Stakeholders perception towards cost sharing in higher learning institution: a case study of Sokoine and Tumaini universities in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorBupilipili, Lydia Simeon
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-11T16:54:49Z
dc.date.available2025-01-11T16:54:49Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionDissertation
dc.description.abstractTanzania has for long time been experiencing problems that are related to the funding of higher education students. Cost - sharing in education was introduced in 1992 following a government’s decision for the public to contribute toward the running cost of social services. Since then, there have been different reactions from stakeholders about cost sharing in higher learning institutions. The general objective of this research was to investigate stakeholders perception towards cost sharing in higher learning institutions and how it affects higher education enrollment. The research specific objectives included to find loan criteria acceptance, advantages and challenges of students’ loan scheme. Other objectives included to examine the loan provision and repayment trend from 2004/05-2007/08 and collecting views on how loan provision can be improved. It was found out that most stakeholders were aware of cost sharing in higher education. They were also aware that cost sharing increased access to university and promoted expansion of private universities. Stakeholders support cost sharing because, it increases opportunity for more students to be enrolled and because higher education is expensive to be handled by government alone. On the other hand the study found that reasons for rejecting cost sharing in higher education are, poverty among disadvantaged people who are not able to meet cost sharing requirement. However, students loan scheme criteria accepted include, disadvantaged group/orphans, economic level as well as wealth/assert owned by parents. Conversely, means testing is disapproved for its subjectivity. The study also found that among the challenges facing loan provision process include, lack of correlation between institution time table and HESLB loans provision time, misplacement/loss of students record forms, loan repayment rate and unclear cost sharing policy implementation strategies. The study recommends for HESLB decentralization, exclusion of means testing during field practical and staff empowerment through managerial skills.
dc.description.sponsorshipPANTIL
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6492
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSokoine University of Agriculture
dc.subjectCost sharing-higher learning institution
dc.subjectSokoine university
dc.subjectTumaini university
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.titleStakeholders perception towards cost sharing in higher learning institution: a case study of Sokoine and Tumaini universities in Tanzania
dc.typeThesis

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