Privatization Of Education

Education is extremely important for the development of a nation. It is the process of instruction aimed at all round development of youth. It is the only wealth that cannot be robbed. Learning includes the moral values and the improvement of character and the methods to increase the strength of mind. Education enables people to cause and to contribute to societal development. Education has the responsibility for transferring human beings into human resources (Gopalan, 2001). Development of human resources is the main function of education. In a modern society education is a very important sector. Education, at the individual level helps in the process of socialization. At the level of society, it ensures that the traditional wisdom passes

The decade of 2000 has been associated with the processes of expansion, privatization and internationalization of higher education. Privatization of higher education has emerged in several forms in the recent decades in India. This includes privatisation within government higher education institutions in the form of introducing self-financing courses, converting government aided private institutions into private self–financing institutions and expansion of self-financing private institutions (Singh and Purohit 2011). Thus, the growth of unaided course in private aided institutions and unaided institutions should be treated as a process of privatisation of higher education.

One of the major differences between aided and unaided institutions is with regard to funds. While the aided colleges are supported by the government, the unaided colleges have to raise their own funding. Aided colleges need not have only aided courses. In fact, many of the aided colleges do have many unaided courses which are also referred to as self-financing courses. This implies that development of unaided courses in private aided colleges is contributory for growth of private sector

But if the teacher is under stress then she / he cannot work effectively and has a negative attitude towards the job. The teachers appointed in self-financing courses are deprived of many benefits which are offered to a permanent/regular teacher. The teachers in self-finance courses are not only getting considerably very less salary but they also suffer on other grounds of insecurity of job, work load, promotions, other benefits, status in society, role conflict, harassment etc. When all these factors are in favor of teachers then they are satisfied otherwise they are under job stress. One of the most pivotal variables that affects the performance of a teacher is working condition. Good working condition is primary requisite for any successful teaching learning process. If the teachers are satisfied with working condition, they will be in a position to fulfill the educational objectives and national goals in a much better way. The present study is focused on the teachers in self-financing courses in Mumbai, The broad aim of the present study is to understand and analyse the working conditions of teachers in self-financing