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Assessing institutional density and fiscal sustainability to guide intensive quality reform in Ethiopian higher education

This descriptive comparative study evaluates the appropriateness of Ethiopia’s policy shift toward halting public university expansion and pursuing institutional consolidation amid concerns about educational quality and fiscal sustainability. Employing a descriptive comparative research design, this study draws exclusively on secondary data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, national ministries, and peer-reviewed sources to benchmark Ethiopia’s public university density, defined as institutions per million inhabitants, against seven African peer countries, including Egypt, Ghana, Kenya,…