Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms
at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding
neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation
of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole
continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the
fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital
friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990s and was based
on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a
public good. Instead of pitting the public against the private, and
the state against the market, this book shifts the terms of the
debate toward a third alternative than explores different relations
between the two. The book distinguishes between privatisation and
commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform. It
argues that whereas privatisation (the entry of privately sponsored
students) is compatible with a public university where priorities
are publicly set, commercialisation (financial and administrative
autonomy for each faculty to design a market-responsive curriculum)
inevitably leads to a market determination of priorities in a
public university. The book warns against commercialisation of
public universities as the subversion of public institutions for
private purposes.
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