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Galgotias Is Not the Problem. The Marketplace Model of Education Is.

Galgotias is not the disease; it is a symptom. The deeper crisis lies in the steady commercialisation of private higher education, where universities increasingly compete for enrolment like corporations chasing market share. When growth targets eclipse academic purpose, students risk becoming customers and degrees risk becoming commodities. The problem, then, is not one campus — it is the logic that now governs too many of them.

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