Widening University Access and Participation in the Global South - Using the Zambian Context to Inform Other Developing Countries

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private universities, can transform students' lives and contribute to human development in low-income countries in the global south.

List of contents

1. University access and participation: Global realities and challenges
2. University access and participation in Zambia: Local realities and challenges
3. A capabilities conceptualisation of access to higher education in low-income countries
4. Negotiating university access
5. Beyond the university gate: Achieving epistemological access
6. Advancing capabilities and human development through private universities: Opportunities and challenges
7. Re-Thinking university access towards human development in developing countries
8. Conclusion

About the author

Edward Mboyonga is a postdoctoral research fellow in the SARChI Chair in Higher Education and Human Development (HEHD) Research Programme, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Summary

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private universities, can transform students’ lives and contribute to human development in low-income countries in the global south.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Mboyonga, Edward (University of the Free State Mboyonga
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032693194
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269319-4
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Perspectives on Education in Africa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; EDUCATION / General, Medicine, Africa, EDUCATION / Comparative, Social Work, teacher training, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education, Medicine and Nursing, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher