Financing public universities in eastern and southern Africa: implications for information services
Abstract
Public universities in eastern and southern Africa have for a long time depended largely on grants from national governments for most of their recurrent and capital budgets. Statutes of various universities also allow them to get external aid and donations mainly for capital developments, technical assistance and staff training. In the last decade, there has been pressure on public universities in the region to cut back on their budgets as a result of declining government grants occasioned largely by political and economic structural changes. Universities are responding by putting in place a wide range of programmes to generate their own income to augment the dwindling allocation from national governments. This paper discusses current developments within universities in eastern and southern Africa in an environment of rapid technological developments.
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Citation
Mutula, S.M. (2001), "Financing public universities in eastern and southern Africa: implications for information services", The Bottom Line, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 116-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880450110398681
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:MCB UP Ltd
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