The International Connections of Religious Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 487-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Karram
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
The Past ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Religious Higher Education

Over the past decade, the largest growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s private higher education has been among institutions with religious affiliations. This article examines the rise of private, religious higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa with international affiliations. Using an analysis of multiple stakeholders from the region and international community, the rationales and implications of religion higher education Africa are considered. Accreditation, quality assurance, funding, and development assistance are explored as key issues within African higher education. This article concludes with a discussion of the global divide between secular and religious ideologies and calls for more research into the impacts of religious higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

scholarly journals Unusual in Growth and Composition: Ethiopian Private Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 19-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wondwosen Tamrat ◽  
Daniel Levy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Limited Role ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sub Saharan

Ethiopia’s private higher education (PHE) sector is the largest or second largest in sub-Saharan Africa, however a mix of enabling and restrictive policies have let PHE play a limited role in key respects. This article surveys the current landscape and asks important questions regarding the future of PHE.

scholarly journals Massification in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: Causes, Consequences and Responses

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Goolam Mohamedbhai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
World Region ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
New Institutions

Most public higher education institutions in Africa, in response to historical conditions, have enrolled students in excess of their capacity, resulting in massification and negative consequences on educational quality. Increased enrolment has addressed issues of equity; but the equally important issue of ensuring equity in success for the enrolled students has received limited attention. Apparently graduation rates in higher education in Africa remain fairly low. Higher education institutions have taken several corrective measures to address the consequences of massification. Governments have also created new institutions and put quality assurance systems in place. There have also been continental responses. Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest tertiary enrolment of any world region, a handicap in its development. It must also meet the demands of its rapidly increasing secondary school graduates. There is a compelling need to further increase tertiary enrolment, a situation that challenges both institutions and countries. The growth in private higher education, if regulated and quality-controlled, could relieve this pressure.  Pour des raisons historiques, la majorité des établissements d’enseignement supérieur d’Afrique admet plus d’étudiants qu’elle ne peut en accueillir. Ceci conduit à la massification de l’enseignement supérieur et a des conséquences négatives sur sa qualité. L’augmentation de la participation a permis de répondre à des problèmes d’équité, mais la tout aussi importante question de l’équité dans la réussite des étudiants admis a reçu une attention limitée. Le taux de réussite dans l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique reste faible. Les établissements d’enseignement supérieur ont mis en place plusieurs mesures visant à corriger les conséquences néfastes de la massification. Les gouvernements ont aussi créé de nouvelles institutions et mis en place des systèmes d’assurance qualité. Des réponses ont par ailleurs été proposées à l’échelle du continent. Cependant, l’Afrique sub-saharienne a le plus faible taux d’inscription dans l’enseignement supérieur du monde, un handicap pour son développement. Elle doit aussi répondre aux demandes d’une population de diplômés du secondaire qui augmente rapidement. Il est impossible de nier la nécessité d’augmenter les admissions dans l’enseignement supérieur, une situation qui pose des problèmes aussi bien aux établissements qu’aux nations. La croissance des établissements privés pourrait permettre de relâcher la pression, s’ils sont correctement régulés et contrôlés en termes de qualité.

scholarly journals Suboptimal Utilisation of Resources in Sub-Saharan African Higher Education Institutions: the Case of Teaching Space at Makerere University

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
J Ssempebwa ◽  
SO Owolabi ◽  
FEK Bakkabulindi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The University

Many higher education institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa are underfunded.Consequently, they are operating with encumbering resources constraints that threaten quality assurance. Accordingly, they are working to expand the availability of these resources. Notwithstanding, it is taken for granted that once available, these resources are optimally utilized and that, in instances expanding their availability is not possible, compromising on some elements of the quality of higher education is inevitable. The problem is that this presumption could disguise inadequacies in the utilization of the resources, with the consequence that the institutions’ need for the resources is exaggerated. Preoccupation with expanding the availability of resources could also stifle the innovation of creative ways of making the best use of the resources available. This means that the institutions need to evaluate their utilization of these resources—to pinpoint their need for the resources and potential for quality assurance. This paper reports the findings of a study that responded to this need, taking the case of teaching space at Makerere University. The objective ofthe study was to verify the hypothesis that the University is teaching space constrained. The findings were that the resource is overly underutilized albeit this was disguised by occasional overutilization of the same space, a concomitance that only multidimensional evaluation could unearth. Accordingly, the study gives credence to the hypothesis that shortages of resources at the University, and similar institutions, are ostensible. Therefore, it is recommended that these institutions subject their utilization of resources to rigorous evaluation.Keywords · Resources management · Higher education funding · Educational administration

scholarly journals Unusual in Growth and Composition: Ethiopian Private Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Wondwosen Tamrat ◽  
Daniel Levy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Limited Role ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sub Saharan

Ethiopia’s private higher education (PHE) sector is the largest or second largest in sub-Saharan Africa, however a mix of enabling and restrictive policies have let PHE play a limited role in key respects. This article surveys the current landscape and asks important questions regarding the future of PHE.

scholarly journals Legal Frameworks for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Saint
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
Governance Quality ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Legal Frameworks

A shortage of research on the legal frameworks for higher education is evident in sub-Saharan Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa wide discrepancies in progress are observed. The reforms commonly promote more representative governance, quality assurance, and private provision. A few countries have enacted substantial changes to their legal frameworks. In other countries reforms have been noteworthy but less bold.

scholarly journals African Higher Education: The Rise and Fall in the 20th Century

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goolam Mohamedbhai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
World Conference ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The 1960S

After the independence of the colonies in the 1960s, African universities became autonomous and modeled on European ones. The late 1970s and 1980s became the difficult years of economic turmoil. At the same time, a demand for higher education increased. In the 1990s, most universities in sub-Saharan Africa stood in a deplorable state. The turning point in the African universities' fates came with the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education held in 1998, which provided a framework for renewed support to higher education and led to a revitalization of African universities.

Distance Learning and Virtual Education for Higher Education in Africa: Evaluation of Options and Strategies

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Virtual Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Status ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Education In Africa

AbstractThis paper briefly reviews the status of distance education and virtual education in the higher-education sector in Africa. The key issues affecting distance education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are identified and discussed. An analysis of the major issues facing distance education in SSA is made. It is noted that the full range of opportunities offered by information and communication technology (ICT) for higher education in Africa is largely underexploited. Factors responsible for this situation are identified and a range of strategies is recommended for resolving this situation. Finally, a model of distance education that can potentially enhance the use of ICT in higher education in SSA is proposed.

scholarly journals An Appraisal of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Sintayehu Kassaye Alemu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
Global North ◽  
Sub Saharan

Over the past decades, the development of the internationalisation of higher education has revised the conceptual framework of higher education, enhanced its scope, scale and importance, and transformed its world, as well as reshaping relationships between countries. More powerful universities play a central role and are suppliers of knowledge, whereas weaker institutions and systems with fewer resources and lower academic standards occupy a peripheral position and are consumers. The centre-periphery dichotomy in the internationalisation of higher education undoubtedly presents considerable challenges to the higher education institutions of the peripheries. For developing regions like Africa, higher education is an important instrument for socioeconomic development, and one of the strategies to improve and qualify higher education is internationalisation. In spite of various attempts to enhance the benefits of internationalisation, African higher education has continued to be peripheral, with relationships remaining asymmetrical, unethical and unequal. Along with some positive benefits, internationalisation has brought complicated implications and new challenges, such as the brain drain, cultural values, the commodification of higher education, the persistence of inequality between global north-south universities, and so on. The purpose of the present paper is to highlight the challenges and unintended consequences of the internationalisation of higher education, with a particular focus on Africa.

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