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Universities and economic development in Africa : Pact, academic core and Coordination.
Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a devel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
African MindsPUBLISHER, African Books Collective Limited [distributor]
April 2011 ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Tables, figures and boxes; About this report; A note about the data timeframe; Acknowledgements; The project group; Acronyms and abbreviations; Executive summary; Chapter 1
- Introduction; 1.1 Contextualising the project: The relationship between higher education and development; 1.1.1 International trends; 1.1.2 The African context; 1.1.3 The focus of prior research; 1.2 Project focus and methodology; 1.3 Analytical starting points for the study; 1.3.1 What the project is not doing.
- Chapter 2
- Universities and economic development: Evidence of a pact?2.1 The role of knowledge and universities in development; 2.1.1 A role for knowledge and universities in national and institutional policies and plans; 2.1.2 Notions about the role of knowledge and universities; Chapter 3
- The academic core of eight African universities; 3.1 Methodology; 3.2 The academic core data; 3.3 The strength of and changes in the academic cores; 3.4 Disjunctures between capacity and productivity; Chapter 4
- Coordination and connectedness; 4.1 Coordination and implementation of knowledge policies.
- 4.1.1 National coordination4.1.2 Implementation; 4.2 University connectedness to external stakeholders; 4.2.1 Industry and community; 4.2.2 Foreign donors; 4.3 The connectedness of development activities to the academic core; 4.3.1 Methodology; 4.3.2 The project data and analysis; 4.3.3 Discussion; Chapter 5
- Conclusions and some implications; 5.1 Pact needed on 'engine for development' role for universities; 5.2 Strengthening the academic core
- incentives are key; 5.3 Coordination and connectedness to development; List of sources.
- Appendix A.A higher education and development profile of the countriesAppendix B. List of interviewees; Appendix C. Indicators of pact, coordination and implementation; Appendix D. Problems in collecting academic core data; Appendix E. Academic core indicators and ratings; Back cover.