Performance – not aspiration – needed to revitalise higher education

By Nico Cloete. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, influential voices started calling for the ‘revitalisation’ of the African university and for linking higher education to development. This resulted in a series of ‘revitalisation’ initiatives in the years that followed and the term persists to this day, as evidenced in the title of the upcoming African Higher Education Summit – “Revitalising Higher Education for Africa’s Future”. Read more...