Curriculum mechanics gear up to ‘Tune’ higher education machinery

By Ard Jongsma. As the Africa-European Union Harmonisation and Tuning Pilot initiative draws to a close, the question arises whether the work has been a drop in the ocean or a meaningful contribution to the harmonisation of African higher education. Now that it has been 'tuned', will it actually run better?
The problem, of course, is that nothing really has been 'tuned' yet. Pilots being pilots, they tend to take a sample, play around with it and close again, leaving only the hope that someone else will mainstream the results. Many foreign donors have been criticised for this practice and the European Union is no exception. More...