{"id":14214,"date":"2017-10-18T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:08:15","slug":"privatizing-higher-education-generating-knowledge-or-making-money-for-the-opulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/css-exclusive\/css-special\/privatizing-higher-education-generating-knowledge-or-making-money-for-the-opulent\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIVATIZING HIGHER EDUCATION: GENERATING KNOWLEDGE OR MAKING MONEY FOR THE OPULENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PRIVATIZING<\/a><\/p>\n

1) Introduction<\/strong><\/span>
\n2) Education and its types<\/strong><\/span>
\n3) Importance of education in society<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

a. Importance of education in general<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Provides knowledge and skills
\nii. Builds up personality and character
\niii. Inculcates sanity and civilization in society
\niv. Embellishes the look and the image of the state
\nv. Invigorates political, social and economic sectors of the state<\/p>\n

b. Importance of higher education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Imparts technical knowledge
\nii. Provides better lot to the job market
\niii. Plays direct role in development of the country
\niv. Opens avenues of earning foreign exchange<\/p>\n

4) Privatization of higher education<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

a. What is it?<\/strong><\/span>
\nb. What are its objectives?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. To share the burden with the government in accommodating scads of students
\nii. To enable the government to concentrate on the provision of basic education
\niii. To provide more erudite and learned faculty to students
\niv. To promote excogitation, research and innovation
\nv. To provide an environment that is conducive to learning
\nvi. To supply well-prepared and well-equipped minds to the job market<\/p>\n

5) On-ground situation after the privatization of higher education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

a. Privatizing as a source of generating knowledge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Establishing of private institutions in a huge number facilitating a large number of students
\nii. Provision of learning opportunities in multifarious fields
\niii. Provision of higher education facilities in remote and secluded areas
\niv. Creation of an environment of contest and competition
\nv. Introduction of technology in the learning process
\nvi. Designing of syllabus in accordance with the global trends and tendencies
\nvii. Imparting of quality education through well- paid, highly-qualified and deft faculty
\nviii. Provision of more opportunities of getting education in prestigious foreign institutions<\/p>\n

b. Privatization as source of making more money for the opulent<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Exorbitant fees
\nii. Donation culture
\niii. Hidden charges
\niv. Charges in the name of entertainment<\/p>\n

6) Do the demerits of privatizing higher education outweigh its merits?<\/strong><\/span>
\n7) Causes of money-making\/approach of private institutions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Poor regulatory mechanism
\nii. Presence of the fee-affording class
\niii. Role of the media in enhancing materialism
\niv. Fee: a criterion to gauge the quality of education
\nv. Business-minded approach
\nvi. Weak and toothless laws
\nvii. Vested interests of the lawmakers and law- enforcers
\nviii. Soaring inflation
\nix. Poor quality of education in government institutions
\nx. Limited space and capacity of government institutions
\nxi. Increase in competition in job market
\nxii. Different engagements of politicians and the government
\nxiii. Advertisement costs<\/p>\n

8) Recommendations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Improvement in the functioning of regulatory bodies
\nii. Enactment of stringent laws
\niii. Provision of subsidy by the government
\niv. Capacity-building of public sector education institutions
\nv. Across-the-board implementation of laws and policies
\nvi. Devising of long-term policies for purging the society of the evil of materialism<\/p>\n

9) Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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