Higher Education in Africa

This is something of a follow-up to my posting last month about Higher Education in Developing Countries.

There are a number of interesting sources of information on this topic. UNESCO has a website with links to reports including:

* Inventory of major projects in /on higher education and research in Africa by the Africa Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge.

* International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education (HEDBIB).

* Arusha Convention on the recognition of qualifications in higher education in Africa.

* "Guide to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education"

* "Recent developments and future prospects of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st century" (published for the Meeting of Higher Education Partners (World Conference on Higher Education +5, Paris, 2003).

* "The African university at the threshold of the new millennium: potential, process, performance and prospects."

* Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Certificates, Diplomas, Degrees and other Academic Qualifications in Higher Education in the African States.

* "Recent Developments and Future Prospects of Higher Education in sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century (published for the Meeting of Higher Education Partners" (World Conference on Higher Education +5, Paris, 2003)

* "The African University at the Threshold of the New Millennium: Potential, Process, Performance and Prospects."

Note also this UNESCO publication: "Diversification of Higher Education and the Changing Role of Knowledge and Research: Papers produced for the UNESCO Forum Regional Scientific Committee For Europe and North America."

Here are some reports from the World Bank that are relevant to universities in Africa:

* "Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education"

* "A chance to learn: knowledge and finance for education in Sub-Saharan Africa"

* "Improving Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things that Work" (Report of the Africa Regional Training Conference on Tertiary Education" held in Accra, Ghana on September 22-25, 2003.)

* "Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa"

Or, more generally, the website of the World Bank's Africa Region Human Development Working Paper Series.

Also check out:

* The Association of African Universities.

* International Association of Universities (IAU)

* IAU/UNESCO Information Center

Check out also my social bookmarking, especially the things that are tagged both Africa and Higher.Ed.