Coordinators:
Ndri-Assié-Lumumba (Côte d’Ivoire), Georges Subotsky (Af du
Sud), Djabi Nasser (Algérie)
Advisory Group :
Paschal
Mihyo (Association of African Universities, Accra)
Yann Lebeau (Open University, UK).
Higher Education
is one of the thematic areas at the core of the current
intellectual agenda of the Council. The MWG is the flagship
research vehicle employed by CODESRIA for the promotion of
multi-country and multidisciplinary reflections on critical
questions of concern to the African social research community.
Through this MWG, CODESRIA sought to promote a critical
reflection on the challenges of the regeneration of Africa’s
higher education institutions and systems after the prolonged
crises which they have faced and in the context of the
innumerable problems confronting the continent. The scholarly
and policy debates over these complex processes of crises,
transition and change, as well as the struggles for survival,
adaptation, innovation and relevance vis-à-vis anticipated
national and global trends, are often cast in terms of the
quality and relevance of the HE being dispensed. In Africa, the
question is frequently asked as to whether higher education
institutions (HEIs) and systems, such as they are structured,
are enhancing the capacities of the continent and its peoples to
deal with the challenges of globalisation, or to transform
society for the better. The MWG was therefore designed partly
to initiate studies on African HE and HEIs and systems with a
view to highlighting the multiple ways in which HE has not only
been affected by crises of varying origins and dimensions, but
has also been shaped by the reforms that have been implemented
or are on-going, whether internally driven, both within
institutions and countries, or externally imposed as part of IMF/World
Bank structural adjustment or other donor conditionalities.
Members of the
Team
Sam O
Smah, Nigeria
Coping
Strategies by Universities and Academic and Student Communities
in Nigerian Universities since the Mid-1980s
Luvuyo
Lumkile Lalendle, South Africa
The Meaning,
Construction and Practice of Leadership at South African
Universities
Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, Nigeria
The
Challenges of Achieving Gender Equity in Africa’s Higher
Education: Beyond Access and Representation
Bheki
Mngomezulu, South Africa
Going Beyond
the Call. A Critical Appraisal of Higher Education Policies in
Post-apartheid South Africa From 1994 to 2004
Abdelwahab B. Hafaiedh (Tunisia), Zeynab Samandi (Tunisia), &
Faten M. Adly (Egypt)
Les usages des
NTIC et la nouvelle gouvernance des universités en Afrique du
Nord ; étude comparée sur l’Egypte et la Tunisie
Gerald
Kimani, Kenya
An
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Degree Programmes Offered
Through Open and Distance Study Methods in Public Universities
in Kenya
Olayiwola Erinosho, Nigeria
The Rise of
Private Universities in Nigeria
Christine Kayengo, Zambia
Neoliberalism and University Librairies in Africa: Experiences
from Zambia
Luc Ngwe,
Cameroon
Les
Perspectives de l’Enseignement Supérieur Privé au Cameroun
Honest
Ngowi Prosper, Tanzania
University-Industry Linkages in Africa: Opportunities, Obstacles
and Way Forward in Tanzania
