Making higher education work for Africa: Facts and figures

By Irene Friesenhahn. Sub-Saharan Africa is struggling to produce more and better trained graduates. Irene Friesenhahn explains.
For decades, donors and policymakers have focused on primary and secondary education as the key to development and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. But until recently they have been reducing funding for tertiary education. Only since the 1990s has higher education’s importance for socio-economic development come to the fore, becoming part of the political agenda in many African countries. More...