “lowly positions” to “Madras government service” and “deputy collector” and eventually become “the core of a new administrative elite”.

[9] Although, engineering prospects were low because the Public Works Department was hesitant about employing Indians.

[10] After independence, there were efforts made to make education access more available to people of lower classes.

[11] Although, this system of quotas was not perfect as it resulted in “lower-middle-class Brahmins…without good education qualifications” from getting secure government jobs.

[11] In private colleges, these brahmins usually have to pay “high capitation fees’” in order to get a seat.

Women’s marriage prospects were regarded as more important than their education until “the end of the twentieth century”.

[14] The wages from this type of work can be “very low”, which affects the quality of education that children who belong to agricultural families can acquire.

[16] Not only did this program give an incentive for rural families to send their children to school, it reduced the dropout rates by 90% in July 1982.

Tamil Nadu Directorate Of Technical Education (TNDTE) under the control of the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Department deals with Diploma, Post Diploma, Degree, Post Graduate courses and Research programmes.