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The public nature of higher education implies an equitable access to higher education at a nominal price. Higher education should be funded by the government and is produced not for the sake of profit. In recent years, Government has been relying more on promoting privatisation and market friendly principles such as competition, ranking and loan based financing. It has been introducing majors of accountability upon teachers as well as the institutions of higher education. The present volume is a critic of current practices in the pathway for public higher education in the future.
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In the words of Samuelson, public good is one where the consumption by one individual does not diminish the consumption of another individual (Samuelson 1954, p. 387).
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Bhushan, S. (2019). Contesting the Present in the Evolution of Public Higher Education. In: Bhushan, S. (eds) The Future of Higher Education in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9061-7_1
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