4 - The Debate on Quality and the Private Surge: A Status Review of Private Universities and Colleges in Tanzania
Journal of Higher Education in Africa,
Vol. 5 No. 2-3 (2007): Journal of Higher Education in Africa
Abstract
While enrolments in private universities is still low in Tanzania, their number, however, is surging at an alarming rate raising critical questions about their aca- demic quality in terms of their course offerings and the qualifications of the aca- demic staff involved in teaching these programmes. Despite this surge in the sheer number of Tanzania private universities, public universities remain dominant in terms of enrolment. This paper (i) documents the hitherto-lacking critical infor- mation about private universities and university colleges in Tanzania, (ii) dis- cusses the implications of the surge and (iii) discusses the related issues of aca- demic quality.
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- Banya, K., 2001, ‘Sub Saharan Africa: The State of Public Higher Education and the Emergence of Private Sector Universities’, World Education News and Reviews, 14(6), 1-5, November/December.
- CIA World Fact Book 2006, retrieved 5 December 2006 from www.cia.gov/cia/publications/ factbook/index.html.
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Council on Higher Education (CHE), 2003, ‘The Re-Accreditation of Private Providers. A Report on the Quality of Provision at Private Higher Education Institutions’, Pretoria: CHE.
Harvey, L., & Green, D., 1993, ‘Defining Quality’, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 8(1), 9-34.
Higher Education Accreditation Council, 2005, Guide to Higher Education in Tanzania 2005, 3rd Edition, Dar es Salaam: HEAC.
Ishengoma, J. M., 2007, Constraints and Prospects of Academic Freedom in Private Universities and Colleges in Sub Saharan Africa and Implications for Human Development and Capability Improvement: The Case of Tanza- nia, paper presented at the 2007 Conference on Human Development and Capability Approaches to Development (HDCA), New York, 16-20 Sep- tember 2007.
Ishengoma, J. M., 2006, The Challenges of Academic Freedom in Private Uni- versities and University Colleges in Tanzania: Implications for Knowledge Production and Dissemination, a research proposal submitted to the Or- ganization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa [OSSREA] in September 2006.
Ishengoma, J. M., 2005, Academic Freedom in Private Universities in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania, paper presented at the Academic Freedom Conference: Problems in Arab and African Countries, 10-11 Sep- tember 2005, Alexandria, Egypt.
Kisembo, P., 2006, ‘Proliferation of Bogus Universities Decried’, The Guard- ian, p. 4, 13 December 2006.
Levy, D. C., 2004, The New Institutionalism: Mismatches with Private Higher Education’s Global Growth. Working Paper No. 3. PROPHE Working Pa- per Series, Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE), University of Albany, State University of New York, from http://
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Levy, D. C., (forthcoming). A Recent Echo: African Private Higher Education in International Perspectives.
Levy, D. C., 2006, ‘The Unanticipated Explosion: Private Higher Education’s Global Surge’, Comparative Educational Review 50(2), 217-240.
Mama, A., 2004, Towards Academic Freedom for Africa in the 21st Century, com- missioned paper prepared for CODESRIA and UNESCO.
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Otieno, W., (forthcoming), Private Provision and Its Changing Interface with Public Higher Education: The Case of Kenya.
Saut Facilities Inadequate, 2007, The Citizen, p.5, 1 May 2007.
Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU), 2006, Newsletter, 1 (3), 10-24. January–September.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 2006, Human Development Re- port. The State of Progress in Human Resource Development, NY: UNDP. United Republic of Tanzania (URT), 2006a, Basic Statistics on Higher Education, Science and Technology 2001/2002–2005/2006, Dar es Salaam: Minis- try of Higher Education, Science and Technology.
United Republic of Tanzania, 2006b, Speech of the Minister for Higher Educa- tion, Science, and Technology to the National Assembly.
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United Republic of Tanzania, 2002, Some Basic Statistics on Higher Learning Institutions in Tanzania 1997/98–2001/2002, Dar es Salaam: Ministry of Sci- ence, Technology and Higher Education.
United Republic of Tanzania, 1999, National Higher Education Policy, Dar es Salaam: Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
University of Dar es Salaam, 2007, Facts and Figures 2006/2007. Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam.
University of Dar es Salaam, 2006, Facts and Figures 2004/2005, Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam.
University of Dar es Salaam, 2004, Facts and Figures 2003/2004, Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam.
Varghese, N. V., 2004, Private Higher Education in Africa, Paris: UNESCO: In- ternational Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP).
Varsity Students ‘Cheat’ Loans Body, Gain Shs 80m, 2007, The Citizen, p.1, 16 January 2007.
World Bank, 2003, World Development Indicators, Washington, D.C: The World Bank. 4.i