Universities and Economic Development in Africa : : Pact, academic core and coordination / / Nico Cloete, Tracy Bailey, Peter Maassen.

• VerfasserIn: Cloete, Nico,; Bailey, Tracy,; Maassen, Peter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bailey, Tracy,; Maassen, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cape Town, South Africa : : African Minds,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (110 pages)

Universities and economic development in Africa presents the synthesis and includes the key findings of case studies of eight African countries and universities. The analysis and discussion presented in the book draw three main conclusions. First, there was a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) abo...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Tables, figures and boxes
• About this report
• A note about the data timeframe
• Acknowledgements
• The project group
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Executive summary
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• 1.1 Contextualising the project: The relationship between higher education and development
• 1.1.1 International trends
• 1.1.2 The African context
• 1.1.3 The focus of prior research
• 1.2 Project focus and methodology
• 1.3 Analytical starting points for the study
• 1.3.1 What the project is not doing Chapter 2
• Universities and economic development: Evidence of a pact?2.1 The role of knowledge and universities in development
• 2.1.1 A role for knowledge and universities in national and institutional policies and plans
• 2.1.2 Notions about the role of knowledge and universities
• Chapter 3
• The academic core of eight African universities
• 3.1 Methodology
• 3.2 The academic core data
• 3.3 The strength of and changes in the academic cores
• 3.4 Disjunctures between capacity and productivity
• Chapter 4
• Coordination and connectedness
• 4.1 Coordination and implementation of knowledge policies 4.1.1 National coordination4.1.2 Implementation
• 4.2 University connectedness to external stakeholders
• 4.2.1 Industry and community
• 4.2.2 Foreign donors
• 4.3 The connectedness of development activities to the academic core
• 4.3.1 Methodology
• 4.3.2 The project data and analysis
• 4.3.3 Discussion
• Chapter 5
• Conclusions and some implications
• 5.1 Pact needed on 'engine for development' role for universities
• 5.2 Strengthening the academic core
• incentives are key
• 5.3 Coordination and connectedness to development
• List of sources Appendix A.A higher education and development profile of the countriesAppendix B. List of interviewees
• Appendix C. Indicators of pact, coordination and implementation
• Appendix D. Problems in collecting academic core data
• Appendix E. Academic core indicators and ratings
• Back cover.