TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woldegiorgis,Emnet Tadesse
TI  - Regionalization of higher education in Africa: the operationalization of the African Union higher education harmonization strategy 
T2  - Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung,
SN  - 3643907761
AV  - LA1503 .W65 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - LIT
KW  - African Union
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Africa
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Student mobility
KW  - College integration
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304); Preface --; Acknowledgement --; Acronyms and abbreviations --; Tables and figures --; Introduction --; Conceptual, theoretical and operationalization frameworks --; Conceptual frameworks --; Higher education and higher education systems --; Globalization and higher education --; Internationalization of higher education systems --; Regionalization of higher education --; Harmonization as a strategy for regionalization --; Theoretical framework --; Theories of regional integration --; Neo-functionalism --; Intergovernmentalism --; Regional integration theories and regionalization of higher education --; The application on actors dynamics --; Application on policy processes --; Operationalization framework --; Conclusion --; Higher education in Africa : a historical context --; The pre-colonial context --; Colonial context --; Anglophone colonial higher education settings --; Francophone colonial higher education settings --; Lusophone colonial higher education settings --; Concluding remarks --; Policy trends in post-independence Africa --; Developmental universities of the 1960s and 1970s --; The trends of Africanization --; The role as agent of state-building --; Period of crisis (1970s-1980S) --; High enrolment rates --; Faculty shortage and brain drain --; Quality and relevance --; Governance, leadership and management --; Changes and continuities in the post 1990S --; Economic recovery --; Re-positioning the role of higher education --; Re-aligning relevance to the market --; Growing concern on access, equity and quality --; Conclusion --; Implications of international trends and developments on regionalization processes of higher education in Africa --; Implications of globalization --; The introduction of market elements --; Growing trends of de-territorialization --; Internationalization of African higher education --; Student mobility in African higher education --; Inter-regional African students mobility trends --; Challenges of inter-regional student mobility --; Intra-regional African students mobility trends --; Challenges of intra-regional student mobility --; International partnership in higher education in Africa --; Challenges of higher education partnership in Africa --; Implications of globalization and internationalization on regionalization --; Conclusion --; The evolution of regionalization of higher education in Africa --; Early moves towards regionalization --; The au, nepad regional higher education dialogue --; Implications of external initiatives --; The bologna process in brief --; The implication of the bologna process --; Fragmented sub-regional initiatives in francophone Africa --; Fragmented sub-regional initiatives in Anglophone Africa --; Fragmented sub-regional initiatives in Lusophone Africa --; The evolutionary dynamics of regionalization in Africa --; Conclusion --; The African union higher education harmonization strategy : the political, functional and organizational dimensions --; The policy context --; Context within Africa higher education space --; Context within the institutional dynamics of the African Union --; Context within the African Union education policies --; The AU strategic plan 2004-2007 --; Second decade of education for Africa (2006-2015) --; The harmonization strategy --; The political dimension --; The rationales for higher education harmonization --; Goals and principles of the harmonization strategy --; The functional dimension --; Mobility : Mwalimu Nyerere mobility scheme --; Pan-African graduate training and research networks --; Tuning Africa --; Quality assurance and accreditation mechanisms --; The African quality rating mechanism (AQRM) --; African quality assurance network (AfriQAN) --; Organizational dimension --; Conclusion --; Challenges of the African union higher education harmonization strategy --; Introduction --; Political challenges --; The quest for legitimacy --; Top-down non-participatory approach --; Contents --; Functional challenges --; Challenges of Mwalimu Nyerere programme --; Challenges of the Pan-African university network --; Challenges of tuning Africa --; Challenges of Pan-African quality assurance and accreditation mechanisms --; Organizational challenges --; Institutional capacity --; Actors dynamics --; Fragmentation of functional processes --; Constraints of other enabling factors --; Summary and conclusion --; Introduction to the conclusion --; Research summary --; Key findings and implications --; Regionalization as a response to external pressure --; Regionalization as donor dependent and externally driven process with poor legitimacy at home --; Discrepancy between expectations and operationalization --; Considerations for future policy and research interventions --; Bibliography
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