The Decline of Higher Education

A friend's daughter has taken admission in the MA course in the department of linguistics in the University of Delhi. The total annual fee she has paid to the department is about Rs 1,400.
This includes examination fees (there are eight papers an MA student in linguistics is required to take at the end of the year), tuition fees (there are about a dozen professors and assistant professors attached to the department and they take regular classes) and library fees (the department has a full-fledged library and a phonetics laboratory in addition to the central reference library run by the University).
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