Admissions Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of Access Patterns to Higher Education in Africa

Oanda, Ibrahim Ogachi

doi:10.1017/9781108559607.007

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“…Within the African continent, recent privatizations of universities have deepened student exclusion in student services, and the desire to use student services as a means of controlling instead of developing students has become widespread (Munyae et al, 2017;Oanda et al, 2020). Even within South Africa, despite the developed nature of student services in the universities, recent studies argue that student affairs are wedged between students and management (Bawa et al, 2020).…”

Section: Full Service and Minimalist Universitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The nature of student services that emerged in these conditions was framed to satisfy these concerns rather than advance the educational needs of students (Sicherman et al, 2005). This system has been maintained to date in several universities across the African continent, suppressing students' concerns on behalf of university administrators who view student passivity as the definition of a good student (Oanda et al, 2020).…”

Section: Role Of Students In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contextualizing student affairs and services in global higher education

Jamieson,

Coggo Cristofoletti,

Oanda

et al. 2023

New Drctns for Student Srvcs

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This article outlines major developments in higher education policies in terms of massification, diversification and stratification, marketization, and globalization. Although these developments are global, their local instantiations create a diverse backdrop for student affairs and services. By giving examples from different contexts, we illustrate the various effects that the enlargement of higher education systems, their diversification, pressures to marketize, and increased global mobility have on the provision of student services and access to them. Through these windows, we demonstrate how student services have developed in different contexts and what implications this has on student access to those services. We conclude the article by presenting future topics for student services research and policy.

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Section: Full Service and Minimalist Universitiesmentioning

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Section: Role Of Students In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing student affairs and services in global higher education

Jamieson,

Coggo Cristofoletti,

Oanda

et al. 2023

New Drctns for Student Srvcs

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“…These include e.g. data published by the London Metal Exchange (LME 2022), Fastmarkets (Fastmarkets 2022), Oanda (Oanda 2022), etc. Exploring these other data sources is beyond the scope of this study, but may be relevant in further developments, as it will potentially open the door to: -More complete data, i.e.…”

Section: Improving Cfs Reliability and Completenessmentioning

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A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value

Ardente

Beylot

Zampori

2022

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose Several methods were developed to quantify the damage to mineral resources in LCA. Building on these and further expanding the concept of how to assess mineral resources in LCA, the authors developed in previous articles a method to account for dissipative resource flows in life cycle inventory (LCI). This article presents a price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the potential impact of dissipative uses of resources. Methods This article firstly defines an impact pathway from resource use to resource dissipation and subsequent damage to the safeguard subject for “mineral resources”. It explores the quantification of this damage through the definition of characterization factors (CFs), for application to dissipative flows reported in LCI datasets. Market prices are used as a relevant proxy for the multiple, complex and varied functions and values held by mineral resources. Price data are collected considering a 50-year timeframe. Intervals of 10, 15, 20 and 30 years are considered for sensitivity analysis. Price-based CFs are tested on one cradle-to-gate case-study (copper production), in combination with accounted resources dissipated across the life-cycle. An approach to calculate the normalization factor (NF) is explored at the EU level. Results and discussion CFs are calculated for 66 mineral resources, considering copper as reference substance. Precious and specialty metals have the largest CFs. Minerals are instead ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy. New insights that this method brings in LCA are discussed for the copper production case-study. Losses due to final disposal of tailings are key (90% of total value loss), as opposed to e.g. emissions to environment. Relevance, robustness, completeness and consistency of the price-based CFs are discussed. This method in particular offers a relatively large coverage of elementary flows, with underlying data of good quality. Sensitivity of CFs to the chosen time interval is relatively limited. Initial analysis for a NF based on 14 key resources dissipated in the EU in 2016 is presented. Conclusions The developed CFs are relevant to address the issue of mineral resources value loss in LCA. They may be used in combination with dissipation-based methods at the LCI level, as tested in this study, or potentially (i) with classical extraction-based LCI datasets or (ii) as potential complements to existing life cycle impact assessment methods not capturing damage to resource value. Future refinements shall aim at extension to additional mineral resources and investigate the possibility of regionalisation of CFs and NF calculation.

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“…Similarly, Oanda, I. (2020) [20] highlighted that in Africa, candidates may not appropriately select their educational field due to the lack of admission criteria that define clear pathways to learners, therefore emphasis transparent admission criteria were made. BQA ensure that all qualifications aligned to National Qualification Framework are supported with clearly defined admission criteria which is part of Programme Review Standards for "cross boarder qualifications" (Programme Review Framework Cycle 2).…”

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The Relationship between Sustainable Internationalization Strategies and Qualification Alignments to National Qualification Framework

AlDhaen¹

2020

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The Majority of Higher Education Institutes attracted international collaboration and affiliations as part of internationalization strategy. Upon hosting an academic programme, both universities must assure that the programmes are equivalent in standards, with mutual agreement upon the methodology of delivery. The purpose of this study is to share successful practices of universities that sustained hosting cross boarder academic programmes hosted by local universities with international award from the UK and USA at postgraduate level. The paper will share the method and the adapted framework to enable a long-term relationship between both HEIs, compliance with regulatory requirements, as well as addressing graduate attributes in line with both HEI's missions. This paper will also demonstrate challenges and advantages of alignment to local qualification framework to maintain the equivalency of standards that leads to a sustainable internationalization strategy. As a major conclusion, this paper will demonstrate strategic decisions that could be adapted by leaders of Higher Education Institutions, while considering International collaboration or activating an International agreement. We can analyse this by considering local regulatory requirements and alignment with National Qualification Framework as well as linking the policies and procedures to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The findings of this paper provide insights for leaders of Higher Education Institutions and regulators to align their frameworks and policies to support Internationalization.

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Admissions Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of Access Patterns to Higher Education in Africa

Cited by 3 publications

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Contextualizing student affairs and services in global higher education

Contextualizing student affairs and services in global higher education

A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value

The Relationship between Sustainable Internationalization Strategies and Qualification Alignments to National Qualification Framework

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