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Cost-sharing as a policy in Ethiopian higher education institutions (HEIs) has been adopted since 2003 to achieve a set of objectives such as supplementing revenue as an alternative non-governmental source, maintaining and enhancing access to higher education, addressing equity in terms of opportunity in higher education and making students ‘customer-like’. This article tries to identify some of the basic challenges the government is facing in achieving the objectives of cost-sharing in general. These challenges are lack of policy awareness, limited (or lack of) immediate non-governmental revenue, difficulty in implementing the concept of students-as-customers, the huge amount of government subsidy, inefficient/weak collection capacity, high default rate, and there is no direct flow of money to HEIs from cost-sharing.
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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/hep.2013.15.
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Ayalew, S. Financing Higher Education in Ethiopia: Analysis of Cost-Sharing Policy and its Implementation. High Educ Policy 26, 109–126 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/hep.2012.21
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