Universities in the developing countries face difficulties to meet the global demands. There is a need to document such challenges.
Higher education in developing nations continues to be plagued by access, equity, and affordability issues. Inequality in access to higher education is mostly determined by social and economic differences. Students from homes with higher education backgrounds are overrepresented while students from blue collar backgrounds are conspicuously underrepresented in higher education in the majority of countries.
The perception of the aim of education itself has changed as a direct result of the shift in higher education from elite to mass. If the goal of conventional higher education was to produce enlightened leaders for society, then people who graduated from colleges and universities needed to be able to look for and obtain respectable jobs to improve their means of subsistence. In other words, the capacity of graduates to find jobs that are relevant to their educational accomplishments in a competitive labour market came to be highlighted as a measure of the effectiveness of the higher education system.
One of the difficulties is the lack of adequate budget to provide globally competitive quality education in developing countries.
The main challenges faced by universities in developing countries are maintaining quality education, attraction of students to higher education, budget shortage, market related practical educational and new forms of teaching and learn
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