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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458133003321

Autore

Mamdani Mahmood <1946->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013

©2007

ISBN

1-282-90155-9

9786612901553

2-86978-419-8

2-86978-375-2

2-86978-292-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

378.6761

Soggetti

Privatization in education - Uganda

Education, Higher - Economic aspects - Uganda

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...