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8 mars 2015

Safety concerns grow as campus hate crime increases

By Wagdy Sawahel. Arab Muslim students and academics studying and working in western universities and associated research centres are concerned about their safety following last month’s killings of three Arab students near America’s University of North Carolina.
"This was a hate crime – a crime that would have been defined as terrorism if the roles were reversed," several Muslim student associations and Western academics wrote in an open letter to the campus community about the shootings. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Africa needs differentiated higher education systems

By Nico Cloete. In a seminal 1993 article, Manuel Castells argued that universities are social systems and historically produced institutions that attempt to make seemingly contradictory functions compatible. He described the four functions of universities as: producing values and social legitimation, selecting the dominant elites, training the labour force, and generating scientific knowledge and supporting its application in society. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Managing contradictory functions in African flagship universities

By Nico Cloete. The challenge for higher education systems in Africa is not to have universities as societal transformers, or to isolate universities from society into secluded laboratories or the boardrooms of multinational firms, but to develop institutions that are solid and dynamic enough to withstand tensions that will trigger the simultaneous performance of seemingly contradictory functions. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Re-thinking student engagement’s role in African political development

By Thierry M Luescher-Mamashela. Flagship and elite universities especially have played a key role in the selection of elites; in their socialisation and the formation of networks for their social cohesion. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Academic incentives for knowledge production

By Patrício Langa. Academic incentives as a driver for knowledge outputs have been controversial in many higher education and research systems. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Research productivity at flagship African universities

By Peter Maassen. Of the four core functions of universities identified by Manuel Castells [1], the African university is struggling most with revitalising its research function. All relevant indicators show that despite the existence of a number of highly productive scholars and academic units, overall the research productivity of nationally leading African universities is lagging far behind productivity at similar universities in the rest of the world. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Lack of funds may not prevent progress

By Makki Marseilles. Greek universities were brought to the brink of bankruptcy as a result of the previous government’s policies. These included reductions in state funding of almost 60%, a huge cut in administrative staff to the extent of paralysis, and student transfers from district universities to metropolitan ones beyond the ability of the latter to cater for them. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

South Africa as a continental PhD hub?

By Nico Cloete, Charles Sheppard, Tracy Bailey and Karen MacGregor. Internationally, the importance of the doctorate has grown. Heightened attention has not been predominantly concerned with the traditional role of the PhD – providing a future supply of academics – but has focused on the increasingly important role higher education is perceived to play in the knowledge economy, specifically with regard to high-level skills. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

International cooperation – Boosting African research

By Robert Tijssen. Following global trends, internationalisation in Africa’s higher education landscape is driven by a range of interconnecting new developments – an increase in the number of students and institutions, more mobility of students and staff across national boundaries, the growing role of English in teaching and research, improved internet connectivity and a host of policy initiatives such as centres of excellence, quality assurance frameworks and programmes to enhance institutional collaboration. Read more...

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8 mars 2015

Academic excellence in flagship universities – Myth or reality?

By Florence Nakayiwa. The position of Africa within the higher education arena can be discerned through the performance of predominant traditional universities. Through their mission and vision statements these universities have characterised themselves as centres of academic excellence that are expected to be selective yet comprehensive, have high research profiles and contribute to knowledge production. Read more...

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