Finnish investment helps close the education gap in Africa
Finnish development financier Finnfund is investing 7 million US dollars in Maarifa Education Group , a private tertiary education company operating in Sub-Saharan Africa. Maarifa Education offers high quality programmes in labour market relevant studies of medicine, business, IT, law, and social-sciences, complementing public universities which can educate only a third of all applicants. Despite the doubling of tertiary education enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2000, enrolment in the region still averages at under 9% of the age cohort. “This is