On the Neo-Liberal Paradigm of Higher Education : An Apprehensive Note

The present paper consists of a modest attempt at tracing the trajectory of the post-war dominance of neo-liberal economic perspective on higher educational policy and finance with its far-reaching ramifications with respect to contemporary trends in educational outcomes and standard. It is argued that rapid expansion and vocationalisation of higher education, two complementary trends, which have been among the foremost post-war offshoots of the human capital philosophy of education, have had grave potential for degenerating standard, rigor and mainspring higher academic education