Globalization and Higher Education in India

Introduction

K. N. Panikkar and M. Bhaskaran Nair

Globalization which defines the current epoch of history is a socio-political process encompassing all aspects of social reality—economy, society, culture, values and education. In fact, the social and political institutions in most countries of the world are organized and structured on the basis of the neo-liberal ideology of globalization which emphasizes that ‘the market should be allowed to make social and political decisions,¹ that the state should voluntarily reduce its role in the economy or that corporations should be given total freedom and that the trade unions should be curbed and citizens should be given much less rather than more protection’ (Susan George 1999). This shift in development ...