INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE POTENTIAL OF HELB LOANS IN EQUALIZING HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA - Softcover

Odebero, Stephen

 
9783838391489: INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE POTENTIAL OF HELB LOANS IN EQUALIZING HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3838391489 ISBN 13: 9783838391489
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Kenya, like many developing countries, has witnessed budgetary constraints forcing the Government to institute students' loans in financing university education for the needy, rather than grants. This book documents research based evidence which reveal that access to university education in Kenya is dominated by students from medium and high income families. Consequently, HELB loan financing for university education, though noble, it is regressive as a means of equalizing higher education opportunities. It also shows that there is inefficiency in loan recoveries from past recipients. Several recommendations are made including the need to broaden the means-testing tool currently used by the loans Board in disbursements. It also recommends the need to amend the Act under which HELB operates presently in order to give it proper legal mandate to prosecute loan defaulters. The book is useful to university professors and graduate students in policy and financing of education in developed and developing countries and to administrators and managers of higher education loans.

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Reseña del editor

Kenya, like many developing countries, has witnessed budgetary constraints forcing the Government to institute students' loans in financing university education for the needy, rather than grants. This book documents research based evidence which reveal that access to university education in Kenya is dominated by students from medium and high income families. Consequently, HELB loan financing for university education, though noble, it is regressive as a means of equalizing higher education opportunities. It also shows that there is inefficiency in loan recoveries from past recipients. Several recommendations are made including the need to broaden the means-testing tool currently used by the loans Board in disbursements. It also recommends the need to amend the Act under which HELB operates presently in order to give it proper legal mandate to prosecute loan defaulters. The book is useful to university professors and graduate students in policy and financing of education in developed and developing countries and to administrators and managers of higher education loans.

Biografía del autor

The author is a Senior Lecturer of Planning and Economics of Education at Masinde Muliro University. He is well known for his expertise in equity in financing education. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Kenya Journal of Education Planning, Economics and Management. He received PhD in Education Planning from Egerton University in Kenya.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3838391489
ISBN 13 
9783838391489
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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