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Title: Financial resources and institutional capacity in African higher education barriers to access and eq


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Financial resources and institutional capacity in
African higher education barriers to access and
equity?Pundy Pillay
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Access to Higher Education
  • Low GER (2005)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa 5
  • North Africa 28-30
  • Arab States 21
  • N.A. W. Europe 70
  • Latin America 30

3
Equity
  • Higher education access, financing, and outcomes
    stratified by
  • Socio-economic status
  • Gender
  • Location or region of origin

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Institutional capacity
  • Poor infrastructure
  • Academic and research staff poorly remunerated
    lack of motivation brain drain
  • Higher education managers

5
Higher Education Development
  • Why should poor countries invest in HE?
  • Traditional pattern of economic dev.
  • -Primary (agriculture, mining)
  • -Secondary (manufacturing)
  • -Tertiary (services)
  • Education Investment mirrored the above

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Contd.
  • Globalization is changing this traditional
    pattern of development?
  • Examples China, India also Brazil, Mexico,
    South Africa other MICs
  • HE thus assumes key role in globalized pattern
    of development.
  • Can enable countries to jump stages.

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Characteristics of HE in Africa
  • Low participation rates
  • But growing demand in the light of UPE and
    expanding secondary system
  • Defining what constitutes HE?
  • Predominantly state-funded but growing private
    system
  • Quantity vs quality

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Contd.
  • Inequality gender region socio-economic status
  • Challenges
  • -academic and other human resources
  • -infrastructure
  • -program balance
  • -research

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Higher Education Financing in SSA - Public
  • Inadequacy of public sector funding
  • Inefficiency of public sector spending
  • Inequity in the distribution of govt. spending

10
HE Financing - private
  • Private HE is relatively new.
  • Extent varies across the continent
  • Models vary
  • Wholly private
  • Private within public
  • Range large, good quality to small, poor quality

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Contd.
  • Private HE and the Poor
  • Challenges regulation quality loan financing.

12
Student Financing
  • Loan schemes in Africa - limited success
  • Two emerging success stories
  • Kenyas HELB (Higher Education Loan Board)
  • South Africas NSFAS (National Student Financial
    Aid Scheme)

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Investing in Higher Education
  • Private benefits
  • High
  • Better employment
  • Higher salaries
  • Greater long-term wealth
  • Better overall quality of life

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Public benefits
  • Understated
  • Education - teachers
  • Health nurses, doctors, etc.
  • Economic development
  • Promoting technological catch-up
  • Infrastructure development e.g. engineers

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Cause vs Consequence
  • HE is both a consequence and a determinant of
    higher incomes and growth
  • HE leads to higher incomes, higher tax revenues,
    higher savings and investment and therefore
    growth
  • HE leads to better health, lower fertility,
    reduced population growth
  • HE can lead to better governance, more effective
    conflict resolution and respect for human rights

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High Spenders, Low achievers
  • Number of African countries spending high of
    education budget on HE
  • -Mozambique (70)
  • -Lesotho (40
  • -Eritrea (31)
  • -Congo (27)
  • But little in terms of outcomes

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Conclusions
  • HE - a number of challenges for African govts.
  • Access
  • Quality
  • Efficiency
  • Equity
  • Addressing demand side questions growth labour
    markets and employment

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Key Financing Issues
  • Public sector financing
  • Equity and efficiency
  • Predictability of funding effective budgeting
    and planning, funding formulae
  • Tuition Fees
  • Loan Financing

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Contd.
  • Public private partnerships
  • Private financing
  • The role of donors
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