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Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
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Introduction, Simon Marginson (University of Oxford, UK), N. V. Varghese (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India) and Saumen Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
1. Directions of Change in Higher Education in India, N.V. Varghese (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India)
2. Financing of Higher Education in India: Issues and Challenges, Saumen Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) and Jinusha Panigrahi (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India)
3. Equity in Higher Education for Inclusive Growth: Evidence from India, N. V. Varghese (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India), Nidhi Sabarwal (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India) and C. M. Malish (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India)
4. Privatization versus Private Sector in Higher Education in India, N.V. Varghese (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India) and Nivedita Sarkar (Ambedkar University, India)
5. The Dynamics of Union-State Relations and Higher Education in India, Anamika Srivastava (O.P. Jindal Global University, India) and Saumen Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
6. Changing Contours of Regulations in Indian Higher Education, Saumen Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) and Emon Nandi (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)
7. Issues and Challenges in the Internationalisation of Indian Higher Education, Saumen Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
8. Engineering Education in India, J. B. G. Tilak (Council for Social Development, India) and Pradeep K Choudhury (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
9. Teachers and Students as Political Actors in Indian Higher Education, Aishna Sharma (Shiv Nadar University, India), Vanessa Chisti (O.P. Jindal Global University, India) and Binay Kumar Pathak (RNAR College, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, India)
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About the author
Saumen Chattopadhyay is Professor at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies (ZHCES), School of Social Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India.
Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK, Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education.
N. V. Varghese is Vice Chancellor of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), India.
Summary
Higher education is vital to India’s future, creating democratic citizens and a modern economy, building communities and cities and conducting research the country needs to continue its advance. Yet, with two thirds of people of India living in rural areas and urban incomes below the world average, in a culturally diverse country, the tragic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and profound problems of regional, social and gender inequalities, higher education faces many challenges. This book brings together experts and emerging researchers from India and the UK to discuss these issues and to explore positive solutions. The team shine the spotlight on financing and funding, governance and regulation, sector organisation and institutional classification, equity and social inclusion, the large and poorly regulated private sector, Union-State relations in higher education, student political activism, and internationalisation.
Foreword
Explores the challenges of quality, accessibility and cost, variability in provision and standards, and coordination, governance and management in India’s fast growing higher education sector
Additional text
This book is an important contribution to the study of HE, bringing the scholarship of this sector in India up to date. By engaging critically with issues brought about by neoliberalism, this volume charts a path forward for the development of Indian HE. Indian policymakers would benefit from reading it.
