ABSTRACT
This chapter 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.
