Issues on Financing Higher Education in Tanzania

2020 ◽  
pp. 605-618
Author(s):  
Sotco Claudius Komba
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Funding Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Financing Higher Education

Education is a key to the development of any nation. Higher Education, in particular, is expected to produce graduates with knowledge and skills required for solving open and closed ended socioeconomic problems with a view of improving livelihoods. In order to achieve this end, it is mandatory for national governments to invest heavily in education and ensure equity and equality in accessing education opportunities. However, a critical examination of trends in financing higher education in Tanzania has revealed that higher education sector is currently being underfunded by the government. This trend does not only affect the issues of accessibility to and equity and equality in higher education, but also impinges on the provision of quality higher education. Thus, this chapter examines the trends and proposes a way forward for sustainable higher education funding policies.

Issues on Financing Higher Education in Tanzania

2017 ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotco Claudius Komba
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Funding Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Financing Higher Education

Education is a key to the development of any nation. Higher Education, in particular, is expected to produce graduates with knowledge and skills required for solving open and closed ended socioeconomic problems with a view of improving livelihoods. In order to achieve this end, it is mandatory for national governments to invest heavily in education and ensure equity and equality in accessing education opportunities. However, a critical examination of trends in financing higher education in Tanzania has revealed that higher education sector is currently being underfunded by the government. This trend does not only affect the issues of accessibility to and equity and equality in higher education, but also impinges on the provision of quality higher education. Thus, this chapter examines the trends and proposes a way forward for sustainable higher education funding policies.

What Are The Alternatives To Student Loans In Higher Education Funding?

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Stokes ◽  
Sarah Wright
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Student Loan ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
The Government ◽  
Market Instability ◽  
The Cost

In a period of student loan scandals and U.S. financial market instability impacting on the cost and availability of student loans, this paper looks at alternative models of higher education funding. In this context, it also considers the level of financial support that the government should provide to higher education.

scholarly journals The mechanism of higher education funding in Ukraine: nationwide and local perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-236
Author(s):  
Iryna Degtyarova ◽  
Olha Hryhorash ◽  
Victor Chentsov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Current System ◽  
The State ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
State Planning ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Local Perspective ◽  
The Government

Despite positive transformations in higher education in Ukraine since 2014 when a new Law was introduced, the system of public funding still remains a highly centralized and strongly budgetary dependent based on the state planning methods, which in the situation of lack of resources becomes more imbalanced and inefficient.The current system of allocation of the “state order for training the specialists with higher education” does not ensure an equal and fair competition among top 10 universities and the rest, especially regional, and the system cannot guarantee state-funded places to all applicants with high results of the External Independent Testing exams. At the same time, only a small share of graduates work on the specialty they acquired. The situation on the labor market does not encourage graduates to be employed in public institutions, which is harmful for the public sector of economy, especially in the regions. It proves that the system of distribution and allocation of government funding between higher education institutions in Ukraine needs urgent reforming.The objective is to analyze the current system of higher education funding in Ukraine in its national dimension and local perspective, and to develop proposals for its improvement, considering the selected good practices and using the following methods: literature analysis, method of retrospective analysis to research budgetary expenditures, determining the Net Present Value for calculating the government cost. Finally, a feasible proposal to reform the mechanism of public higher education funding was developed.

scholarly journals Financing higher education in Ukraine in the 21st century: challenges and prospects for overcoming them

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Maryna BILINETS ◽  
◽  
Andrii BURIACHENKO ◽  
Tetiana PAIENTKO ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Massification Of Higher Education ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Institutional Efficiency ◽  
Financing Higher Education

The development of higher education is characterized by new priorities, which necessitates the adjustment of higher education funding mechanisms in response to new challenges. The purpose of this article is to identify these key challenges in Ukraine and justify the possibilities to face them. The analysis of funding of higher education was conducted based on macroeconomic indicators for 2005 to 2020. It is also reviewed that financing of higher education in Ukraine is characterized by decentralization and diversification, which are characterized by an increase in the share of local budgets in the structure of higher education funding in Ukraine and the use of extra-budgetary sources of funding, in the form of tuition fees. The analysis has revealed the following key challenges of financing higher education: massification of higher education, which is characterized by the triad of "high availability - low price - low quality"; change in approaches to educational activities and decrease in the number of students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; inefficient model of financing higher education, which results in producing specialists with higher education that do not meet the needs and demands of the labor market. Overcoming the identified challenges can be achieved through reforming higher education models by aligning the structure, scope and quality of training with the needs of the economy and labour market, and its financing, through changing the cost-based approach to financing by results. This, in turn, would help align budget funding with institutional efficiency and curriculum effectiveness, and reduce the number of unclaimed specialists with higher education.

Opening the GATE to Improving College Students' Human and Psychological Capital through Higher Education Funding

2017 ◽  
pp. 290-318
Author(s):  
Charmaine Bissessar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
The Government ◽  
Financial Burdens

Higher education has a positive effect on students' and society's human and psychological capital. However, higher education funding is an issue for both students and Government. Qualitative study, using interviews, presents the views of 81 students at a technical vocational tertiary educational institution in Trinidad on the Government Assistance for Tertiary Education. Demographic information indicates that 47 students belonged to nuclear families, 62 students completed the Caribbean Secondary Schools Examination Council (CSEC), and 31 were first generation tertiary level students. Most participants indicated that their mothers were employed in the service industry and most participants indicated “none” for their fathers' occupations. Findings from the data, after coding, were: 1) improvement of human capital- relief from financial burdens, national service, continuation of GATE; 2) betterment of psychological capital- hope/self-improvement, career, and optimism. Recommendations made are for a more expansive study with students currently in the program as well as those who have benefitted from GATE.

scholarly journals Higher Education Funding Reforms in England: The Distributional Effects and the Shifting Balance of Costs

2008 ◽  
Vol 118 (526) ◽  
pp. F100-F125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Dearden ◽  
Emla Fitzsimons ◽  
Alissa Goodman ◽  
Greg Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Distributional Effects ◽  
Shifting Balance

scholarly journals Higher Education funding policy: who wins and who loses?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Dearden ◽  
Emla Fitzsimons ◽  
Alissa Goodman ◽  
Greg Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Funding Policy
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