Why does so little foreign aid go to support universities?

Childs, Anna (2015). Why does so little foreign aid go to support universities? The Conversation, London.

URL: https://theconversation.com/why-does-so-little-for...

Abstract

Between 2002 and 2013, approximately US42.6 billion was given in foreign aid by the world’s richest countries to support higher education in developing countries. That may sound like a lot, but the total amount spent on foreign aid in that period was US 1.6 trillion – dwarfing higher education to just 2.7% of the total.

As the graph below shows, the spending in USm by the top donor countries has changed very little over ten years. But why have universities had such little support?

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