HERANA – 10 years of growing research universities

By Nico Cloete and Francois van Schalkwyk. During the early 2000s, a broad agreement emerged that higher education was important for development in Africa, although there were multiple, often competing, discourses about the roles of universities in relation to development. Within this zeitgeist, a number of development aid agencies agreed that a different, more collaborative approach to linking higher education and development was required. More...