Title:
How place of birth shapes chances of going to university: evidence from 7 African countries
Author:
Rebecca Simson
Research Fellow in Economic History, University of Oxford
Published:
The Conversation, 9 January 2022
From the article:
As access to higher education determined which people would come to hold some of the most important positions in society, politicians cared a great deal about how higher education spread. Given this context, how did regional inequalities in university access evolve after independence?
While several recent papers have highlighted considerable social inequalities in access to higher education in African countries today, there’s little work that looks at how and why such inequalities have changed over time.