scholarly journals Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrício Vitorino Langa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
International Expert ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Baseline Study ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe

This publication is the result of a baseline study of the state of the higher education systems in the five Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP): Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. The project was undertaken by an African international expert in the field of higher education studies and was fully sponsored and supported by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). The report offers a historical overview of the development of higher education in PALOP from colonial times to the present. The main objective of this baseline study is to map the landscape and dynamics of change in the higher education systems of PALOP countries. It focuses on describing the latest developments of trends of expansion, financing, governance and policy reforms closely linked to the development of higher education systems in these countries. Furthermore, the study will facilitate an informed debate and the dissemination of knowledge on the role of higher education for development in Africa.

Challenges Facing African Universities: Selected Issues

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akilagpa Sawyerr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
University Education ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Higher Education Systems

Abstract:With notable exceptions, modern university education in Africa is a phenomenon of the last half century. Universities were established either immediately before or within a decade after political independence in most African countries. Since then, both the number of institutions and enrollment have expanded rapidly and continuously across the continent. The coverage of university education, nevertheless, remains inadequate for the needs of the knowledge society. With the relative decline of state support during the severe economic crisis of the 1980s, Africa's universities suffered substantial deterioration: overcrowding, infrastructure deficiencies, and inadequate access to international knowledge resources. These deficiencies led to problems of access, equity, quality, and relevance, and to an aging faculty. At the same time, higher education systems were complicated by the diversification of categories of student, types of institutions, and the kinds of knowledge demanded. In the resulting situation of institutional complexity and policy dynamism, Africa's universities were compelled to develop strategies for coping and innovation. The result has been a halt in the decline in many instances, and revival and growth in several others. Accompanying these positive results, however, have been new forms of social exclusion as well as a loss of focus on the public purpose of universities as institutions concentrate mainly on increasing institutional incomes and producing graduates for the labor market. To address these and other problems, it is necessary to insist on the irreducible responsibility of the state for the maintenance of the higher education system and the need for a proper focus on the public purposes of higher education. Systems-level policy frameworks need to be negotiated and established to guide the strategic choices that have to be made by all players in the education sector.

scholarly journals World Class at All Costs

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Mats Hyvönen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Funding Policies ◽  
World Class

AbstractThis chapter takes up the now infamous case of the so-called Macchariani Scandal in light of the Karolinska Institute’s tactics for maintaining and enhancing its position as a WCU. It pays special attention to research funding policies in general, and, in particular, the role of the chairman of the Institute’s Board of Trustees, the Liberal politician Lars Leijonborg, as an example of how the dream of becoming a world-class country in the increasingly fierce global competition can have far-reaching negative consequences for national higher education systems as well as for individuals.

Is There a Future for Higher Education Institutions in the Knowledge Society?

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Private Benefits ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Higher Education Systems

The paper considers the growing diversity of higher education systems and institutions by exploring three main trends of expansion, differentiation and globalisation together with linked features concerning new forms of governance and more responsive relationships with other social institutions. At the heart of this expansion and differentiation are a number of tensions concerning the role of modern higher education systems: to do with balancing autonomy and responsiveness, reproductive and transformative functions, public and private benefits, economic and broader socio-political agendas. The paper goes on to ask whether future knowledge societies will continue to need separate institutions of ‘higher’ education and, if the answer is yes, what form these will take.

Tourism Education During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 863-884
Author(s):  
Ina Keçi ◽  
Ermira Qosja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Tourism Education

The worldwide pandemic situation created by the COVID-19 disease confronted the education systems of all countries with the most unpredictable challenge ever, a pedagogical revolution that required the transition from traditional and conservative education of auditors to distance education formats. The new front was clear, in a few days the entire education community had to adapt to the new environment, developing and creating new plans to provide teaching through different electronic platforms and software. As the tourism sector is one of the main sources of sustainable development, the role of higher education systems in this sector is to prepare human resources able to proactively respond to all the challenges created during the pandemic circumstances and post-pandemic circumstances. This chapter based on semi-systematic literature review discusses distance education in tourism as an inevitable alternative to education due to the pandemic conditions in terms of providing an appropriate preparation of human resources in tourism to properly face the new reality.

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