Expanding Tertiary Education for Well-Paid Jobs: Competitiveness and Shared Prosperity in Kenya

By Andreas Blom, Crispus Kiamba, Himdat Bayousuf, et al.

Expanding Tertiary education with quality, relevance and equity is one of the most decisive challenges for Kenya s future, including the achievement of the ideals of the 2010 Constitution and, especially, its 2030 vision, which aims at transforming Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle income, globally competitive and prosperous country . That is because tertiary education can contribute in a critical manner to successfully overcome several of the country s challenges. This book provide analysis and policy recommendations to Government of Kenya, tertiary education leaders and the many stakeholders on managing the massive tertiary education expansion facing the country. This book, first, discusses the motivation for the analysis and its choice of three critical topics: quality and relevance; governance, and student financing. Secondly, it reviews findings on each area, and, third, it ends with a set of policy recommendations."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464808481
• ISBN13: 9781464808487
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"