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Private Universities' Participation in Open and Distance Learning for Enhanced Access to Higher Education Among Underserved in India

Private Universities' Participation in Open and Distance Learning for Enhanced Access to Higher Education Among Underserved in India

Akhilesh Kumar Pandey, Syed Mohammad Haider Rizvi
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781522526247|ISBN10: 1522526242|EISBN13: 9781522526254
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2624-7.ch009
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Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar, and Syed Mohammad Haider Rizvi. "Private Universities' Participation in Open and Distance Learning for Enhanced Access to Higher Education Among Underserved in India." Optimizing Open and Distance Learning in Higher Education Institutions, edited by Umesh Chandra Pandey and Verlaxmi Indrakanti, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 213-227. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2624-7.ch009

APA

Pandey, A. K. & Rizvi, S. M. (2018). Private Universities' Participation in Open and Distance Learning for Enhanced Access to Higher Education Among Underserved in India. In U. Pandey & V. Indrakanti (Eds.), Optimizing Open and Distance Learning in Higher Education Institutions (pp. 213-227). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2624-7.ch009

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Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar, and Syed Mohammad Haider Rizvi. "Private Universities' Participation in Open and Distance Learning for Enhanced Access to Higher Education Among Underserved in India." In Optimizing Open and Distance Learning in Higher Education Institutions, edited by Umesh Chandra Pandey and Verlaxmi Indrakanti, 213-227. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2624-7.ch009

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Abstract

It is now well recognised and understood that the higher education is one of the important components in accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations for the countries. However this important sector continues to remain a matter of concern in India primarily because of supply demand gaps, poor quality of teaching-learning, disparities in access and constraints on research & innovation. The conventional mainstream systems of education are able to serve a very small segment of the society. Alongside, new demands of education are fast emerging from the working class and who are away from the centre of activities. The scarce financial allocations from the Government are not able to meet the demand of education. Such a scenario threatens the sustained high growth of the Indian economic engine. The advent of private sector and the opening of private universities and other institutions for higher and professional education has now emerged as important factors that are, now, running sizeable number of professional degree programmes particularly management and engineering and accounts for 59% of all the tertiary enrolments in India. Despite a lot of scepticism about the role of private sector, there has been a policy thrust for private sector's participation in higher education. This paper discusses the needs of private universities and their roles in making access of higher education in masses. The authors have tried to explore the roles of vast network of private universities in expansion of open and distance learning in accordance with the issues and challenges.

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