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Author Langa, PatrÌcio Vitorino

Title Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries
Published Oxford : African Minds, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (122 pages)
Contents Cover ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Preface; Executive summary and structure; Chapter 1 -- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Objectives of the study; 1.3 Methodology of the study; Chapter 2 -- ANGOLA; 2.1 Country profile; 2.2 Background and historical context of higher education; 2.3 Trends of expansion, diversification and differentiation; 2.3.1 Institutions and programmes; 2.3.2 The establishment of Agostinho Neto University (ANU); 2.3.3 The emergence of private universities
2.4 Changes in higher education governance2.4.1 Changing governance contexts; 2.4.2 Quality assurance; 2.5 Financing higher education; 2.5.1 Sources of funding and expenditure on higher education; 2.5.2 Tuition fees and cost-sharing; 2.6 Access and equity; 2.7 ICT in Angolan higher education; 2.7.1 ICT policy development in Angola; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 -- CAPE VERDE; 3.1 Country profile; 3.2 Background and historical context of higher education; 3.3 Trends of expansion, diversification and differentiation; 3.4 Changes in higher education governance; 3.5 Financing higher education
3.5.1 Tuitions fees and cost-sharing3.5.2 Shifting from international to local scholarships; 3.6 Quality assurance; 3.7 ICT in higher education; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 -- GUINEA-BISSAU; 4.1 Country profile; 4.2 Background and historical context of higher education; 4.2.1 The development of post-secondary education; 4.2.2 The birth of university education: Faculties of Medicine and Law; 4.3 Trends of expansion, diversification and differentiation; 4.3.1 Emergence of private higher education; 4.3.2 The rise of a new higher education landscape; 4.4 Amílcar Cabral University: A dream deferred
4.5 The governance of higher education4.5.1 An unregulated system? Quality assurance; 4.5.2 Financing and access in higher education; 4.6 ICT in higher education; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 -- MOZAMBIQUE; 5.1 Country profile; 5.2 The genesis of higher education; 5.2.1 Colonial period; 5.2.2 Independence and socialist period; 5.2.3 Multi-party democracy and free-market period; 5.3 Trends of expansion, diversification and differentiation; 5.3.1 Expansion of higher education institutions; 5.3.2 Classification and differentiation of higher education institutions
5.3.3 Academic programmes offered in different higher education institutions5.3.4 Expansion in student enrolment; 5.3.5 Projected scenarios of growth in student enrolment 2012-2025; 5.4 Changes in higher education governance; 5.5 Financing higher education; 5.6 ICT in higher education; 5.6.1 Second-generation providers; 5.6.2 Variables affecting ICT-enabled education; REFERENCES; Chapter 6 -- SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE; 6.1 Country profile; 6.2 Background and historical context of higher education; 6.3 Trends of expansion, diversity and differentiation; 6.3.1 Students in the higher education system
Summary This publication is the result of a baseline study of the state of the higher education systems in the five Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP): Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. The project was undertaken by an African international expert in the field of higher education studies and was fully sponsored and supported by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). The report offers a historical overview of the development of higher education in PALOP from colonial times to the present. The main objective of this baseline
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Subject Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781920677527
1920677526