Higher Education Quality Assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa : Status, Challenges, Opportunities, and Promising Practices
This report maps and assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance (QA) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It centers on quality assurance in degree-granting tertiary institutions, but also incorporates, where available, information on...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/8340167/higher-education-quality-assurance-sub-saharan-africa-status-challenges-opportunities-promising-practices http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6757 |
| Summary: | This report maps and assesses the status
and practice of higher education quality assurance (QA) in
Sub-Saharan Africa. It centers on quality assurance in
degree-granting tertiary institutions, but also
incorporates, where available, information on other types of
tertiary education. A main finding is that structured
national-level quality assurance processes in African higher
education are a very recent phenomenon and that most
countries face major capacity constraints. The research for
this report was conducted between November 2005 and December
2006 through document and web reviews, interviews and six
detailed country case studies covering Cameroon, Ghana,
Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. This study
has two main purposes, one being to establish a baseline on
the status of quality assurance in higher education in
Africa. A second is to provide information to education
policymakers, stakeholders (including employers) and
development partners involved in tertiary education in
Africa that may assist them with identification and
prioritization of capacity enhancement needs for quality improvement. |
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