ERIC Number: EJ1013402
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Mar
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0952-8733
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Financing Higher Education in Ethiopia: Analysis of Cost-Sharing Policy and its Implementation
Ayalew, Sewale Abate
Higher Education Policy, v26 n1 p109-126 Mar 2013
Cost-sharing as a policy in Ethiopian higher education institutions (HEIs) has been adopted since 2003 to achieve a set of objectives such as supplementing revenue as an alternative non-governmental source, maintaining and enhancing access to higher education, addressing equity in terms of opportunity in higher education and making students "customer-like". This article tries to identify some of the basic challenges the government is facing in achieving the objectives of cost-sharing in general. These challenges are lack of policy awareness, limited (or lack of) immediate non-governmental revenue, difficulty in implementing the concept of students-as-customers, the huge amount of government subsidy, inefficient/weak collection capacity, high default rate, and there is no direct flow of money to HEIs from cost-sharing.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Performance Factors, Barriers, Finance Reform, Financial Policy, Shared Resources and Services, Cost Effectiveness, Policy Analysis, Organizational Objectives
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ethiopia
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