文档介绍：Cost Sharing and Participation in Higher Education in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania
By
Dr. Johnson M. Ishengoma
St. Augustine University of Tanzania
. Box 307
Mwanza, Tanzania
EAST AFRICA
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Paper presented at the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge
Paris, December 1-3, 2004
Cost Sharing and Participation in Higher Education in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania
Introduction and Context of the Problem
Introduction
In the early 1990’s Tanzania reintroduced a policy of higher educational cost sharing aimed at slowly shifting some of the costs of public higher education, which in recent years had been exclusively borne by the Government, towards the beneficiaries of higher education, . students and their parents as well as non-governmental parties and other stakeholders. The Government’s principal objectives for reintroducing cost sharing in higher education were to: expand access/participation in higher education; make the beneficiaries of higher education contribute to its costs; recover the costs of food and modations; establish a legally protected students’ loan scheme; and make higher education system more responsive to the labour market needs.
This paper highlights on the findings of the doctoral dissertation research study on: “Cost Sharing and Participation in Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania,” conducted at the Tanzania’s major public university-the University of Dar es Salaam-from January to May 2003. The paper mainly focuses on the Government’s principal objective of expanding access/participation to higher education through cost sharing by using the proxy indicators of: admission and enrolment rates; enrolment of privately sponsored students at the University of Dar es Salaam; total enrolments in private universities and colleges; students’ socio-economic statuses and religious affiliations