Kapinga, B: Women Access to Higher Education

Since the independence in 1961, Women access to higher education has become one of the country‘s agenda in Tanzania, various efforts have been made for the purpose of ensuring women participation in higher education. The policies that made to facilitate female‘s participation are not enough. This book, therefore, investigates women access to higher education in Tanzania. It explored factors influenced women‘s enrollment in higher education and further investigated the policies that have been made to influence women access to higher education . Findings revealed that, while the universities especially University of Dar es Salaam have showed their efforts to increase female‘s enrollment in higher education, more efforts are still to be done in order to increase women access to higher education in Tanzania. However, Tanzania government needs to formulate more policies which would really help more women in higher education.The analysis should be useful to Professionals in higher education, students , teachers, parents and anyone else who may be considering understanding on women access to higher education.