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Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries
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October 29, 2015

This paper analyzes a relatively neglected facet of the complex debate regarding human capital – higher (or tertiary) education. It addresses five broad questions examining higher education in developing countries. One, are the economic effects of higher education on developing countries different from those in industrialized countries, with its links with labor markets of lesser… Read more

developing countries, Higher Education
Challenges of developing and retaining the next generation of academics: deficits in academic staff capacity at African universities
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October 29, 2015

This report seeks to analyse the staffing needs of various universities that are members of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA). The purpose is to ascertain the extent of the problem in these institutions, examine their ability to develop the next generation of academics as a means of forestalling the decline and proffer… Read more

Higher Education, staffing deficits
Education
Global Rankings of Universities: A perverse and Present Burden in Whose Interests are we Serving? Global Inequalities and Higher Education
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October 28, 2015

While national rankings of universities have existed for some decades, in recent years the phenomenon of the global rankings of universities has come into prominence. The Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds (THE-QS) ‘World University Rankings’ and the Shanghai Jiao Tong Institute of Higher Education’s (SJTIHE) ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ are the best known of such… Read more

Globalisation, Higher Education, University rankings
The Roles of Higher Education in a Knowledge Economy
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October 28, 2015

This short policy paper provides an overview of the multiple roles an HE system can play in a knowledge society and economy. It highlights the key role of creating and sustaining high-skill ecosystems (HSEs). It then examines the dramatic expansion of HE in the UK, and the issues that, in preparing its workforce for the… Read more

economy, Higher Education, knowledge society
Higher education issues and trends from an international perspective
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October 28, 2015

This report explores the challenge of massification of higher education, and the accommodation of the growth in student numbers in an existing higher education system. It highlights supply side trends and issues, including distance learning and Open Universities, as well as short cycle programmes. It also examines the trends and isssues of the demand side including, amongst… Read more

Demand Side, Higher Education, massification, supply side
Higher Education in the Southern African Region: Current trends, challenges and recommendations
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October 28, 2015

Although there is an increasing demand for higher education in the Southern Africa region, levels of higher education provision and enrolment rates in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are amongst the lowest in the world. While the SADC region’s tertiary enrolment was on par with other parts of the world in the 1970s,… Read more

education policy, governance, Higher Education
Education in a changing world, flexibility, skills and employability
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October 27, 2015

New technologies, globalization, the information revolution, and labor market changes have affected the world economy on an unprecedented scale. As a consequence, the demand for a skilled workforce has increased, world trade and migration have intensified, and the divide between the haves and have‐nots has vastly widened. While many developed countries have by now gone… Read more

Employability, Higher Education, Skills
Education
Higher education as a global commodity: The perils and promises for developing countries
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October 27, 2015

In the context of globalisation and the knowledge economy, there has been a dramatic change in the attitudes of powerful international organisations and governments on the importance of higher education in developing countries, which is now perceived to be central to socio-political and economic development. At the same time, the formidable obstacles to the development of robust and high… Read more

commodity, Higher Education, international collaboration
Capacity Development in Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries
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October 27, 2015

This paper is about capacity development in higher education institutions (HEI) in developing countries. The paper reviews literature in three relevant knowledge domains: capacity building, organizational change and development, and higher education institutions (HEI). The paper also describes and illustrates the needs for increased performance of HEI in developing countries, and presents an integrated framework  indicating concepts and relationships relevant… Read more

capacity development, change management, education systems, Higher Education
Education
What Works? Engaging research to shape policy: The case of grammar
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October 25, 2015

This article explores how literacy research is currently being positioned to address the political imperatives of the day, focusing on debates relating to the teaching of grammar. It takes the international debate about the value of grammar teaching as the context for exploring prevailing ambiguities and tensions in literacy research, arguing a particular view of… Read more

Higher Education, Literacy, research
World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century: Vision and Action
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October 25, 2015

This Declaration emphasises the need for higher education to be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit, with no on discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, language, religion or economic, cultural or social distinctions, or physical disabilities. It establishes principles, and ways of preparing higher education of the tasks that await it in the twenty-first century, despite different national and regional… Read more

Equity, Higher Education, higher education policy
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