Developing Sustainable Higher Education Leadership Models in Tanzania
Higher Education Institutions in Tanzania are increasingly facing a decline in government subvention and reduced funding from other sources, including Faith-Based Organizations. This has led to a noticeable shift in emphasis within universities from academic excellence to income generation, with adverse effects on teaching, research and community outreach performance
Strengthening Higher Education Leadership in Africa: A Study of Ghana’s Situation
The liberal higher education landscape that has emerged in Africa is a product of a confuence of factors that defne the neoliberal agenda in the continent. The prior notions of state responsibility for funding higher education have largely disappeared. The hegemonic leverage that the World Bank came to wield in
Rethinking Higher Education Governance in Ghana: Reflections of a Professional Administrator
This book is an institutional history of leadership in higher education institutions in Ghana, recounted through a rich narrative of the life and career trajectory of one of Ghana’s pioneering university administrators.
CODESRIA Catalogue of publications 2016 – 2017
The CODESRIA Publications Programme was designed to disseminate the results and ideas generated by networks of research institutions, seminars, conferences and other scienti c activities. Given that one of CODESRIA’s principal objectives
Leadership and Crises in Nigerian Universities. Can Women Make a Difference?
Currently, globalization has made it necessary that universities operate optimally in order to compete effectively globally. In this regard, crises in Nigerian universities constitute a barrier to this goal and to sustainable development. The book-leadership and crises in Nigerian universities
Quality Assurance in Ghanaian Higher Education Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints
This work examines quality assurance processes and practices in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana, using a mixed method approach, which combined surveys, reviews and expert interviews of past and present quality assurance directors. Ten universities were studied. The results demonstrate that quality assurance at higher institutions of learning in Ghana
International Justice, Reconciliation and Peace in Africa by Charles Chernor Jalloh
IN the context of continuing gross human rights abuses and challenges to peace and security in Africa, international criminal justice has become a subject of much debate in terms of its contributions to ending impunity and contributing to more secure and peaceful societies on the continent.
Quality Assurance in Ghanaian Higher Education Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints
Quality assurance and relevance of higher education have become critical issues on the global higher education landscape especially in the wake of the need for relevance, accountability and value for money. The commoditisation, privatisation, masssification and new modes of higher education delivery (long distance and virtual modes) as well as
Africa Development, Volume 32, No 3, 2007
Protecting intellectual property rights has become essential in encouraging cutting- edge scholarship that advances the frontiers of knowledge. For a long time, the majority of Africa’s intelligentsia has worked in local and international environments that have exploited the continent’s intellectual capital. Even in contexts where intellectual property rights are enforced,
Africa Development, Volume 32, No 2, 2007
Land is a very important asset and a means to sustain livelihood. In the face of a rapidly growing global population, increase in technological capacity, and affluence, the earth’s land cover has been transformed, especially in developing countries. At the same time, social organisation, attitudes, and values have also undergone
