The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in
universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

Higher education systems worldwide are faced with an intractable tension between the
demands of quality, equity and funding (Unterhalter and Carpentier 2010). On the one hand …

Abstract In Egypt and Jordan, there is a substantial mismatch between the output of the
higher education system and the needs of the labor market. Both demand and supply-side …

Struggles with inequality have been prominent in the Middle East and North Africa in the
aftermath of the Arab Spring. This paper examines the extent and drivers of inequality of …

The rise of private tutoring globally has raised concerns over the hidden costs of “free”
education systems and how these costs contribute to the persistence of inequality. We …

Egyptian schools of engineering (government faculties, private faculties and private higher
engineering institutes) award degrees to 35000 graduates annually. There have been …

This work examines engineering education in Egypt provided by state (government funded)
universities. There have been concerns from all stakeholders about the graduates' …

This study provides a comprehensive global snapshot of wealth-based inequalities in higher
education attendance. We draw on data from 117 countries to describe cross-national …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the trends of how demand-side factors predict
the probabilities of enrollment in higher education in Cambodia between 2004 and 2014 …