Higher education marketisation and its discontents: The case of quality in Kenya

This study addresses the implications of higher education marketisation for quality in Kenya. It focuses on full fee-paying programmes, the de facto market source of revenue for Kenya's public universities. The study argues that Kenya's public universities were precipitately subjected to d...

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Published in:Higher education 2008-10, Vol.56 (4), p.457-471
Main Author: Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ausland
Capitation
Case studies
College instruction
College students
Colleges and universities
Costs (Law)
Data Analysis
Economic development
Education
Educational Finance
Educational Quality
Fees & charges
Fees, charges, etc
Foreign Countries
Funding
Higher Education
Hochschule
Hochschulsystem
Human resources
Humanities
Income
Institutional Characteristics
Kenia
Kenya
Lecture halls
Lectures
Lehre
Market shares
Marketing
Markets
Public Colleges
Quality
Research methodology
Revenue
Self determination
Staat
Strategic planning
Student
Student Recruitment
Students
Studiengebühren
Studies
Studium
Teaching
Trends
Tutorials
Universities
Wirtschaft
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Summary:This study addresses the implications of higher education marketisation for quality in Kenya. It focuses on full fee-paying programmes, the de facto market source of revenue for Kenya's public universities. The study argues that Kenya's public universities were precipitately subjected to diminished public capitation, and so was their plunging into marketisation. These institutions started enrolling full fee-paying students at a time when they were strained in terms of institutional capacity. There were not enough physical facilities, and most of those available were suffering decay following many years of neglect. They did not have enough teaching staff, a problem, which the marketisation agenda has made worse. The desire to claim a bigger share in the student market has seen the introduction of many new courses in advance of capacity to offer them. The study concludes that by seeking economic self-determination through full fee-paying programmes, in advance of a well-developed institutional capacity, the subsequent pressure seems to have made the quality situation worse. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
ISSN:0018-1560
1573-174X
DOI:10.1007/s10734-007-9104-2