Higher Education in Francophone Africa : What Tools Can Be Used to Support Financially-Sustainable Policies?

• Tác giả: Pierre Antoine Gioan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 440.7 Romance languages French
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 307751
• Chủ đề: 1. ACADEMIC RANKING; 2. ACADEMIC YEAR; 3. ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION; 4. ACCOUNTING; 5. ACHIEVEMENT

Tóm tắt

 The higher education and research sector in the French-speaking countries of Africa has, for more than a decade, been in a state of severe crisis, stemming from an increasing disparity between the requirements vital to providing high quality education and the available resources. The goal of this article is to: i) highlight the factors which have lead to the development of this situation in most countries
  ii) identify the conditions for creating a framework to regulate the trends in the higher education and research systems and allow them to be more financially sustainable
  and iii) identify ways of increasing funding for this sector as well maintaining its level of quality. The Main tools to support financially-sustainable policies include: i) controlling student inflows into higher education in order to avoid an increase in the student population that will be difficult to manage
  ii) targeting student assistance more effectively towards the most disadvantaged and deserving students
  iii) limiting the duration of study at the higher education level in order to prevent the number of students from building up in the institutions
  iv) guiding students more effectively towards courses that offer better employment prospects
  v) trying to promote a higher education private sector through fiscal and non-fiscal incentives
  vi) reducing unit education costs
  and vii) mobilizing additional self-generated resources.