Evolving Landscape of Higher Education in India

Sudhanshu Bhushan is Professor and Head of the Department of Higher & Professional Education in the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA). He specializes in the Internationalization of Higher Education, Policy Issues in Higher Education, and Educational Planning. He is the co-editor of a book on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in India and Australia published by Routledge in 2018. His book, The Future of Higher Education in India, was published by Springer in 2019. The book on Governance of Higher Education in Bihar: Influence of Power Centers is published by Routledge in 2021. His present responsibility is to conduct and guide research and to provide policy support to the Government. He is the recipient of Amartya Sen Award 2012 for distinguished Social Scientist, an award instituted by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. He is the Managing Editor of the Indian Economic Journal. He is also the Academic Editor of Pariprekshya, the Hindi journal of NIEPA.

• Chapter 1: HigherEducation – State, Market and Technology Triad and its Implications.- Chapter 2: The necessity for a Decolonization of the Mind.- Chapter 3: The Agenda of Post-colonial Education.- Chapter 4: Breaking a Brand: The trials and Tribulations of JNU.- Chapter 5: Educational Policies and the New Normal: Multiple Pathways to Exclusion.- Chapter 6: Pandemic through the Lived Experiences of Educator and Educated: Becoming ‘Disenchanted’ from the ‘University Life’.- Chapter 7: The Quest for Social Justice: Identity and Everyday Student Politics during Pandemic.- Chapter 8: Reframing idea of social justice in Indian higher education.- Chapter 9: COVID-19 and digital learning in higher education in India: Unpacking the realities through socioeconomic and regional lenses.- Chapter 10: Indian Women and The Promise of Higher Education: an Intersection of Dreams, Expectations and Negotiations during Lockdown.- Chapter 11: Higher Education, Technology and the Social Imaginary of Science: Problematics and Futures.- Chapter 12: Economics of Online Higher Education in a post pandemic India.- Chapter 13: Invasion of MOOCs: A Historical and Critical Dialogue.- Chapter 14: The Digital University: Concerns around critical, dialogic and empathetic pedagogy.- Chapter 15: Anatomy of Select e-platforms: Meso and Micro Dynamics.- Chapter 16: Student Activism and Digital Education- A case Study of Jawaharlal Nehru University.- Chapter 17: Busting Myths and Revealing Fears: Technostress among.- Chapter 18: Teaching in the post Covid period: The questions of New normal and abnormal?- Chapter 19: An Exploration of Higher Education Teacher Education programmes: During and post-COVID-19 pandemic.- Chapter 20: The Pandemic, Teacher Education and Inclusion: Conceptions, Contestations and Confusions.