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After framing the scope of the book and pointing to some of the complexities of defining development in Chap. 1, I now describe some of the main theories on how higher education is linked with development. I point to differences and similarities in a cross-national perspective and interpret how these variables account for high levels of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and lead to scepticism regarding the relationship between higher education and development. I also challenge the value of the formula that is popularly used to rank countries’ higher education systems in terms of (i) elitist, (ii) mass and (iii) universal access. Trow’s (1970) formula, which dates from the 1970s, seems unfair in the sense that, by simply classifying countries in the three categories, it fails to consider a nation’s position in the global economy, or therefore undervalues the merit of its efforts.
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Uetela, P. (2017). Higher Education and Development: Global Trends. In: Higher Education and Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31141-8_2
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