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In the last few decades, India has experienced several shifts in the policies pertaining to the financing of higher education. These shifts include a move from public financing to keep pace with the expansion requirements of the sector; the strengthening of market forces in higher education both through privatisation of public institutions and operation of private institutions; and a move from the financing of institutions to the financing of students. The Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) has initiated major research activities to understand how the recent changes have affected the financing of higher education in India and how the higher education institutions cope with and respond to these changes. India Higher Education Report 2018, the fourth volume in the series, presents this study to provide a comprehensive analysis of financing of higher education in India. This book investigates the changing dynamics and related key issues including state–market dynamics, university–industry linkages, foreign aid, institutional strategies to overcome shortages in funding, issues with self-financing courses, educational loans and fee reimbursement schemes, expansion and financing of private higher education.

Contents: Preface. 1. Financing of Higher Education: An Introduction/N. V. Varghese and Jinusha Panigrahi. I. State, Market and Financing of Higher Education: 2. State-Market Dynamics in Higher Education Financing/Saumen Chattopadhyay. 3. Towards Augmenting Resources: University–Industry Linkages/M. M. Ansari. 4. Foreign Aid for Higher Education in India/Sailabala Debi. 5. Gender Budgeting in Higher Education/Mona Khare. II. Reponses to Declining Public Funding: 6. Institutional Strategies to Overcome Declining Public Funding in Higher Education/Jinusha Panigrahi. 7. Self-Financing Courses in Public Institutions/Subir Maitra. 8. Changing Sources of Funding: A Study of Punjabi University/Harvinder Kaur. III. Student Financing in Higher Education: 9. Scholarship Schemes for Student Financing/M. R. Narayana. 10. Student Mortgage Loans vis-à-vis Income Contingent Loans: Problems and Prospects/Mausumi Das and Tridip Ray. 11. Public Financing of Private Education: A Case Study of Fee Reimbursement Scheme (FRS) in Andhra Pradesh/B Shiva Reddy and K Anji Reddy. IV. Privat Higher Education: 12. Growth and Expansion of Private Higher Education/M Muzammil. 13. Financing of Private Higher Education Institutions in India Sangeeta Angom. Index.