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Title From peril to promise: repositioning higher education for the reconstruction of Africa's future
Full text http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=cshe&action=viewtitle&id=cshe_1013
Date 2016
Author(s) I, Oanda; E, Sall
Abstract What efforts and policy commitments need to be made, to ensure that higher education in Africa is central to realizing Africa's development imperatives? Both in Africa and among the development partner community, academics and policy makers recognize the importance of higher education for Africa's development. Public and private higher education institutions are expanding, boosting enrollments. In most countries, new buffer bodies have been created to provide governance oversight, guarantee greater institutional autonomy from undue political control, and strengthen the institutions, to allow them engage in national and continental development issues. Greater policy commitments from the African Union Commission (AUC) have rejuvenated regional higher education bodies working to set quality assurance frameworks, and reorganized commissions for science and technology that are mobilizing funding for research and innovation for higher education institutions. Are these developments leveraging higher education institutions to play new important roles in crafting Africa's future? What will it take for Africa's higher education to be pivotal in reconstructing Africa's future?
Subject(s) Academia, African Renaissance, Higher Education, Higher Education Institutions HEI s
Coverage Contributory Studies and Research Approaches
Language English
Publisher International Network for Higher Education in Africa
Type of publication Journal Article (Peer Reviewed)
Format pdf
Repository Cape Town - AHERO, University of Western Cape
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