Seeking Secondary Schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for sustainable financing

The purpose of this book is to explore how access to secondary schooling can be increased in sub-Saharan Africa. Many countries have embarked on ambitious plans to universalize access to lower secondary schooling and increase participation at upper secondary. This work analyzes the costs and financing issues that will arise and includes estimates of the financial implications of different patterns of growth at regional and country level. The kinds of reforms needed to generate sustainable strategies expansion are indicated. The argument is that expanded access is possible but only if the public resources available to the secondary sector are increased, reforms lead to greater efficiency and effectiveness, costs to poor households are reduced, and growth is managed in ways that do not degrade quality.