Scholars in the Marketplace. The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 / Mahmood Mamdani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Makerere University.

Privatization in education--Uganda.

Privatization in education.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Uganda.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2007

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990's and was based on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a public good. Instead of pitting the public against the private, and the state...

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter One - The reform Process: The First Phase; Chapter Two - Winners and Losers; Chapter Three - Commercialisation; Chapter Four - Decentralisation; Conclusion - Higher Education and the Public University in an Independent Africa; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612901553

9781282901551

1282901559

9782869784192

2869784198

9782869783751

2869783752

9782869782921

2869782926

OCLC:

741350895