Higher Education in Ethiopia: Expansion, Quality Assurance and Institutional Autonomy

Autor/in	Akalu, Girmaw Abebe
Titel	Higher Education in Ethiopia: Expansion, Quality Assurance and Institutional Autonomy
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 68 (2014) 4, S.394-415 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/hequ.12036
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Educational Development; Economic Development; Poverty; Educational Improvement; Barriers; Ideology; Educational Quality; Institutional Autonomy; Educational Finance; Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Bildungsentwicklung; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Armut; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Ideologie; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Institutionelle Autonomie; Bildungsfonds; Äthiopien
Abstract	This article chronicles the key challenges facing Ethiopia as it embarks on an ambitious, ideologically-driven and aggressive expansion of its higher education system in an effort to address its national goals of economic growth and poverty reduction. It is argued that the urge for higher education expansion has placed undue pressures particularly on the state of quality enhancement and autonomy of universities. As government pressures for more expansion mounted, universities struggled with dwindling per student budgetary allocations, shortage of qualified staff, inadequate supply of much needed inputs and the erosion of their autonomy. It is suggested that while higher education expansion remains an important goal for Ethiopia for many years to come, a reasonable balance should be struck between the ideological aspects of expansion and the practical realities of limited resources, heightened concerns about the quality of student learning and the autonomy of universities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10