By Njuguna Ng'ethe
This identify explores a space of tertiary schooling that's presently understudied; this is often the level and nature of differentiation and articulation in African tertiary schooling structures. the final discovering is that the binary procedure is dominant, characterized through universities and polytechnics as designated kinds of associations. Differentiation is obviously obvious in Africa. despite the fact that, notwithstanding diverse in nature and volume, the differentiation is generally horizontal in place of vertical. Articulation, nevertheless, appears in its infancy as a few universities, of their admission standards, don't understand polytechnic skills, and mobility among related establishment varieties is unusual. whereas nationwide coverage, industry forces, institutional reforms, undefined, and nearby tasks force differentiation, source constraints, isomorphism, governance and investment buildings, and the absence of measurement and form debates act as inhibitors. call for for entry seems to be the single motive force for articulation whereas nationwide regulations, inner governance constructions, and industry/labour industry inhibit its development. The examine concludes that wisdom of either differentiation and articulation in African tertiary structures remains to be scanty. as a result, this exploratory examine should still bring about extra paintings aimed toward anchoring differentiation and articulation inside of nationwide tertiary schooling platforms.
Read or Download Differentiation and Articulation in Tertiary Education Systems: A Study of Twelve Countries PDF
Best reform & policy books
School Choice in the Real World: Lessons from Arizona Charter Schools
Tuition selection is the main stated reform of yankee public schooling, but writings approximately selection stay hugely speculative simply because no country has followed a unfastened marketplace method of education--until now. The constitution university is quick changing into probably the most major makes an attempt at public schooling reform during this nation.
This booklet examines seriously the information and function of Paulo Freire as secretary of schooling in Brazil within the early Nineteen Nineties, in the course of the socialist democratic management of the staff’ social gathering in São Paulo. With an emphasis on conception, the authors speak about the relationships among the country and social activities in addition to the relationships among academics and curriculum reform.
Using Research Evidence in Education: From the Schoolhouse Door to Capitol Hill
This publication contains a set of rigorous and available experiences relating to “research proof” from quite a few degrees and academic vantage issues. It additionally presents the reader with considerate commentaries from major thinkers within the box. The advanced strategy of buying, reading, and utilizing learn proof makes for a wealthy and below tested quarter in academic study, perform and policymaking.
Women's Agency and Educational Policy: The Experiences of the Women of Kilome, Kenya
This interesting e-book examines rural African women's studies of schooling in Kilome, Kenya, delivering engrossing, and generally heartbreaking, testimony at the cultural, old, social, fiscal, and political components that experience formed, and proceed to form, women's academic and financial possibilities there.
- Successful Principal Leadership In Times Of Change: An International Perspective
- Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
- Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age
- A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context (Palgrave Macmillan's Postcolonial Studies in Education)
- Taking Education Really Seriously: Four Years Hard Labour
Extra info for Differentiation and Articulation in Tertiary Education Systems: A Study of Twelve Countries
Sample text
T. = not included in tertiary system. The Prevalence of Binary Systems Though the systems are quite varied, evidence suggests that the binary system is dominant, with universities and polytechnics as the main sub-systems (see Table 4). Most systems began with a binary structure, and Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania retain them today. However, variations occur around the binary model—with Cameroon, Nigeria, and Senegal being classified as differentiated, Uganda as trinary, and Zambia as unitary.
These differences originate in the varieties of colonial experience, political economy and immediate post-independence history. They also reflect how countries have subsequently been able to position themselves in relation to the internationalization of higher education and to the market forces associated with globalization. Thus, South Africa, for example, exhibits a fascinating picture of institutional differentiation quite simply because this was an integral dimension of the apartheid policy.
In process of establishment. X = in existence, but data not collected. t. = not included in tertiary system. The Prevalence of Binary Systems Though the systems are quite varied, evidence suggests that the binary system is dominant, with universities and polytechnics as the main sub-systems (see Table 4). Most systems began with a binary structure, and Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania retain them today. However, variations occur around the binary model—with Cameroon, Nigeria, and Senegal being classified as differentiated, Uganda as trinary, and Zambia as unitary.
