When marketization encounters centralized governance: Private Higher education in Egypt

Ghada Barsoum

International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, vol. 76, issue C

Abstract: The growing presence of private higher education institutions, including international branch campuses (IBCs), can potentially lead to transformations in governance and evaluation modes in contexts of state-centric steering. This paper addresses these transformations in the context of Egypt. The paper shows a hybrid progression in the legal and discursive practices governing private institutions, and a shift towards more procedural autonomy specifically in relation to IBCs. The system, however, continues to rely on a centralized a priori evaluation mode and strict controls. This reflects the inherent tensions within systems of centralized governance and weak institutional autonomy to shift into a posteriori evaluation modes, despite the forces of marketization.

Keywords: Private Higher education; IBCs; State steering; Evaluation modes; Egypt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102215

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