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International Network for Higher Education in Africa
INHEA is an information clearinghouse for institutions and individuals engaged in research, development, and advocacy activities related to postsecondary education in Africa.
- Website: /cihe/inhea/
Africa and GATS
The Association of African Universities (AAU), in collaboration with the Council on Higher Education (CHE)/South Africa, and UNESCO (African Region Scientific Committee of the Forum on
Higher Education, Research and Knowledge; and Global Forum on International Quality Assurance, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualifications), has developed an initiative
for raising awareness among African higher education leaders and policy makers about the important issues raised by the inclusion of education in the negotiations under the World
Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services (WTO/GATS).
- Website: http://www.aau.org/wto-gats/
- PDF: Implications of WTO/GATS for Higher Education in Africa, Procedings of Accra Workshop on GATS 2004
African Virtual University
The African Virtual University (AVU) is an innovative educational organization established to serve the countries of Africa. The objective of the AVU is to build capacity and support economic development by leveraging the power of modern telecommunications technology to provide world-class quality education and training programs to students and professionals in Africa.
- Website: http://www.avu.org/
Conditions, Coalitions, and Influence: The World Bank and Higher Education in Africa. Joel Samoff and Bidemi Carrol. World Bank. 2004
This study explores World Bank policies on higher education for Africa and their consequences. It examines the changes in these policies during the 1999's and how these changes were reflected by changes in policy and priorities within African governments.
- Website: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/teia/Samoff%20&%20Carrol%20World%20Bank%20paper.pdf
Financing Higher Education in Africa: Makere, the quiet revolution. David Court. World Bank. 1999.
Makere University has moved from the brink of collapse ot the point where it can again aspire to become one of the preeminent intellectual and capicity building resources in Uganda and the wider region. It has more than
Doubled student enrollment, instigated major improvements in the physical and academic infrastructre and drastically reduced its traditional financial dependence upon the state.
- PDF: Financing Higher Education in Africa
Center for Higher Education Transformation (CHET)
The Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) mobilises trans-disciplinary skills for specific projects by tapping available expertise in the national and international higher
education sector. A non-hierarchical, flexible management style, modern information technology, and a heavy reliance on consultants and steering committees affords CHET the unique
capacity to respond to higher education needs with only a limited number of full time staff. The site is a source of papers and publications on issues in higher education with
a particular emphasis on South Africa.
- Website: http://www.chet.org.za/about.html
Cooperative African Newspapers Project
The Cooperative African Newspapers Project is an initiative to enhance the utilization of newspapers as a source of information about Africa. The project explores issues related to the preservation of this inherently ephemeral and fragile form of publication and access to contents through both traditional and new technologies.
The core of the Cooperative African Newspapers Project is the African Newspapers Union List (AFRINUL), a centralized electronic database of holdings information for newspapers (all formats and all languages) published in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Website: http://www.crl.edu/grn/afrinul/index.asp
 Kenya
Commission for Higher Education
Government authority with oversight responsibility for higher education.
- Website: http://www.che.or.ke/csword.html
South Africa
Higher Education South Africa (HESA)
HESA came into being as the result of a merger between the
South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association (SAUVCA)
and the Committee of Technikon Principals (CTP).
SAUVCA was established as a statutory body for the 21 public
universities in South Africa by the Universities Act (Act
61 of 1955). As a statutory body, it made recommendations
to the Minister and Director-General of Education on matters
referred to it or alternatively on any other issues, which
it deemed important for universities. Publications and reports are available for download.
- Website: http://www.sauvca.org.za/index.htm
The Importance of Internationalization for Higher
Education
Martin Hall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town.
September 2004.
A paper for the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) considering the benefits and challenges of Internationalization.
- Word document: Internationalization
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