TY - JOUR AU - Powar, Krishnapratap B. PY - 2015/05/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - India’s Private Universities: Solutions or Problems? JF - International Higher Education JA - IHE VL - 0 IS - 81 SE - Private Higher Education DO - 10.6017/ihe.2015.81.8731 UR - https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/8731 SP - 10-12 AB - <p>In India, private universities are a response to the growing demand, in a demographically young country, for higher education; and the inability of the government to fulfill its social responsibility relating to provision of higher education. For the ‘haves’ they provide a solution to the problem of access. For the ‘have nots’ they are a social evil, responsible for widening the economic and social divide.</p> ER -