The Accessibility and Affordability of Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Competency-Based Entrepreneurship Education: Analysis of the ‘Disruptive Innovation’ Theory in African Higher Education Institutions

“…Evidence reveal that African HEIs are under immense pressures from all sides showing the necessity for strategic change (Cloete et al, 2015). It also indicates that HEIs are affected by daunting challenges like dwindling financial support by government due to budgetary concerns, affordability of tuition, while the stakeholders demand more efficient, innovative, and productive in terms of learning and retention of students (Irene & Hussain, 2021). In spite of Government and policy makers view of technology as a vehicle to transform higher education at the outset of the technology boom (Robinson, 2016), findings show that lack of adequate technological infrastructure has not enabled the transformation in African HEIs.…”

“…"Disruptive innovation", as already established in the literature, transcends software and technological programs, but includes models and approaches and this is yet to be implement (Robinson et al, 2016). Despite the importance of disruptive innovation in HEIs for upsetting the status quo, enable the students' centred learning, the engineering of new ways of thinking and the provision of the opportunities needed for higher education to survive and thrive Africa still lags considerably behind (Irene, 2021).…”