The Evolving Landscape of Higher Education in India: Post-pandemic Policies and Transformations

Sudhanshu Bhushan

Jan 2025 · Springer Nature

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The edited volume discusses the long period of post-colonial developments in higher education in India. It examines the legitimacy of the policies pursued post-pandemic with a focus on the role of teachers and the students' voices. It addresses the essential question of how the technological ascendance in higher education addresses social justice. What is the role of teachers in a new landscape of higher education? It offers insights into the efficiency-centric proposition of the state-market-technology triad, the current paradigm of higher education worldwide. It presents evidence to understand how efficiency has a tradeoff with various aspects of social justice. The authors deal with questions, such as the challenges of privatization and how the commodification of higher education runs counter to the idea of inclusive higher education. The authors critically look at the online form of higher education and how it has led to the shrinkage of democratic spaces in higher education. It discusses the transformative role of teachers with increasing managerialism of higher education. The book highlights a deep understanding of the increasing role of the market and technology and their influence in negating an inclusive and democratic public space in higher education. It appeals to teachers and students by enabling them to understand the market's and technology's impacts on higher education. It has the potential to be a reference book in colleges and universities. It will help the large community of practitioners and policymakers guard against the dangers of overt marketization. The book benefits policymakers, university administrators and teachers, and researchers of higher education interested in governance, technology, teaching, and research in higher education.

About the author

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.

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