Taken without context, the term ‘autonomy’ is generally associated with positive, progressive, even empowering connotations — with meanings ranging from freedom to self-government.
The selected universities that have been granted ‘autonomy’ are effectively being forced to turn to self-financing and to privatise, which will make quality higher education prohibitively expensive in the country and make it inaccessible to the people.
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