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 [SSA], 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 rem... Show more
Authors: Darvas, Peter; Gao, Shang; Shen, Yijun; Bawany, Bilal
Published: Washington, District of Columbia, World Bank, 2017
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: xx, 96 p.
Access item: http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27617
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