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Papers by Jandhyala TILAK

India studies in business and economics, Dec 31, 2022

Routledge eBooks, Oct 16, 2017

Conventionally, higher education is regarded as a public good, benefiting not only the individual... more Conventionally, higher education is regarded as a public good, benefiting not only the individuals but also the whole society by producing a wide variety of externalities or social benefits. Of late, however, the chronic shortage of public funds for higher education, the widespread introduction of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization in every country and in every sector, and the heralding of the international law on trade in services by the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Trade and Services-all tend to challenge the long-cherished, well-established view of many that higher education is a public good, and to propose and legitimize the sale and purchase of higher education, as if it is a normal commodity meant for trade. The very shift in perception on the nature of higher education from a public good to a private good-a commodity that can be traded-will have serious implications. The paper describes the nature of the shift from viewing higher education as a public good to a private, tradable commodity and its dangerous implications.

Inclusive growth is regarded as the new mantra of development. This chapter critically looks at t... more Inclusive growth is regarded as the new mantra of development. This chapter critically looks at the approach to the development of education outlined in the Approach to the Eleventh five-year plan, some of the new and not-so-new strategies proposed, a few controversial proposals, the assumptions that underlie them, the issues conveniently ignored and highlights the weaknesses and the continuation of the big policy vacuum.

Educational statistics assume greater significance today than ever in view of the structural and ... more Educational statistics assume greater significance today than ever in view of the structural and systematic changes that are rapidly taking place in the social and economic sectors in India. The chapter reviews the current status of educational statistics, identify and discuss problems relating to educational statistics including their reliability, comparability of data collected by various institutions, gaps in data and the bottlenecks in their timely processing and dissemination, and outline important strategies for streamlining and improving the whole system.

United Nations Centre for Regional Development eBooks, 1988

Developing Economies, Mar 10, 2023

Indian Journal of Human Development, Dec 1, 2021

Pankaj Jalote (Ed.), Building Research Universities in India (SAGE Studies in Higher Education). ... more Pankaj Jalote (Ed.), Building Research Universities in India (SAGE Studies in Higher Education). SAGE Publications, 2021, 415 pp., ₹1495, ISBN: 9789353885021 (Hardback).

Journal of contemporary educational research, Dec 23, 2019

Over the last several centuries, the concept of university is undergoing dramatic change, the cha... more Over the last several centuries, the concept of university is undergoing dramatic change, the change being ever dynamic. Quite a few new generations of universities emerged and one notices a clear contrast between the ancient and the modern ones, including the ones set up during the medieval times. While searching for new and innovative modes of developing universities today in the twenty-first century, there is a lot that one can learn from a reading of the history of some of the ancient universities, in their nature, scope, coverage, planning, funding, spread, teacher-student relations, institution-community relations and many other aspects. Concentrating on ancient universities of India, the article draws a few important lessons relevant for development of universities in the twenty-first century.

Public financing of education is a State responsibility and the contribution of external aid or p... more Public financing of education is a State responsibility and the contribution of external aid or private sector is negligible and also not desirable. The attention education sector has received in recent years is clearly reflected in sheer decline in financial allocations in proportion of national income or total budgetary resources. The chapter analyses the sorry state of affairs, while emphasising that for comprehensive economic, social and human development there is no alternative to State fulfilling its duty towards adequately financing education.

International Journal of Educational Development, 2001

Elsevier eBooks, 2010

The National University of Educational Planning and Administration is a specialized public instit... more The National University of Educational Planning and Administration is a specialized public institution of higher education that is involved in research, training, consultancy, and teaching in the area of educational policy, planning, and administration, operating at the national and international levels. This article provides a brief glimpse of its genesis, growth, the nature and functions, and its contributions to research and training in the area of education development.

Lessons from Cost Recovery in Education JANDHYALA BG TILAK In policy terms, neo-liberals and stru... more Lessons from Cost Recovery in Education JANDHYALA BG TILAK In policy terms, neo-liberals and structuralists differ primarily in the extent to which they advocate state involvement in market processes (see Colclough 1991< a: 1). This chapter attempts to assess the arguments of ...

The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 1980

In India, women, backward castes, and people in rural areas constitute the weaker sections. These... more In India, women, backward castes, and people in rural areas constitute the weaker sections. These three groups are subject to several forms of discrimination. This study, based on data collected through a sample survey in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh conducted in 1977-78 covering about 1,000 members in the work force, highlights two facets of discrimination?discrimination in employ ment and discrimination in wages. The coefficients of discrimination in employment by sex and place (rural-urban) and in wages by sex, caste, and place are estimated. In each case, the coefficients of wage discrimination are estimated by age and educational levels and the coefficients of employment discrimination by educational levels only. The author finds, among other things, that the incidence of unemployment is higher among women than among men at every level of education; that the unemployment rate among the highly educated is higher in rural areas than in urban areas; and that there is subtasntial discrimination in the labour market with gard to wage against the weaker sections.

Springer eBooks, 2018

Using the 52nd round of the National Sample Survey, supplemented by the data available from the l... more Using the 52nd round of the National Sample Survey, supplemented by the data available from the latest All-India Education Survey, an attempt at unravelling several dimensions of deprivation of education of the poor in India is made here. The chapter exposes the most disturbing feature of the Indian education system, i.e., utter lack of equity in access to education over different economic classes of people. The evidence on the Indian States and also the evidence by household expenditure groups confirm significant, strong and inverse correlation between levels of educational attainment and levels of poverty. Participation in education is a consistently increasing function of household economic levels and the conformity of such a systematic pattern in case of all groups of population—rural, urban, male and female, rather with no exception at all is strikingly clear. The factors that explain low participation and high dropout rates of the poor are also analysed.

Growth of some disciplines and neglect of others Emphasis on open learning systems Overall neglec... more Growth of some disciplines and neglect of others Emphasis on open learning systems Overall neglect of higher education New plans for expansion Recent (NKC/XI Plan) Initiatives Recent (NKC/XI Plan) Initiatives Recent Initiatives Recent Initiatives Research Fellowships