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Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Damtew Teferra
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction
    Damtew Teferra
    Pages 1-12
  3. Crisis of a Rich State: Botswana’s Dilemma in Financing Tertiary Education
    Victoria Omponye Damane, Patrick Molutsi
    Pages 13-37
  4. Funding Higher Education in Ethiopia: Modalities, Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects
    Moges Yigezu
    Pages 38-70
  5. Revenue Diversification and Resource Utilisation in Ethiopian Universities
    Kennedy Munyua Waweru, Sewale Abate
    Pages 71-97
  6. Implications of Alternative Higher Education Financing Policies on Equity and Quality: The Kenyan Experience
    Ibrahim Ogachi Oanda
    Pages 98-129
  7. Entrepreneurship as an Alternative Approach to Funding of Public Universities in Kenya
    Thomas Kipkorir Ronoh, Catherine K. Mumiukha, Anthony K. Sang
    Pages 130-146
  8. Challenges and Opportunities of Higher Education Funding Policies and Programs in Madagascar
    Elysette Randriamahenintsoa
    Pages 147-183
  9. Financing Higher Education in Malawi: Prospects, Challenges and Opportunities
    Steven Henry Dunga
    Pages 184-213
  10. Funding Higher Education in Tanzania: Modalities, Challenges, Prospects and a Proposal for New Funding Modalities
    Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma
    Pages 214-246
  11. Funding Higher Education in Uganda: With Special Emphasis on Donor’s Role and Contribution of National Communities Approaches
    Mark B. Oboko
    Pages 247-275
  12. Funding Higher Education in Uganda: Making the Case for the Liberalisation of Student Fees
    Jude Ssempebwa, Dalton E. Ssegawa
    Pages 276-295
  13. Students’ Perceptions of Financing Public Universities in Zambia: Toward a More Sustainable and Inclusive Policy Strategy
    Gift Masaiti
    Pages 296-326
  14. Funding Higher Education in Zimbabwe: Experience, Challenges and Opportunities of the Cadetship Scheme
    John Mpofu, Sylod Chimhenga, Onias Mafa
    Pages 327-350
  15. Conclusion
    Damtew Teferra
    Pages 351-363
  16. Back Matter
    Pages 365-372
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About this book

Introduction

Virtually all countries in the world are struggling to provide the necessary resources to Higher Education. The challenges are particularly complex for economically poor countries in Africa, which have recorded massive expansion in the past decade. This book analyzes the state of funding and financing higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords

Sub-Saharan Africa higher education funding Botswana Ethiopia Kenya Madagascar Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe education funding higher education university

Authors and affiliations

  • Damtew Teferra
    • 1
  1. 1.University of KwaZulu-NatalDurbanSouth Africa

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345783
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Education Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-46665-8
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-34578-3
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