Book,
Privatisation and Private Higher Education in Kenya: Implications for Access, Equity, and Knowledge Production
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, (2008)
Abstract
Over the last decade or so, the privatization of public universities and the growth in the number of accredited private universities has picked up steadily in Kenya. The growth in the private university sector has been more in the number of institutions than in the volume of students; while in the public universities, privatization has resulted in increase of the number of private students, whose enrolments in some institutions and programs surpass the number of students on government sponsorship. This book delves into the implications and tensions that this development has occasioned in Kenya, as regards the responsiveness of private higher education to issues of broadening access, equity considerations and the traditional research function of universities.
