Higher Education, Public Good and Markets

✍ Scribed by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book critically examines some of the major trends in the development of higher education. It demonstrates how in the context of liberalisation, globalisation and marketisation, the crisis in higher education has assumed different dimensions in all advanced and emerging societies. The author shows how the state tends to slowly withdraw from the responsibility of higher education, including in the arena of policy-making, or simply adopts a policy of laissez-faire (of non-involvement) which helps in the rapid unbridled growth of private sector in higher education. The notion of higher education as a public good is under serious contestation in current times. The book argues for the need to resurrect the compelling nature of higher education along with its several implications for public policy and planning, while providing a broad portrayal of global developments, comparative perspectives and key lessons.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of education, political science, public policy and administration, governance, development studies, economics, and those working in the higher education sectors, think-tanks, policymakers as well as NGOs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Higher education: a public good or a commodity for trade? Commitment to higher education or commitment of higher education to trade
2 Higher education between the state and the market
3 Are we marching towards laissez-faireism in higher education development?
4 Lessons from cost recovery in education
5 Financing of higher education: traditional versus modern approaches
6 The privatisation of higher education
7 Current trends in the private sector in higher education in Asia
8 Higher education in the BRIC countries: comparative patterns and policies
9 Economics of internationalisation of higher education
10 Social control on higher education
11 Higher education and development in Asia
12 Universities: an endangered species?
Index