Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa
Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand and the region continues to lag all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply ent...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English en_US |
| Published: |
Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27617 |
| id |
okr-10986-27617 |
|---|---|
| recordtype |
oai_dc |
| spelling |
okr-10986-276172021-04-23T14:04:45Z Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa Darvas, Peter Gao, Shang Shen, Yijun Bawany, Bilal EQUITY ECONOMIC GROWTH GROWTH IN TERTIARY ENROLLMENT ADMISSION POLICY TERTIARY EDUCATION SHORT-CYCLE PROGRAM SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD DIVERSIFICATION NON-UNIVERSITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIGHER EDUCATION Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand and the region continues to lag all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply entrenched patterns of inequitable access to higher education, and the perpetuation of what researchers refer to as “elite systems”. To date, access to tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa has unduly benefitted students drawn from the region’s wealthiest households, and overall enrollment remains disproportionately male, and metropolitan. These factors stifle the catalytic potential of higher education, corroding its potential for driving economic growth and sustaining poverty reduction. Instead, patterns of access to tertiary education have generally reinforced and reproduced social inequality, instead of eroding its pernicious social and economic effects. This report aims to inform an improved understanding of equity in tertiary enrollment in Sub-Saharan African countries, and to examine the extent to which inequity functions as a bottleneck inhibiting the ability of African universities to effectively drive improvements in overall quality of life and economic competitiveness. In our survey of the evidence, we also aim to identify which policies most effectively address the challenge of promoting equity of access in SSA tertiary education systems. In order to achieve these objectives, the report collects, generates and analyzes empirical evidence on patterns of equity, examines the underlying causes of inequity, and evaluates government policies for addressing inequity. 2017-07-18T15:08:44Z 2017-07-18T15:08:44Z 2017-10-25 Book 978-1-4648-1050-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27617 English en_US Directions in Development—Human Development; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Sub-Saharan Africa |
| repository_type |
Digital Repository |
| institution_category |
Foreign Institution |
| institution |
Digital Repositories |
| building |
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository |
| collection |
World Bank |
| language |
English en_US |
| topic |
EQUITY ECONOMIC GROWTH GROWTH IN TERTIARY ENROLLMENT ADMISSION POLICY TERTIARY EDUCATION SHORT-CYCLE PROGRAM SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD DIVERSIFICATION NON-UNIVERSITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIGHER EDUCATION |
| spellingShingle |
EQUITY ECONOMIC GROWTH GROWTH IN TERTIARY ENROLLMENT ADMISSION POLICY TERTIARY EDUCATION SHORT-CYCLE PROGRAM SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD DIVERSIFICATION NON-UNIVERSITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIGHER EDUCATION Darvas, Peter Gao, Shang Shen, Yijun Bawany, Bilal Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| geographic_facet |
Africa Sub-Saharan Africa |
| relation |
Directions in Development—Human Development; |
| description |
Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand and the region continues to lag all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply entrenched patterns of inequitable access to higher education, and the perpetuation of what researchers refer to as “elite systems”.
To date, access to tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa has unduly benefitted students drawn from the region’s wealthiest households, and overall enrollment remains disproportionately male, and metropolitan. These factors stifle the catalytic potential of higher education, corroding its potential for driving economic growth and sustaining poverty reduction. Instead, patterns of access to tertiary education have generally reinforced and reproduced social inequality, instead of eroding its pernicious social and economic effects.
This report aims to inform an improved understanding of equity in tertiary enrollment in Sub-Saharan African countries, and to examine the extent to which inequity functions as a bottleneck inhibiting the ability of African universities to effectively drive improvements in overall quality of life and economic competitiveness. In our survey of the evidence, we also aim to identify which policies most effectively address the challenge of promoting equity of access in SSA tertiary education systems. In order to achieve these objectives, the report collects, generates and analyzes empirical evidence on patterns of equity, examines the underlying causes of inequity, and evaluates government policies for addressing inequity. |
| format |
Book |
| author |
Darvas, Peter Gao, Shang Shen, Yijun Bawany, Bilal |
| author_facet |
Darvas, Peter Gao, Shang Shen, Yijun Bawany, Bilal |
| author_sort |
Darvas, Peter |
| title |
Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_short |
Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full |
Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_fullStr |
Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_sort |
sharing higher education's promise beyond the few in sub-saharan africa |
| publisher |
Washington, DC: World Bank |
| publishDate |
2017 |
| url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27617 |
| _version_ |
1764465584320282624 |