“…That is to say, there is a mismatch between student enrollment and budgetary allocations. This is the case in several African countries including Tanzania (Ishengoma, 2013;World Bank, 2010). Studies show, for example, that from 1985 to 1989, 17% of the World Bank's worldwide education sector spending was on higher education, whereas from 1995 to 1999, the proportion allocated to the higher education subsector by this financing institution declined to just 7% (Teferra, 2014, as cited in Bloom, Canning, & Chan, 2006.…”