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Shastri News - July 2009

Private provisions necessary for future of world’s higher education

Like it or not, demand for higher education around the world is growing too rapidly for public institutions to sustain. This fact was made abundantly clear at the second World Conference on Higher Education which concluded July 8th in Paris. Two reports submitted to the conference reveal that private institutions now manage 30 per cent of the world’s higher education enrollment. In India, private institutions manage between 60 to 70 per cent.

Over 1,000 participants, including 100 ministers/vice-ministers of education attended the conference held by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In the decade since UNESCO’s last conference on higher education, enrollment in post-secondary institutions has risen by more than 50 per cent. Private institutions are stepping in to meet this overwhelming demand, leading to several new challenges and questions for conference participants to consider. While the conference communiqué acknowledged that private financing ought to be encouraged, it also emphasized the importance of protecting higher education as a “public good.”

Many fear that private providers put commercial considerations before academic standards. A trend report prepared by Boston College’s Centre for International Higher Education states that, in general, the private sector offers access to students who might not be qualified for public institutions. They also run on the business model, which can concentrate power in boards and chief executives while faculty hold little authority and students are seen as consumers. Private institutions may provide solutions to the problems of access and cost but their key issue is quality.

Sir John Daniel, president and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning asked at the conference whether it was possible today to increase access, improve quality and decrease cost at the same time. Throughout history it has seemed to be impossible but he argues that technology might be opening doors that have never been opened before. He cites open universities like the Indira Gandhi National Open University as successful examples of the use of technology to improve access, quality and cost.

Kapil Sibal, India’s minister of human resource development spoke at the conference supporting the case for private involvement while calling upon UNESCO to play a role improving/maintaining the quality of education so that private players do not become ‘teaching sweat-shops.’ “The private sector has to come. But we will have to regulate it and there will be a law soon for it,” said Sibal to the Lok Sabha Wednesday July 15, 2009. The quality of private educators is of key concern to him as he seeks to expand involvement in higher education in India.

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