Commercialisation of higher education is ‘self-defeating’ School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Habib University,

Karachi

Blind marketisation of education and the commodification of knowledge must be avoided as they compromise quality and tend to make knowledge private property. This defeats the very aim of education, namely using it as an instrument for cultivating an intellectual and civil society.

These observations were made by Dr Farid Panjwani, senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education, Institute of Education, University of London, while speaking

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