Financing African Higher Education Damtew Teferra Damtew Teferra is a doctoral candidate in higher education administration in the School of Education, Boston College. He is currently coordinating a project funded by Ford Foundation to produce a comprehensive sourcebook on African higher education.
Higher education is a costly business.
It requires mobilizing a wide array of personnel at all levels of training as well as maintaining a vast and complex infrastructure. Even affluent nations, let alone the impoverished countries of Africa and the Third World, find it increasingly difficult to maintain adequate levels of financial support for their higher education institutions. While reports on the dismal state of most African institutions abound, this article outlines a number of potential ways of expanding the financial resource base of these institutions. Promoting Private Institutions . Private institutions are slowly but steadily emerging in several African countries.