CHALLENGES FACING HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS’ LOANS BOARD IN LOAN RECOVERY: THE CASE OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN TANZANIA

Authors

  • Margareth A Mapunda

Keywords:

Higher Education, Students’ Loans Board, Loans recovery challenges, Students’ Loans scheme in Tanzania

Abstract

The importance of Higher Education has been increasing since the beginning of the 21st century and it is believed that individuals’ access to higher education will enrich their lives and status, and improve national economy. This has forced many governments in the world to establish students’ loan schemes to support the needy and qualified individuals so as to widen their access to tertiary education. Despite the benefits of students’ loan scheme, low loan recovery has been found to be one of the challenges impeding these schemes. Thus, the main objective of the present study is to explore the challenges facing Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) in loan recovery to the selected three higher learning institutions in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The study employed a qualitative exploratory research design, drawing from twenty nine (29) in-depth interviews. Purposive sampling technique was used to draw five (5) members of the management team of HESLB, College of Business Education (CBE), Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), and Institute of Finance and Management (IFM). Similarly, twenty four (24) loan beneficiaries were drawn randomly from the respective organizations. The interviews were built around various themes including the challenges facing HESLB in loan recovery, the challenges facing human resource officers during the loan collection process, challenges facing loan beneficiaries in loan repayment, and suggested ways to reduce the identified challenges. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. The findings reveal several challenges and they were categorized under: HESLB, human resource officers, and loan beneficiaries. To improve the identified challenges one of the proposed suggestion was to mainstream loan repayment in the national agenda.

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2019-11-14

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Mapunda, M. A. (2019). CHALLENGES FACING HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS’ LOANS BOARD IN LOAN RECOVERY: THE CASE OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN TANZANIA. Business Education Journal, 5(2). Retrieved from https://bej.cbe.ac.tz/index.php/bej/article/view/176

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