TY  - JOUR
TI  - Higher Education Finance as a Public Good in Kenya
KW  - Kenya
KW  -  higher education finance
KW  -  public good
KW  -  human
capital
KW  -  equity
KW  -  student loans
SP  - 67
UR  - https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2726
AV  - public
JF  - Journal of Higher Education in Africa
EP  - 87
SN  - 0851-7762
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery10169823
VL  - 20
N2  - This article discusses the transformation of the higher education financing model and how this relates to the concept of higher education as a public good in the context of Kenya. Following independence in 1963, the new Kenya government ? like most countries in sub-Saharan Africa that attained independence in this period ? considered the establishment of a university to be one of the symbols of a republic and of national advancement. The government valued the public role of university education during this early phase of Kenya as a sovereign nation, even when access remained highly restricted. But, equally, the private benefits of being a university graduate were evident to the Kenyan citizenry. For two decades, Kenya had only one public university ? the University of Nairobi ? but after 1984 the state rapidly expanded higher education, partly in response to demand. Several universities have since been established, both public and private. Concurrently, the government has pursued a cost-sharing financing model to support this rapid expansion, which is contrary to the notion of higher education as a public good to be provided free of charge. This article examines this transformation of the financing model together with higher education as a publi good and concludes that each has influenced the other in Kenya?s context.
A1  - Oketch, Moses
Y1  - 2022/11/28/
PB  - CODESRIA - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
IS  - 2
ER  -