2016
DOI: 10.1177/0021909616677370
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Re-imagining Africa as a Knowledge Economy: Premises and Promises of Recent Higher Education Development Initiatives

Abstract: Africa is being re-imagined as a knowledge economy, and higher education (HE) systems have been propelled into the centre of national economic plans and strategies. This paper provides an analysis of four recent major initiatives directed to the revitalisation of HE in sub-Saharan Africa: the Pan African University (the Dakar Declaration and Action Plan on Revitalising Higher Education for Africa 's Future (2015). Guided by critical frame analysis, we examined assumptions and expectations of these regionally/g… Show more

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“…There are, it should be emphasised, some positive trends and initiatives in this context. There has been a significant increase in investment in African research in the last decade, driven by an effort to create knowledge economies, and resulting in increasing academic output (Molla and Cuthbert, 2018;Arvanitis and Mouton, 2019). Africa's share of global scientific output has risen to above 3% according to some authors (Arvanitis and Mouton, 2019).…”
Section: The Country Deficit Perspectivementioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are, it should be emphasised, some positive trends and initiatives in this context. There has been a significant increase in investment in African research in the last decade, driven by an effort to create knowledge economies, and resulting in increasing academic output (Molla and Cuthbert, 2018;Arvanitis and Mouton, 2019). Africa's share of global scientific output has risen to above 3% according to some authors (Arvanitis and Mouton, 2019).…”
Section: The Country Deficit Perspectivementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Почему же тогда исследовательские университеты важны для Африки? В начале 2000-х годов международные организации, такие как Всемирный банк, и региональные ассоциации, такие как Африканский союз и Африканский банк развития, выступили с инициативой мер, которые были призваны вдохнуть новую жизнь в системы высшего образования в Африке, чтобы привести их в соответствие с потребностями экономического развития и стратегиями национальных правительств [Molla, Cuthbert, 2016]. Всемирный банк и сегодня остается главным инициатором продвижения экономики знаний в разных странах мира, поддерживая образование и предоставляя свободный доступ к ресурсам и интерактивным инструментам для расчета показателей в рамках методологии оценки знаний (The Knowledge Assessment Methodology, KAM) [Weber, 2011].…”
Section: методы исследованияunclassified
“…С конца 1990-х годов высшее образование в Африке вновь стало привлекательным для инвесторов [Assie-Lumumba, 2006]. В начале 2000-х возникли инициативы, прежде всего исходившие от Всемирного банка и Африканского союза, по оживлению африканского высшего образования для удовлетворения экономических потребностей государств и выполнения государственных программ [Molla, Cuthbert, 2016].…”
Section: методы исследованияunclassified
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“…The late 1990s was a landmark period in the transformation of HE systems in the developing world. With the prevalence of the knowledge economy discourse in the 'global education policy field' (Rizvi and Lingard, 2010), providers of educational development aid such as the World Bank reframed the value of HE in society as critical and committed to supporting reform efforts in developing countries such as Ethiopia (Molla and Cuthbert, 2018;World Bank, 1998). Locally, as part of its subscription to the structural adjustment programmes and the poverty reduction strategies of the IMF and the World Bank, the new Ethiopian Government introduced major macroeconomic reforms, during and after its unstable transitional period (Abegaz, 1999).…”
Section: A Brief Account Of Higher Education Development In Ethiopiamentioning
confidence: 99%