Neoliberalism and Inequality in Higher Education

Dzuriyatun Toyibah

2018

Abstract

Neoliberalism has substantial impact on creating a market-oriented higher education system and as consequence it requires greater accountability, quality, and efficiency. Neo-liberalism in higher education has been implemented in some principles such as commodification, internationalization, and quality assurance. The university shifts into providing services, research, and labour to the industrial sector of the economy. Drawing from the existing literature, this paper discusses the consequences of neo-liberalism, especially to maintain inequality within higher education systems observedin some countries, including in Indonesia.There are two neoliberalism elements (commodification and quality assurance) that have been regarded as rather commonplace within the Indonesian higher education system. Contrarily, internationalisation, despite its mounting presence, is still scarcely discussed. The issue of inequality in Indonesian higher education may be traced backed to the reality in which there is a dual system of religious vs secular public higher education and the status of private vs public higher education institution. The three neoliberalism principles above will create immense inequality between higher education institutions, subsequently, students attending the top public secular higher education institution and private secular ones will enjoy better quality of higher education facility than students attending public religious and private secular or religious universities with lower accreditation rank.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Toyibah D. (2018). Neoliberalism and Inequality in Higher Education.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1590-1597. DOI: 10.5220/0009932415901597

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Dzuriyatun Toyibah},
title={Neoliberalism and Inequality in Higher Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1590-1597},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009932415901597},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Neoliberalism and Inequality in Higher Education
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Toyibah D.
PY - 2018
SP - 1590
EP - 1597
DO - 10.5220/0009932415901597