Higher education marketisation and its discontents: the case of quality in Kenya |
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| Authors: | Gerald Wangenge-Ouma |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, 7535, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | This study addresses the implications of higher education marketisation for quality in Kenya. It focuses on full fee-paying
programmes, the de facto market source of revenue for Kenya’s public universities. The study argues that Kenya’s public universities
were precipitately subjected to diminished public capitation, and so was their plunging into marketisation. These institutions
started enrolling full fee-paying students at a time when they were strained in terms of institutional capacity. There were
not enough physical facilities, and most of those available were suffering decay following many years of neglect. They did
not have enough teaching staff, a problem, which the marketisation agenda has made worse. The desire to claim a bigger share
in the student market has seen the introduction of many new courses in advance of capacity to offer them. The study concludes
that by seeking economic self-determination through full fee-paying programmes, in advance of a well-developed institutional
capacity, the subsequent pressure seems to have made the quality situation worse. |
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| Keywords: | Full fee-paying programmes Higher education Institutional capacity Kenya Marketisation Public universities Quality |
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