Changing Higher Education in India

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, and Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK. N. V. Varghese is Vice Chancellor of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), India.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsSeries Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviations 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)ReferencesIndex

This is an important and timely collection of essays, since it comes shortly after the publication of India's National Education Policy, which has opened new possibilities of reform of its system of higher education. For Indian higher education institutions to embrace these possibilities, they need evidence and analysis, which this book provides with great clarity and considerable sophistication.