Universities and economic development in Africa: pact, academic core and coordination
"Universities and economic development in Africa: pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Universities and economic development in Africa: pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a development model and the role of higher education in development, at both national and institutional levels. There is, however, an increasing awareness, particularly at government level, of the importance of universities in the global context of the knowledge economy. 2. Research production at the eight African universities is not strong enough to enable them to build on their traditional undergraduate teaching roles and make a sustained contribution to development via new knowledge production. A number of universities have manageable student-staff ratios and adequately qualified staff, but inadequate funds for staff to engage in research. In addition, the incentive regimes do not support knowledge production. 3. In none of the countries in the sample is there a coordinated effort between government, external stakeholders and the university to systematically strengthen the contribution that the university can make to development. While at each of the universities there are exemplary development projects that connect strongly to external stakeholders and strengthen the academic core, the challenge is how to increase the number of these projects. The project on which this report is based forms part of a larger study on Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa, undertaken by the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA). HERANA is coordinated by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa"--Cover |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-70) |
| Beschreibung: | XXV, 82 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781920355807 1920355804 |
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Contents
Tables, figures and boxes
v
About this report
vii
A note about the data
timeframe
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
The project group
xi
Acronyms and abbreviations
xiii
Executive summary
xv
CHAPTER
1:
Introduction
1
1.1
Contextualising the project: The relationship between higher education and
development
1
1.1.1
International trends
1
1.1.2
The African context
2
1.1.3
The focus of prior research
5
1.2
Project focus and methodology
7
1.3
Analytical starting points for the study
9
1.3.1
What the project is not doing
11
CHAPTER
2:
Universities and economic development: Evidence of a pact?
13
2.1
The role of knowledge and universities in development
14
2.1.1
A role for knowledge and universities in national and
institutional policies and plans
14
2.1.2
Notions about the role of knowledge and universities
17
CHAPTER
3:
The academic core of eight African universities
23
3.1
Methodology
24
3.2
The academic core data
26
3.3
The strength of and changes in the academic core
29
3.4
Disjunctures between capacity and productivity
31
IV
UNIVERSITIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: PACT, ACADEMIC CORE AND COORDINATION
CHAPTER
4:
Coordination and connectedness
37
4.1
Coordination and implementation of knowledge policies
38
4.1.1
National coordination
38
4.1.2
Implementation
42
4.2
University connectedness to external stakeholders
46
4.2.1
Industry and community
46
4.2.2
Foreign donors
48
4.3
The connectedness of development activities to the academic core
52
4.3.1
Methodology
52
4.3.2
The project data and analysis
53
4.3.3
Discussion
57
CHAPTER
5:
Conclusions and some implications
59
5.1
Pact needed on 'engine for development' role for universities
60
5.2
Strengthening the academic core
-
incentives are key
61
5.3
Coordination and connectedness to development
64
List of sources
68
Appendix A: A higher education and development profile of the countries
71
Appendix B: List of interviewees
75
Appendix C: Indicators of pact, coordination and implementation
79
Appendix D: Problems in collecting academic core data
81
Appendix E: Academic core indicators and ratings
82 |
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