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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822539403321

Autore

Materu Peter (Peter Nicolas)

Titolo

Higher education quality assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa : : status, challenges, opportunities and promising practices / / Peter Materu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2007

ISBN

1-281-00100-7

9786611001001

0-8213-7273-4

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 80 pages ; ; 26 cm

Collana

World Bank working paper ; ; no. 124

Africa human development series

Disciplina

378.68

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Total quality management in higher education - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Quality assurance - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. The Case for Quality Higher Education; LIST OF BOX; 3. The State of Quality Assurance in Africa; LIST OF TABLE; 4. Cost Implications and Financing; 5. Challenges and Opportunities; 6. Innovations and Promising Practices; 7. Options for Capacity Enhancement; Appendix: Summary Status of HE Quality Assurance Implementation in Africa; References

Sommario/riassunto

This report assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance in Sub - Sahara Africa, focusing on degree - granting tertiary institutions. 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 constrains. Only about a third of them have established structured national quality assurance mechanism, often only as recently as during the last ten years. Activities differ in their scope and rigor, ranging from simple licensing of institutions by the minis