Abstract:While the proliferation of university education in South Asia has raised expectations for a prosperous and socially just future, universities have failed on several counts. Low quality of educational provisions in combination with persisting political instabilities and a shortage of salaried jobs have placed educated young people in a situation described by some scholars as a ‘crisis of youth’. The analysis presented in this chapter draws on research conducted with university students from socially marginalize… Show more
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