Neo-liberalism's claim of being the vanguard of individual freedom works as the basis of popular support for education system reforms, which aim at making society receptive to the principles of free market In the process, contents and methods of teaching-learning are redesigned to build public consent for those reforms, while the real objectives are to possibly ensure a steady flow of skilled human resource for the market The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant changes in the education system are being used to increase acceptability of the reforms © 2020 Economic and Political Weekly All rights reserved
Neo-liberal reforms in higher education accelerated by the pandemic