A Decade of Strengthening Higher Education and Research Capacity in Africa [Carnegie Corporation of New York, December 2021]

Title:

A Decade of Strengthening Higher Education and Research Capacity in Africa 

 

Published:

Carnegie Corporation of New York, 23 December 2021

https://www.carnegie.org/topics/topic-articles/african-academics/decade-strengthening-higher-education-and-research-capacity-africa/

 

From the article:

The Corporation has invested $134.43 million to help the continent develop and retain the next generation of African academics, build connections between members of the African academic diaspora and African universities, and facilitate higher education policy and research.

Discourse on Pedagogy between Academy and the Public: A Proposal for Curriculum Transformation and Renewal in South African Higher Religious and Theological Education [Scholarly Article - Religion and Theology, December 2021]

Title:

Discourse on Pedagogy between Academy and the Public: A Proposal for Curriculum Transformation and Renewal in South African Higher Religious and Theological Education

 

Author:

Amanda L. du Plessis 

North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

 

Published:

Religion and Theology, 16 December 2021

https://brill.com/view/journals/rt/28/3-4/article-p233_6.xml

 

Abstract:

This theoretical paper reviews the current theory about curriculum transformation and renewal in higher education in Africa and, in particular, South Africa. Although the findings are applicable to different universities, the pedagogical approach of North-West University will be the focus. The aim is to understand curriculum responsiveness pertaining to decolonisation and sustainable development that can align with the African Union’s proposed Agenda 2063. The epistemology is from a practical public theological paradigm. A single-system research method has been followed to integrate current research about tertiary education curriculum transformation with the latest practice theory. Three different aspects are explored, namely how Agenda 2063 is applicable to higher education in a post-colonial context, the fibre of human relations based on Nagy’s contextual theory, and the curriculum as a powerful tool for change. The paper concludes that lecturers and students can join forces in growing towards the Africa they want by active experiential student-centred pedagogy.

AFRICA - University systems in 45 countries have barely been studied [University World News, February 2022]

Title:

University systems in 45 countries have barely been studied 

 

Author:

Wagdy Sawahel  

 

Published:

University World News, 3 February 2022

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220202081628852

From the article:

Higher education in Africa has become a frequently researched topic from 2000 onwards, but the tertiary systems in 45 out of 54 countries on the continent have barely been studied, and 20 countries lack internal higher education expertise.

 

AFRICA - Low quality of African engineers disconcerting – UNESCO [University World News, 2021]

Title:

Low quality of African engineers disconcerting – UNESCO 

 

Author:

Wachira Kigotho  

 

Published:

University World News, 24 March 2021 

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210314132106753

 

From the article:

African countries have been urged to professionalise their university engineering education systems as one way of enhancing capacity building and of producing competent engineers who would boost the quality of life on the continent and create opportunities for sustainable economic development.  

 

The call was made by UNESCO in its second engineering report, Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals, published on 4 March 2021.

 

AFRICA - Promoting digital transformation with a 12-point agenda [University World News, 11 February 2021]

Title:

Promoting digital transformation with a 12-point agenda

 

Authors:

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza & Paul Mzee Okanda

 

Published:

University World News, 11 February 2021

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210208135348558

From the article:

According to a survey by the Association of Commonwealth Universities prior to the pandemic, only 16% of African respondents indicated that online teaching had occurred in all or most departments.  

 

By May 2020, 74% said that all or most teaching and learning was online.

TEDx Talk (video): Recognizing Quality Higher Education in Africa

TEDx Talk title:
Recognizing quality higher education in Africa 

Presenter:
Catherine Delight

Date:
9 May 2019

From the description:
"Catherine Delight, an alumni of the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa, describes the trend of talented, young Africans flooding into Western universities and her own experience of continuing higher education within the African continent."

To watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZlLj3m2s8