Social Control on Higher Education

Abstract

This article reviews a few important dimensions relating to social
control on higher education. Social control on higher education has
to be studied in relation to social functions of and society’s responsibility
for higher education. Presently all the three aspects are under jeopardy.
Social control also includes control by not only the state, but also several
other actors. The state which is ideally expected to play a very significant
role in the development of higher education is unwilling to do so; in
contrast, the market the entry of which into the arena of education is
welcomed not by all, is very eager to take complete control of higher
education; and the rest of the society has been a helpless onlooker
only. In this overall context, it is critical that the public-good nature of
higher education is resurrected, so that higher education helps in
creating and building ‘social pressures’ for normative modes of social
control of higher education