Higher education massification in Africa

Like China, India, and other countries where the demand for higher education is growing due to massive youth demographics, many countries in Africa are facing similar problems. Due to the lack of government funding for increased numbers of institutions, the growth has been in the size of institutions, resulting in the massification of universities, increasing faculty/student ratios, and declining quality. Two solutions might be to encourage more private education and to welcome greater diversity of types of institutions (including polytechnics and technical institutions). The issue in both cases is cost and quality.