Double Commoditisation of Education System
2,296 views · Published 10 June 2015 · 7:03 · Indexed 26 October 2026
Channel: NewsClickin · 2015 · News & Politics
Prabhat Patnaik spoke at a convention on “Questioning the Policy Directions in Higher Education”, organized by DUTA about the commercialisation of higher education. He explains that the education system everywhere is moving towards double commoditisation. One of these products would be student, who being a subject for the job market will be ready to pay any fee for corporate market oriented courses. The other commodification is of a few well-paid teachers, who will defend this system. According to Prabhat, this will lead to converting teachers to contract labour, who will carry the major burden of teaching. It will also reduce the chances of resistance by creating a divided workforce on basis of unequal pay. Prabhat fears that this process of intense privatisation will result in shutting down of those departments, which promote critical and logical thinking. He explains that this sort of phenomenon of rapid commercialisation is more visible in developing countries like India. The only reply to this process is building unified struggles of teachers, students and all those who believe that education should not be commodified in this way.
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