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| Varying Form of Title: | Dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005
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| Other authors / contributors: | Codesria.
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| ISBN: | 9782869784192
2869784198
1282901559
9781282901551
2869782012
9782869782013
9786612901553
6612901551
2869783752
9782869783751
2869782926
9782869782921
9782869782013
2869782012
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-289) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| 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 1990s 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 against the market, this book shifts the terms of the debate toward a third alternative than explores different relations between the two. The book distinguishes between privatisation and commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform. It argues that whereas privatisation (the entry of privately sponsored students) is compatible with a public university where priorities are publicly set, commercialisation (financial and administrative autonomy for each faculty to design a market-responsive curriculum) inevitably leads to a market determination of priorities in a public university. The book warns against commercialisation of public universities as the subversion of public institutions for private purposes.
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| Other form: | Print version: Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- Scholars in the marketplace. Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ©2007 9782869782013
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| Standard no.: | 9782869782013
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| Publisher's no.: | MWT11582755
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