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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author AYALEW, Sewale Abate
Title Financing higher education in Ethiopia : analysis of cost-sharing policy and its implementation
Publication year 2013
Source/Footnote In: Higher education policy. - 26 (2013) 1, S. 109 - 126
Inventory number 34180
Keywords Ausland : Äthiopien : Hochschulwesen allgemein
Abstract Cost-sharing as a policy in Ethiopian higher education institutions (HEIs) has been adopted since 2003 to achieve a set of objectives such as supplementing revenue as an alternative non-governmental source, maintaining and enhancing access to higher education, addressing equity in terms of opportunity in higher education and making students ?customer-like?. This article tries to identify some of the basic challenges the government is facing in achieving the objectives of cost-sharing in general. These challenges are lack of policy awareness, limited (or lack of) immediate non-governmental revenue, difficulty in implementing the concept of students-as-customers, the huge amount of government subsidy, inefficient/weak collection capacity, high default rate, and there is no direct flow of money to HEIs from cost-sharing. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)