Higher education quality assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa [[electronic resource] ] : status, challenges, opportunities and promising practices / / Peter Materu
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| Autore: |
Materu Peter (Peter Nicolas)
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| Titolo: |
Higher education quality assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa [[electronic resource] ] : status, challenges, opportunities and promising practices / / Peter Materu
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (108 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 378.68 |
| Soggetto topico: | Education, Higher - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
| Total quality management in higher education - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
| Quality assurance - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Higher education quality assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| ISBN: | 1-281-00100-7 |
| 9786611001001 | |
| 0-8213-7273-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451738303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Africa Region human development series.
World Bank working paper ; ; no. 124.