Envisioning the Future of Indian Higher Education in the Post-Covid Era: Challenges and Possibilities

Saumen Chattopadhyay ()
Additional contact information
Saumen Chattopadhyay: Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, SSS, JNU

A chapter in Managing Pandemic and Correcting Development Fundamentals, 2023, pp 65-83 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter seeks to understand and anticipate the future of the Indian higher education in the Post-Covid era in the wake of the implementation of the New Economic Policy (NEP) 2020. The chapter begins with the conceptualization of the debatable issue of whether higher education as a public good or common good. This is followed by a brief discussion of the challenges facing the Indian higher education system and how are they being addressed in the proposed NEP. This is followed by a discussion on the possible implications for the two major functions of the universities such as teaching and doing research with the academic profession being at the center of discussion. We broaden the context of the discussion by bringing in a major force which is gaining momentum, i.e., internationalization. We end this chapter with a discussion on the major issues and objectives, access and equity, conceptualization of quality, autonomy and accountability and the nature of public good character of higher education. We conclude with observations for the evolving market for higher education and the nature of public character of higher education focusing on inclusive expansion and attainment of quality education.

Keywords: New Economic Policy (NEP) 2020; Indian higher education; Its public good character; Functions of the universities of teaching and research; Internationalization; Market for higher education; Access; Equity; Autonomy and accountability; Inclusive expansion and quality education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-19-8680-2_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811986802

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8680-2_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in India Studies in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().