Skip to content
Home/ Challenges of Education Financing and Planning in Africa: What Works and What Does Not Work
Challenges of Education Financing and Planning in Africa: What Works and What Does Not Work
Save Ask us
Publisher
Codesria
Published
Dec 29, 2007
ISBN-13
9782869782051

Challenges of Education Financing and Planning in Africa: What Works and What Does Not Work

No customer reviews yet ISBN 9782869782051 Codesria

This volume highlights the proceedings of the two policy dialogue conferences held by the Working Group on Finance and Education (WGFE) in 2004. Part I of the document discusses the endemic crisis that higher educationhas been beset with since the outset of the post colonial period in Africa. It highlights the critical state of higher education systems in Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal by scrutinizing the causes, manifestations and consequences of the crisis to posit useful recommendations and possible solutions. Part II is a comprehensive review of the challenges facing the financing and planning of all levels and types ofeducation - from kindergarten to graduate school - in selected African countries. The papers reveal the sources and mechanisms of funding education in Africa, drawing attention to the experiences of communities confronted with new funding sources. A new trend, which consists of designing decade long educational development plans, has emerged and is rapidly expanding in numerous African countries. This experience is examined and shared by the authors. This book has contributions in both French and English.

Product details

BrandCodesria
Pub dateDec 29, 2007
ISBN-102869782055
ISBN-139782869782051
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions11.69 × 0.33 × 8.27 in
Weight1 lb
Last updated 2026-07-21 08:13
$51.53 $55.44 7% off
You save $3.91 · list price $55.44
In stock — ships in 24 hours with free tracking
Delivery by Monday, October 26, 2026
Qty
Sign in to Add to Saved list
Free delivery on orders over $35.
15-day returns. Any reason.
Secure checkout. We never store card details.

Readers who bought this also bought

More from Finance
See all
School-Based Evaluation: A Dialogue for School Improvement
Nevo, David
$152.81
Monitoring the Standards of Education: Papers in Honor of John P. Keeves
Monitoring the standards of school achievement is a topic which has been subject to increasing attention of late. This book aims to add clarity and fuel to this ongoing debate by answering such questions as: Why should standards of education be monitored? Which are the major steps to be undertaken in setting and monitoring cognitive and affective achievement standards? Which indicators can be used and, how should they be measured?
$156.10
Government and Higher Education Relationships Across Three Continents: The Winds of Change
Available
$203.29
Market Approaches to Education: Vouchers and School Choice
The book contains a number of essays that address the recent debate on school choice and vouchers. In addition to papers that provide opinions on the role of government in education, the book offers a number of papers that analyze many of the issues employing advanced econometric techniques. Efforts have been made to balance arguments made by authors by including opposing views. The book will contain three major parts. Part 1, Theory and Practice of Choice in Education, offers a discussion of the economic rationale for government interference in schooling and opposing views on private school choice and vouchers, whether educational production is not conducive for the creation of for-profit organizations, and a simulation study to discern, among others, the effect of choice on educational opportunity. Part II - Are Private Schools Superior to Public Schools contains several studies which compare achievement in public and private (especially parochial) schools, and what implications such results have for market approaches. Part III - Empirical Studies of School Choice and Vouchers contains research from several countries (US, Europe, Japan) concerning the success and failure of school choice programs.
$212.06
Educative Accountability: Theory, Practice, Policy and Research in Educational Administration
MacPherson, Reynold J S
$157.20
Foundations of Educational Effectiveness
Scheerens, Jaap
$169.27