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Higher Education in Development

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O knihe

This book will interest readers learning about or developing strategies for improving higher education
systems and institutions in developing countries.
It provides an insight into sub-Saharan African higher education systems and sets out the ways that they are
developing and changing. It explores the dilemmas inherent in a context of scarce resources with increasing
and urgent demands for a more professionalized workforce and expert services. It examines the factors
inhibiting development such as HIV/AIDS, gender issues, historical conflicts, cultural attitudes inimical to
innovation, the challenges created by poor infrastructure, and the history of colonialism and authoritarianism
and their legacy of centralized control and lack of autonomy and democracy.
The book explores lessons from research into sub-Saharan African higher education that may be applied to other contexts. The authors have lived and
worked in sub-Saharan Africa and the book draws on the authors' personal experience of higher education in Zambia, Ethiopia, The Yemen and their
links in Mozambique and South Africa as well as extensive senior management experience and at the highest level within sub-Saharan higher
education systems. It uses actual examples and a reflective 'case study' approach to describe reforms, and from these, develops ideas as to how to
improve the effectiveness of higher education as a means to fight poverty.
The book explores lessons from research into sub-Saharan African higher education that may be
applied to other contexts. The authors have lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa and the book
draws on their personal experience of higher education in Zambia, Ethiopia, The Yemen and their
links in Mozambique and South Africa. The authors also use their extensive management experience
at the highest level within sub-Saharan higher education systems. The book includes actual examples
and a reflective 'case study' approach to describe reforms, and from these, develops ideas as to how to
improve the effectiveness of higher education as a means to fight poverty.