Special issue: Private surge amid public dominance: dynamics in the private provision of higher education in Africa

Mabizela, Mahlubi; Levy, Daniel; Otieno, Wycliffe

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Title:	Special issue: Private surge amid public dominance: dynamics in the private provision of higher education in Africa
Editors:	Mabizela, Mahlubi Levy, Daniel Otieno, Wycliffe
Year:	2007
Periodical:	Journal of Higher Education in Africa (ISSN 0851-7762)
Volume:	5
Issue:	2-3
Pages:	220
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Kenya Nigeria South Africa Tanzania Uganda
Subjects:	higher education universities private education
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/jhigheducafri.5.issue-2-3
Abstract:	This special issue examines the growth of private higher education in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s, focusing on the private sector's interface with the public sector, local and global contexts and dynamics brought about by the expansion of private higher education, private higher education's dimensions and its effects on the existing provision of higher education, and new perspectives for higher education in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributions: Private surge amid public dominance in higher education: the African perspective (Mahlubi Mabizela); Analysis of the emergence and development of private universities in Nigeria (1999-2006) (Isaac N. Obasi); Private provision, national regulatory systems and quality assurance: a case study of transnational providers in South Africa (Prem Naidoo, Mala Singh and Lis Lange); The debate on quality and the private surge: a status review of private universities and colleges in Tanzania (Johnson M. Ishengoma); The growth of private universities in Kenya: implications for gender equity in higher education (Jane Onsongo); Credentials and mobility: an analysis of the profile of students studying at registered private higher education institutions in South Africa (Glenda Kruss); Grand endeavours and economic realities: managing system-wide structural changes to Ugandan higher education in the face of private expansion (Carlo Salerno and Jasmin Beverwijk); Private provision and its changing interface with public higher education: the case of Kenya (Wycliffe Otieno); A recent echo: African private higher education in an international perspective (Daniel Levy). [ASC Leiden abstract]