A Personal Reflection of India’s growth in its Private Higher Education Provision since Independence

Since independence in 1947, India has seen a prolific growth of private higher education provision predominantly since the beginning of the 1990s. This chapter is an overview of the prolific growth of private higher education provision which is over twice the size of the public sector. The prolific growth of these institutions in all sectors such as the arts, science, technology, medicine, business, and law has not emerged as a result of planning either by the state governments or the central government, but by the political, social, and economic changes that have been commanded by existing and emerging industries across the whole country.

The result of this expansion has seen many of these institutions seeking UK memorandum of understanding (MoU) as a means of providing international recognition of its home provision courses using its locally-trained graduates in providing internationally recognised degrees in key subjects as listed above.