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39 Soc. Change 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge39 and id is 1 raw text is: 1-28 Social Change : March 2009: Vol. 39 No. 1 Private sector in higher education: A few stylized facts* Jandhyala B.G. Tilak** The paper analyses a few important dimensions of the growth of private higher education, as a set of stylized facts. Though it largely focuses on India, but comparing and contrasting with evidence from other developing and developed countries it highlights the dangers involved in the unbridled growth of private education in the developing countries. Public education is the foundation of the prosperity of the nation... Antonio Garcia Cubas (1893). The issue of the modern private sector in higher education, has been the most dominant feature of the rapid growth of higher education in India during the last quarter century. While analysing quite a few important dimensions of private higher education, that I attempt to present as a set of stylized facts, I draw upon some of my earlier research on this issue. Secondly, though the focus of my lecture is India, I refer to other developing and developed countries, from which, I feel, valuable lessons can be drawn. I may start, however, with presenting a broad overview of the growth of higher education in India, as it developed over the last century and a half, and more specifically during the post-independence period. * This is a revised version of the ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) Distinguished Lecture, organized as a part of the commemorative celebrations of the 150th Year of the First War of Independence of India, delivered at the Centre for Multi- Disciplinary Development Research , Dharwad, Karnataka (India) on 14 February 2007. An earlier draft was also presented at the Workshop on Human Values in Economics and Related Disciplines organized by the Sri Sathya Sai University, Prashanti Nilayam (India) on 19-21 February 2007. The helpful comments and suggestions made by Sailabala Debi, K.L. Krishna, K. Krishnamurthy, N.S.S. Narayana, P.R. Panchamukhi, V.N. Pandit, V.M. Rao, D.U. Sastry, R. Gangadhar Sastry, S. Sivakumar, A. Vadiyanathan and other participants of the two programmes are gratefully acknowledged. ** National University of Educational Planning & Administration, 17-B, Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110016. <jtilak@vsnl.com>

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