ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 explores contemporary trends and issues of privatisation of higher education in a number of selected Asian countries. This analysis traces how certain persisting trends have characterised the planning and provision of private higher education in these countries in order to situate contemporary trends of higher education privatisation in Bangladesh. These countries include China, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. In selecting the countries, rather than considering their geographical locations, we have considered a cross-section that features substantial diversity as well as similarities in their historical, economic, political and cultural profiles, as well as a wide-spectrum of policy rhetoric as significant markers in understanding the trends of privatisation of higher education Bangladesh. This chapter closely looks at how policies have not only travelled unidirectionally from the West to the East, but also from region to region.
