Breaking Even or Breaking Through: Reaching Financial Sustainability While Providing High Quality Standards in Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa
This new report highlights the need to increase funding to meet the demands for more and better education opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The global economic crisis and the Arab Spring have raised additional challenges for most countries in the region. Young people in MENA are demanding more social and economic inclusion. Higher enrollment rates have not translated into sufficient economic gains, as unemployment rates among university graduates remains stubbornly high. The report prepared by the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD), in partnership with the Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) studies the dynamics of financing higher education systems in the MENA region, to provide models for funding the needed expansion, while preserving quality and ensuring equity of access. It stresses the need to diversify sources of funding and improve the efficiency in the use of current funds.
Chapter 1 Higher Education, productivity, and labor market insertion: are MENA countries getting results?
Chapter 2 Benchmarking the financial sustainability of Higher Education in MENA
Chapter 3 How to use current funding more effectively: linking Higher Education policies and priorities with allocation mechanisms and tools
Chapter 4 Cost-sharing in tertiary education: why, when, and how?
Chapter 5 The role of private provision in ensuring financial sustainability, increasing access, and improving relevance and quality of Higher Education
Chapter 6 Diversifying Higher Education revenue through philanthropy and endowments: implications for the MENA region
This new report highlights the need to increase funding to meet the demands for more and better education opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The global economic crisis and the Arab Spring have raised additional challenges for most countries in the region. Young people in MENA are demanding more social and economic inclusion. Higher enrollment rates have not translated into sufficient economic gains, as unemployment rates among university graduates remains stubbornly high. The report prepared by the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD), in partnership with the Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) studies the dynamics of financing higher education systems in the MENA region, to provide models for funding the needed expansion, while preserving quality and ensuring equity of access. It stresses the need to diversify sources of funding and improve the efficiency in the use of current funds.
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