Effect of Privatisation and College Autonomy on Quality in Higher Education: Parents’ Perception relating to their Satisfaction
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The objectives of the study were to investigate i) the independent effect of privatisation on quality in higher education in terms of parents’ perception; ii) the independent effect of college autonomy on quality in higher education in terms of parents’ perception, and iii) the interaction effect of privatisation and college autonomy on quality in higher education in terms of parents’ perception relating to their satisfaction with infrastructural facilities, quality of teachers, curriculum, quality of teaching, co-curricular activities, educational climate, extension services activities, examination and students support services. A sample of 120 parents mainly fathers (mothers in case fathers not alive) 30 each whose sons or daughters were studying in government autonomous colleges, private autonomous colleges, government non-autonomous colleges and private non-autonomous colleges were selected randomly using multi stage sampling technique. The Satisfaction Scale for Parents developed by the investigator was used to collect data. The “f” test used to analyze data revealed that i) quality of higher education in government colleges was better than the quality of higher education in private colleges as parents of students studying in government colleges were highly satisfied with different quality dimensions of higher education compared to the parents of students studying in private colleges. ii) quality of higher education in autonomous was better than the quality of higher education in non-autonomous colleges as perceived by parents, and iii) there found interaction effect of privatization and college autonomy on quality in higher education as perceived by parents of students relating to their satisfaction with infrastructural facilities, quality of teachers, curriculum, quality of teaching, co-curricular activities, educational climate, extension services activities, examination and students support services.
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