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This book presents the state-specific dimensions of the governance of higher education in Bihar, India, based on a real-case perspective. It discusses the policies of the center and state governments, and their implications on the state'shigher education system. It addresses theissues and challenges faced by the higher education sector from the point of view of multiple stakeholders at center, state, university and college levels, while examining influential power centers. The volume focuses on select universities in the state and looks at how they manage policies, schemes and regulations. It deals with key themes such as the role of state and regulatory bodies such as the University Grants Commission; thebalance of power; resource scarcity; the inadequacy of top-down governance models; governance failure; and theautonomy of universities. It explores the conflictbetween the politics and economics of governance and efficiency; the promotion and recruitment of senior office-bearers and teachers; the privatization of colleges; and financing, admission and examination systems. Through an in-depth study using empirical unit-level data from the All-India Survey of Higher Education, examples and theoretical frameworks, the book analyzes the reasonsfor theunderperformance of the governance system of higher education in Bihar. It also offers suggestions and policy recommendations to help improve its planning and management via participative and responsible governance and informed institutional leadership. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of education, higher education, economics, governance and public administration, and development studies. It will also be useful to educationists and experts, education administrators, policymakers, bureaucrats and the governing bodies of higher education institutions.

I pose the problems of quality in higher education to be addressed through a bureaucratic, technology-centric and accountability-based framework. It relies heavily on quantitative, information-based and ideal institutional system of higher education. The new political economy of the twenty-first-century higher education creates the balance of power in favour of state and utilises the individual choice and market-based principle of governance. The article argues the alternative in terms of shifting the power in favour of academia. The power of academia shall be realised only if the attention is focussed both on creation as well as the purpose of knowledge in the twenty-first century. Universities need to be hermeneutic for allowing the scope of creative activity and accommodate the voices of marginalised sections. It means practical rationality should guide the academia and administrators of higher education. JEL Code: I2, I28