Author: Association of African Universities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Revitalising Universities in Africa
Author: Association of African Universities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Revitalising Universities in Africa
Author: Association of African Universities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Universities in Africa
Author: William S. Saint
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This study explores what can be done to overcome the current crisis of quality, relevance and finance in African universities. It catalogues the accomplishments of African universities, identifies current problems, and signals likely solutions. It analyzes pertinent experience in seven key areas where changes are needed: university - state relations, financial diversification, management, governance, relevance, quality preservation, and managing the social demand for higher education. The report also suggests how a process of higher education reform can be initial, and outlines complementary roles for government, universities and donors in the process.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This study explores what can be done to overcome the current crisis of quality, relevance and finance in African universities. It catalogues the accomplishments of African universities, identifies current problems, and signals likely solutions. It analyzes pertinent experience in seven key areas where changes are needed: university - state relations, financial diversification, management, governance, relevance, quality preservation, and managing the social demand for higher education. The report also suggests how a process of higher education reform can be initial, and outlines complementary roles for government, universities and donors in the process.
Revitalizing Universities in Africa
Author: Association of African Universities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Research Universities in Africa
Author: Nico Cloete
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928331882
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this zeitgeist of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a different, collaborative approach to linking higher education to development was necessary. This led to the establishment of the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (Herana) to concentrate on research and advocacy about the possible role and contribution of universities to development in Africa. This book is the final publication to emerge from the Herana project. The project has also published more than 100 articles, chapters, reports, manuals and datasets, and many presentations have been delivered to share insights gained from the work done by Herana. Given its prolific dissemination, it seems reasonable to ask whether this fourth and final publication will offer the reader anything new. This book is certainly different from previous publications in several respects. First, it is the only book to include an analysis of eight African universities based on the full 15 years of empirical data collected by the project. Second, previous books and reports were published mid-project. This book has benefited from an extended gestation period allowing the authors and contributors to reflect on the project without the distractions associated with managing and participating in a large-scale project. For the first time, some of those who have been involved in Herana since its inception have had the opportunity to at least make an attempt to see part of the wood for the trees. Different does not necessarily mean new. An emphasis on the newness of the data and perspectives presented in this book is important because it shows that it is more than a historical record of a donor-funded project. Rather, each chapter in this book brings, to a lesser or greater extent, something new to our understanding of universities, research and development in Africa.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928331882
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this zeitgeist of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a different, collaborative approach to linking higher education to development was necessary. This led to the establishment of the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (Herana) to concentrate on research and advocacy about the possible role and contribution of universities to development in Africa. This book is the final publication to emerge from the Herana project. The project has also published more than 100 articles, chapters, reports, manuals and datasets, and many presentations have been delivered to share insights gained from the work done by Herana. Given its prolific dissemination, it seems reasonable to ask whether this fourth and final publication will offer the reader anything new. This book is certainly different from previous publications in several respects. First, it is the only book to include an analysis of eight African universities based on the full 15 years of empirical data collected by the project. Second, previous books and reports were published mid-project. This book has benefited from an extended gestation period allowing the authors and contributors to reflect on the project without the distractions associated with managing and participating in a large-scale project. For the first time, some of those who have been involved in Herana since its inception have had the opportunity to at least make an attempt to see part of the wood for the trees. Different does not necessarily mean new. An emphasis on the newness of the data and perspectives presented in this book is important because it shows that it is more than a historical record of a donor-funded project. Rather, each chapter in this book brings, to a lesser or greater extent, something new to our understanding of universities, research and development in Africa.
COREVIP '99
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789988589011
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789988589011
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Revitalizing Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Revitalising Continuing Engineering Education in Africa
Author: J. Antonio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Revitalising Financing of Higher Education in Kenya
Author: Okwach Abagi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Revitalising Higher Education for Africa's Future - Abstract
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These include indicators of the governance and management transformations that are taking place in the institutions, how the pressures for expansion and accommodation of entrepreneurial practices are impacting on the governance and management practices and implications on the academic culture of the institutions, processes of constituting various university governance organs such as councils, sena. [...] This approach has, in many instances, reduced the influence of collegial approaches and the power of the faculty even in determining the academic direction of the institutions. [...] The discourse on higher education governance in Africa in most of the 1990s, entailed a much more direct ideological and political attack on the institutional and professional autonomy of universities which often resulted in a semblance of autonomy on the part of the institutions (autonomy to generate and spend with less government oversight); with little regard to the quality of the academic proc. [...] Reading through the literature and findings emerging from the field, there is a feeling that in most African universities coming out or struggling to come out of the financial crisis of the 1980s, and 1990s, good governance and leadership has meant the capacity of the institutions to generate own revenue outside government provisions. [...] Student Governance Some of the case studies have focused on examining the existing frameworks that govern student academic and welfare conduct and student involvement - particularly, how this is changing and in what direction and the implications to the evolution of the institutions, especially in the context of increased setting up of private universities and privatisation of public ones.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These include indicators of the governance and management transformations that are taking place in the institutions, how the pressures for expansion and accommodation of entrepreneurial practices are impacting on the governance and management practices and implications on the academic culture of the institutions, processes of constituting various university governance organs such as councils, sena. [...] This approach has, in many instances, reduced the influence of collegial approaches and the power of the faculty even in determining the academic direction of the institutions. [...] The discourse on higher education governance in Africa in most of the 1990s, entailed a much more direct ideological and political attack on the institutional and professional autonomy of universities which often resulted in a semblance of autonomy on the part of the institutions (autonomy to generate and spend with less government oversight); with little regard to the quality of the academic proc. [...] Reading through the literature and findings emerging from the field, there is a feeling that in most African universities coming out or struggling to come out of the financial crisis of the 1980s, and 1990s, good governance and leadership has meant the capacity of the institutions to generate own revenue outside government provisions. [...] Student Governance Some of the case studies have focused on examining the existing frameworks that govern student academic and welfare conduct and student involvement - particularly, how this is changing and in what direction and the implications to the evolution of the institutions, especially in the context of increased setting up of private universities and privatisation of public ones.