1st Edition

Higher Education Financing in India Student Loans and Equity in Access

By Jinusha Panigrahi Copyright 2022
156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book critically examines the questions related to the access to and financing of higher education in India. The rapid expansion of knowledge economy in the neo-liberal era of globalisation has created an unprecedented demand for higher education, especially skill-based advanced learning. However, the inability of the government to meet the demand for public education, the massification of... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Financing of Higher Education 3. Issues of Access and Choice in the Stage of Massification 4. Policy Trending towards Loan Financing as an Alternative 5. Experimenting with Other Innovative Methods of Financing 6. Conclusion 

Biography

Jinusha Panigrahi is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics of Education from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the Co-Chair Person (2018–21 and 2021–24) of the Economics and Finance Education – Special Interest Group, Comparative International Education Society, United States of America. She has several years of experience in teaching and research. Jinusha’s research work lies in the areas of economics of education, financing of higher education, internationalisation, privatisation and private higher education. She is the co-editor of ‘India Higher Education Report 2018 on Financing of Higher Education’ (2019) and ‘Financing of Higher Education: Traditional approaches and Innovative Strategies’ (2022).

Jinusha is the recipient of the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Award by the United States Department of State, Washington, DC, in 2018 for ‘Furthering USA-India Relationships in Higher Education’. She is also the recipient of the Central European University (CEU) summer school scholarship on ‘Innovative Financing for Education: Arguments, Options and implications’ in Budapest, Hungary, in 2016.