1 / 17

Restructuring Higher Education: Public-Private Partnerships

MOLLY N.N. LEE, UNESCO BANGKOK, email: m.lee@unescobkk.org. Restructuring Higher Education: Public-Private Partnerships. OUTLINE. Restructuring of HE Public-Private Debate Public-Private Partnership Implications on Role of the State . Neoliberal Ideology. Shrinking of the welfare state

efia
Download Presentation

Restructuring Higher Education: Public-Private Partnerships

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. MOLLY N.N. LEE, UNESCO BANGKOK, email: m.lee@unescobkk.org Restructuring Higher Education: Public-Private Partnerships

  2. OUTLINE • Restructuring of HE • Public-Private Debate • Public-Private Partnership • Implications on Role of the State

  3. Neoliberal Ideology • Shrinking of the welfare state • Cutbacks in social expenditure • Privatization of public services • Restructuring higher education

  4. Higher Education Context • Diversity in Asia-Pacific • Face common problems in HE • Increasing social demand for HE • Budgetary constraints • Let the buyer Pay • To do more with less

  5. Restructuring Higher Education • Privatization of higher education • Corporatization of public universities

  6. Restructuring HE • Liberalization of HE sector • Deregulation in traditional PHE systems • Regulation in new PHE systems

  7. Restructuring HE • Diversified funding sources • Increased institutional autonomy • Increased accountability

  8. Public-Private Debate Arguments based on: • Efficiency • Equity • Diversity and Choice

  9. Higher Education as a Public Good • Definition: non-rival and non-excludable • The publicness and privateness of higher education: • Mission or purpose • Ownership • Source of revenue • Expenditure control • Regulations or control over other aspects • Norms of management

  10. Higher Education as a Private Commodity • HE as private investment • HE credentials as competition for scarce social position • HEIs selling their services • HE as an industry • HE as a tradeable service

  11. Higher Education as a Market • “education for the market” and “markets for education”. • An educated person or an accredited person • Vocationalization of the HE curricula • Turn students to consumers and educators into service providers • “what do I need?” replace “what ought I do?” • Shift from production of social knowledge to marketable products.

  12. Public-Private Nexus • H.E. is both a public and private good with both public and private interest

  13. Public-Private Mix FINANCE State II Public U. I Japanese Private U. CONTROL External Internal Semipublic U. III Corporatized U. People founded U. IV Private U. Public Corp. U. Market

  14. Public-Private partnerships • P-P as a derivative of privatization • P-P as management reform • P-P as problem conversion • P-P as risk shifting • P-P as restructuring public services

  15. P-P Mixes in HE • State govt and private companies (state/provincial universities, deemed universities) • Public universities and private companies (affiliated colleges, foreign branch campuses) • Public universities and private colleges (franchised progs) • Consortia of public univs (OUM, Universitas 21) • Non-profit private universities (political parties, people founded univs in Vietnam and China)

  16. P-P Mixes in HE • Public subsidies to private institutions (Japan, India) • Faculties from public universities teaching in private institutions (Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam) • Students on govt loans studying in private institutions • Outsourcing of student services in public university campuses • P-P in research with industry • P-P in offering professional services (professors in medical faculties)

  17. Expanding Role of the State • Provider, regulator, protector • Supervisory and steering role

More Related