Year: 2015 | Month: February | Volume 60 | Issue 1
Growing private providers and constraints in the choice of higher education institutions: Impact on access to higher education
Jinusha Panigrahi
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2015.00004.2
Abstract:
The choice by students in higher education has assumed importance due to the forced intrusion of neo-liberal principles. In a market economy consumers are sovereign and thus, students should have freedom to choose their life path (the courses and institutes). But, financial constraints hinder them to get that liberty. In a pro-market economy, the proliferation of private higher education institutions to meet the growing demand for higher education and their higher fee structures put an impact on access by the underprivileged. They end up with higher education institutions not of their choice.
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