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Chronicle of African Higher Education - May 2013
Quality Regimes in Africa: The Reality and the Aspirations
By Juma SHABANI
Since the middle of 2000, a number of initiatives have been launched in Africa to develop common frameworks for comparable and compatible qualifications in order to promote and further strengthen academic mobility. Quality and quality assurance play a crucial role in these processes. Read more...
INHEA Editorial Series - October 2012
Rejecting Tainted Recognitions—Honoring Academic Citadels
By Damtew Teferra
This is the third time that an editorial on the same issue appears on this forum. It concerns the highly controversial and dubious UNESCO-affiliated award which has outraged Nobel Prize winners, intellectuals, writers, journalists, scientists, civil society groups and governments.... Read more...
Africa focused blogs from The World View - Inside Higher Ed
African Higher Education Challenges: Economics and Research (December, 2012)
By Philip G. Altbach
Much of Africa is at the early stage of massification of higher education. Sub-Saharan Africa, with a few exceptions, enrolls under 10 percent of a rapidly growing age cohort. This means that ... Read more...
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IHE articles on Africa
Issue 70, Winter 2013
Higher Education for Development in Rwanda
by Rebecca Schendel and Jolly Mazimhaka and Chika Ezeanya
African Students in India: Patterns of Mobility
by Prabhakar J Lavakare and K. B. Powar
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Africa Initiatives
African Higher Education Harmonisation and Tuning Project (Tuning Africa)
One transformation initiative which links institutional, national, regional, continental and international endeavours is the African Higher Education Harmonization and Tuning Project (Tuning Africa), which is part of the Africa-EU strategic partnership. This initiative aims to enhance degree comparability, graduate mobility and employability.
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Africa Resources
Association for African Universities (AAU)
The Association of African Universities (AAU) has provided a platform for research, reflection, consultation, debates, co-operation and collaboration on issues pertaining to higher education.
Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA)
SARUA was established to assist in the revitalisation and development of the leadership and institutions of higher education in the southern African region, thus enabling the regional higher education sector to meaningfully respond to the developmental challenges facing the region.
The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA)
IUCEA Facilitates networking among universities in East Africa, and with universities outside the region; provides a forum for discussion on a wide range of academic and other matters relating to higher education in East Africa; an facilitates maintenance of internationally comparable education standards in East Africa so as to promote the region's competitiveness in higher education.
Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD)
The Southern African-Nordic Center is a partnership of higher education institutions from all the Nordic countries and southern Africa. Its primary aim is to promote multilateral research cooperation on matters of importance to the development of both regions.
University World News (UWN) - Africa Edition
University World News is the first high-quality truly international newspaper and website, dedicated to providing such coverage. It is offering a weekly emailed newspaper plus access to a dedicated news website – free of charge. One of the issues is Africa Edition, which provides news on African higher education.
Center for Higher Education Transformation (CHET)
The Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) is a non-governmental organisation that mobilises transdisciplinary skills for specific research and capacity development projects by tapping available expertise in the national and international higher education sector.
EDU-LINK
EDULINK represents a harmonised approach for the implementation of European Commission funded programmes in the ACP Group of States with a view to improving the effectiveness, management, visibility and hence the impact of ACP-EU co-operation in the field of higher education.
Higher Education for Development (HED)
HED supports the worldwide development goals of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), primarily by coordinating the engagement of the higher education community to address development challenges.
Higher Education South Africa (HESA)
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) is the voice of South Africa’s university leadership. We represent 23 Vice-Chancellors of public universities.
Commission for Higher Education (CHE)
The Commission wishes, through this Website, to present an overview of higher education in Kenya and to inform the public of the quality assurance mechanisms which have been put in place in the sector.
African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE)
The African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE) is an independent, non-profit making, non-governmental African network committed to the advancement of high quality research, capacity building and advocacy on internationalization of higher education with prime focus on Africa.