This nine-country study of higher education financing in Africa includes three East African states (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), five countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa), and an Indian Ocean island state (Mauritius).
There has been a resurgence of interest in training programmes for higher education leaders and management (HELM) at African universities in recent times.
Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall graduate output over the past decade.
Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies.
Driving Change tells a story that exemplifies a basic law of physics, known to all , the application of a relatively small lever can shift weight, create movement and initiate change far in excess of its own size.
What Changed Our Lives: An Expat Adventure is written based on the real experiences of Rudolf Hartong, his wife, and their five children during their travelling and moving around as expatriates.
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus.
This book took me back to the basics of enjoying life with people you love and who love you and to be a kid again the innocence expectations and surprises and LIFE THEN CAN BE A bowl of cherries and you can have the icing on top by using Mentoring as your enabler to assist in achieving this.
Reflections of South African Student Leaders 1994-2017 brings together the reflections of twelve former SRC leaders from across the landscape of South African universities.
From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa.
First published as The Years That Matter MostFrom best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt.
Drawing from his experience training both Olympic athletes and Fortune 500 executives, Peter Jensen explains how to apply world-class coaching practices to the everyday business realm and--most importantly--ignite for others the inner passion and resolve required to succeed.
In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of eknowledge for developmenti in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its academic content.
Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system.
Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University is set against the backdrop of the spread of neoliberal ideas and reforms since the 1980s.
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa.
The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on ,world-class, universities , inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia.
Este libro invita al lector a reflexionar sobre algunas preocupaciones presentes en la vida profesional y academica de la autora, que han circulado de manera formal e informal en escenarios ciudadanos, escolares o universitarios con los que interactua de manera habitual.
We are now in the speed of the speed, this may seem a vulgarity, but a little thought, what time it takes to send a response to the WhatsApp application?
El libro comparte retos y vivencias respecto a la cuestion curricular desde perspectivas pedagogicas que se materializan en realizaciones tangibles, procesos y urdimbres para favorecer entre estudiantes, profesores y directivos academicos, la cognicion y el aprendizaje significativo como transito hacia la genuina vivencia formativa.
This book includes a group of articles that include many aspects of material, moral and emotional life, and it was formulated in a graceful literary language that sheds light on rich experiences in various life paths, topics that keep pace with the times, and are compatible with the developments of change.
800x600 This new case study shows how an operationally complex global pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, India, responds to the challenges of high demand variability and other uncertainties.