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Widening University Access and Participation in the Global South: Using the Zambian Context to Inform Other Developing Countries book cover

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Widening University Access and Participation in the Global South Using the Zambian Context to Inform Other Developing Countries

By Edward Mboyonga Copyright 2025
168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private universities, can transform students’ lives and contribute to human development in low-income countries in the Global South. Providing new insights into the contribution of the private higher education sector in Africa’s developmental agendas, the book... Read more

1.     University access and participation: Global realities and challenges

2.     University access and participation in Zambia: Local realities and challenges

3.     A capabilities conceptualisation of access to higher education in low-income countries

4.     Negotiating university access

5.     Beyond the university gate: Achieving epistemological access

6.     Advancing capabilities and human development through private universities: Opportunities and challenges

7.     Re-Thinking university access towards human development in developing countries

8.     Conclusion

Biography

Edward Mboyonga is a postdoctoral research fellow in the SARChI Chair in Higher Education and Human Development (HEHD) Research Programme, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of the Free State, South Africa.

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