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Opportunities Galore! Growth Unlimited! Business, Higher Education Policy and the Neoliberalisation of Indian Higher Education

Thawer, Shelina; (2019) Opportunities Galore! Growth Unlimited! Business, Higher Education Policy and the Neoliberalisation of Indian Higher Education. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

This thesis is about money in Indian Higher Education (HE) policy. More specifically, it is about describing the processes of neoliberalisation of the Indian Higher Education sector which reveals the prevalence of money and how education policy itself can serve as a profit opportunity for business. This thesis draws on Foucault’s concept of governmentality, understood as a means of steering and guiding the conduct of individuals, and deploys the approach of ‘following policy ’ and Social Network Analysis as its methodological and analytical tools to describe these processes of neoliberalisation. It identifies the key policy actors in Indian HE policy formulation, and describes how the socio-economic nature of their networks facilitate the flow of policy, ideas, practices, influence and money, within and between their multi-sited networks, and facilitate in reforming the Indian HE sector. The thesis illustrates how incremental policy moves which render and transform ideas into reformative imperatives, alongside the introduction of legislative measures and the creation of new institutions by the Government of India, serve to privilege and incentivise business to invest in the Indian HE sector. It demonstrates that the Government of India is an active - and necessary - facilitator of a form of network governance as it shifts the responsibility of Indian HE to business leaders and their networks, thereby situating the private sector - and the profit motive - centre stage of Indian HE policy, provision and delivery. It is intended that this analysis will contribute to the understanding of the vested interests in India’s HE sector while enabling an enhanced comprehension of the strategies that can promote, facilitate and advance policy reform alliances as India prepares to become a global player in HE.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: Ph.D
Title: Opportunities Galore! Growth Unlimited! Business, Higher Education Policy and the Neoliberalisation of Indian Higher Education
Event: UCL (University College London)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author 2019. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086862
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