ABSTRACT
Perhaps by pure coincidence, the Pathways programme to support marginalised students in higher education in india took shape at a historic moment when discourses of ‘knowledge societies’ and ‘knowledge economies’ began to redefine the very idea of knowledge and therefore that of higher education in an international context. Initiated by the Ford Foundation as a global programme, in India, the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) version of Pathways had the specific vision of nurturing marginalised students through supplementary educational programmes on campus.
