Market model of financing higher education in sub-Saharan Africa: Examples from Kenya

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-332

  Oketch, Moses O ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of education; Education finance; Kenya; Marketization of education; University education

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442641752     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300024     Document Type: Article

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