Neither education nor impact: why are universities and higher education institutes springing up all over eastern DR Congo?

This article is part of the #PublicAuthority blog series, part of the ESRC-funded Centre for Public Authority and International Development. Institutes of higher education and universities are mushrooming across not only Goma, but all of DRC's North Kivu Province. Samuel Keith Muhindo Balume and Papy Muzuri Batumike ask why graduates of these new institutions are not achieving the success of their peers of the 1960s-1980s.