Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control

This book examines the complexities of neoliberalism in Bangladesh's higher education sector, exploring how it has evolved over the past four decades and the complex politics behind its privatization. It discusses how changes have been characterized by policy reforms, massification, and a sustained friction between control and autonomy in the university sector. The authors take a nuanced approach to their geo-political and onto-epistemological positionalities as diasporic and hybridized scholars, rejecting epistemological exclusion inherent in the colonial present.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 156 pages
\n Publication date: 17 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive book delves into the intricate political dimensions of higher education privatization in Bangladesh, examining the complexities of neoliberalism as an economic and ideological doctrine, a mode of governance, and a policy package. It explores the 'post-colonial' relationship as more aspirational than achieved, drawing from an interdisciplinary study involving contemporary theories from political and social sciences, economics, and the socio-economics of education. The book sheds light on the unique evolution of Bangladeshi higher education over the past four decades, as well as the complex politics behind its privatization. Through an empirically based account of how neoliberalism has impacted the higher education sector in the fastest-growing economy in South Asia, it discusses the changes brought about by policy reforms, massification, and the ongoing tension between control and autonomy in the university sector.

The authors adopt a nuanced approach to their geo-political and onto-epistemological positionalities as diasporic and hybridized scholars, rejecting epistemological exclusion inherent in the colonial present and research conducted in such contexts. This position enables them to reinforce a colonial present, theorizing from within Global South de colonial and postcolonial research literature.

This book makes valuable contributions to discourses on 'globalization from above' and 'globalization from below,' shedding light on the often-idiosyncratic ways in which higher education reform has unfolded in South Asia. It will be of interest to comparative educators, as well as scholars researching higher education policy and education developments in Global South nations.

\n Weight: 400g\n
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367218713\n \n