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Title Implications of evolving economic Ideology and higher education access policy for Africa, 1960- 2010
Full text http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=cshe&action=viewtitle&id=cshe_996
Date 2015
Author(s) Omwami, Edith Mukudi
Abstract Modernization and national economic growth became the focus of global development efforts in the immediate post-World War II period. Education sector planning and human capital formation was therefore an integral component of the international development agenda. This paper offers a critical review of the implications of the evolving global economic environment and higher education access policies on education opportunities for Africa. The analysis captures both shifts in dominant economic ideology, and the attendant access policies in education. It reveals that global policy consistently compromises the goal of building a high skilled workforce in Africa. Overall, access to higher education remains limited for Africans, and the continent remains without a world-class research university. The mitigated-neoliberalism environment ushered in by the human rights-based approaches to development has redefined global economic development practice. The concurrent exercise of governance and fiscal devolution, in the formerly centralised national governments, holds potential for substantial further empowerment in redistribution of higher education services. However, the limits of free-market capitalism and the current austerity conditions do not augur well for the new higher education development mission.
Subject(s) Access to Higher Education, Higher Education Institutions HEI s, Reforms of Higher Education
Coverage Finance and Physical Resources
Language English
Type of publication Journal Article (Peer Reviewed)
Format Pdf
Repository Cape Town - AHERO, University of Western Cape
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