The Future of Higher Education in India
The book analyses various challenges emanating from privatization, globalization and public financial crunch to understand the future directions of higher education in India. The book presents a careful understanding of structure, finance and governance o
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The Future of Higher Education in India
The Future of Higher Education in India
Sudhanshu Bhushan Editor
The Future of Higher Education in India
Editor Sudhanshu Bhushan Department of Higher and Professional Education National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Preface
The higher education research community is small in comparison to the vast diversity of institutions, students and teachers. The research agenda is currently focused on understanding the access and equity dimensions and reforms relating to quality in the midst of structural shift in favor of privatization in higher education. Indian higher education reform process is heavily guided through the regulation and is very much state-centered. What is most important to understand, however, is the decentering of state through the state-initiated reform affecting structure, financing, and agency of teachers and students. The book is an attempt to understand the change process affecting the future of higher education in terms of macro influences accompanied through the micro-level changes. Current research agenda should help us to understand more and more the micro-level changes associated with the shifts in the structure and financing of higher education. The aim of the book is to initiate the research agenda towards understanding the new phenomena. The current trends of policies may be projected to understand the future of higher education. Current trend influenc
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