| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 509 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
International perspectives on education and society ; volume 21
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International perspectives on education and society ; v. 21.
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| Summary |
This volume of the International Perspectives on Education and Society series investigates the challenges and prospects for higher education in Africa, especially issues of development, expansion, internationalization, equity, and divergence. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Incalculable promise of the African continent: higher education rising to the occasion? / Charl C. Wolhuter and Alexander W. Wiseman -- An overview of African higher education and development / Christopher S. Collins -- Trends in internationalization of higher education and implications for research and innovation for development in African universities / Ibrahim Ogachi Oanda -- Cross-border higher education in Africa: collaboration and competition / Jason E. Lane and Kevin Kinser -- "Steering rather than rowing": internationalism, privatization, and university reform in Tanzania / Ross J. Benbow -- Power of global-local partnerships: an assessment of global, national and local stakeholders of religious, higher education in sub-Saharan Africa / Grace Karram -- In search of equity and access in higher education in Namibia: challenges and achievements / Kenneth Kamwi Matengu, Gilbert Likando, and Bennett Kangumu -- Charting higher education development in Ghana: growth, transformations, and challenges / Fancis Atuahene -- Language in higher education transformation: contrasts and similarities between two African universities / Gregory H. Kamwendo -- Knowledge production in the knowledge economy: higher education institutions and the application of innovations in ICT for capacity development in Africa / Chijioke J. Evoh, Christopher Byalusago Mugimu and Hopestone K. Chavula -- Challenges and experiences in doing university collaboration in North-South projects / Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite -- Towards African higher education regionalization and harmonization: functional, organizational and political approaches / Jane Knight -- European education policies and the uniformization of higher education in Europe: some 'lessons' from the Bologna process for education and teacher education in Africa / Konstantinos G. Karras -- Policy spaces and educational development in the Islamic Maghreb region: higher education in Tunisia / Landis G. Fryer and Travis D. Jules -- Rethinking agency in university development: the case of the association of African universities / Ane Turner Johnson -- Rethinking higher education curriculum in Nigeria to meet global challenges in the 21st century / Martha Nkechinyere Amadi and Perpetuna Ememe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Africa.
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Education, Higher. |
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Africa. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wiseman, Alexander W., 1968- editor, author.
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Wolhuter, C. C. (Charl C.), editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Development of higher education in Africa. 1st ed. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2013 9781781906989 (OCoLC)828884724 |
| ISBN |
9781781906996 (electronic book) |
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1781906998 (electronic book) |
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9781781906989 |
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178190698X |
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