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Music Scholarship at Universities and the Relevance of the Industrial Training Scheme in Nigeria 大学音乐奖学金和尼日利亚工业培训计划的相关性

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2023-03-09 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v3i03.3627

Emurobome Idolor

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Expanding Higher Education for the Public Good: Ghanaian Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Quality Dimension 为公共利益扩大高等教育:加纳利益相关者对质量维度的看法

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2727

C. Adu‐Yeboah

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Theorising the Relationship of Higher Education and the Public Good in Africa 非洲高等教育与公共利益关系的理论化

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2724

E. Unterhalter, S. Allais

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The Other Side of the Story: The Costs of Being a Public Good Academic 故事的另一面:成为一名公益学者的成本

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2729

M. Ndaba

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Place, Public Good and Higher Education in South Africa 南非的地方、公共利益和高等教育

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2730

Palesa Molebatsi

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Higher Education Finance as a Public Good in Kenya 肯尼亚高等教育财政作为一种公共产品

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2726

M. Oketch

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Researching the Public Good: Reflections on Experiences of Doing Research on Higher Education and he Public Good in South Africa 公共利益研究:对南非高等教育与公共利益研究经验的思考

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2732

S. Ngcwangu

{"title":"Researching the Public Good: Reflections on Experiences of Doing Research on Higher Education and he Public Good in South Africa","authors":"S. Ngcwangu","doi":"10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2732","url":null,"abstract":" This article discusses the experience of doing research on higher education and the public good in South Africa within a bigger project titled ‘Higher Education, Inequalities and the Public Good: Perspectives from Four African Countries’. Qualitative data was collected through key informant interviews by a team of eight researchers who concentrated on specific groups of stakeholders as per the themes of the research. The aim of the interviews was to understand the perceptions of stakeholders both within and outside the university system on the public good role of university education in South Africa. This article focuses on three key issues: locating the research in the context of South Africa’s democratic transition, methodological challenges and pitfalls, tensions, and missing questions/silences. We were doing our research in the aftermath of the student protests of 2015 and 2016, and many of the stakeholders we interviewed were actively involved in making sense of the issues that the students raised. The research team formulated the ‘DNA’ framework for analysing qualitative data from the stakeholders, which refers to the descriptive, normative and analytic aspects of the data that pointed to a unique way in which we could frame our findings. By reflecting on the research process and our positionality in it, the paper contributes to the general field of qualitative research studies, bringing in the dynamics of conducting research in large-scale cross-national projects. ","PeriodicalId":358387,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Higher Education in Africa","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121571017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Nigerian University System, Corruption and Erosion of the Public Good 尼日利亚大学制度、腐败和对公共利益的侵蚀

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2728

Jibrin Ibrahim

{"title":"The Nigerian University System, Corruption and Erosion of the Public Good","authors":"Jibrin Ibrahim","doi":"10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2728","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the nature, causes and implications of the decline of the public good within Nigeria’s university system over the past three decades. In that period, there has been a significant shortfall in the finances of the university system from federal and state governments, creating the material basis for its inability to recruit, retain and manage quality academic and non-academic staff. Essentially, it highlights how the self-interest of academics, expressed through their powerful union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has engaged in a struggle with government to improve the remuneration of academics rather than the quality of academic services. At the same time, corruption has sapped the system and led to significant levels of exploitation of students, in general, and the sexual harassment of female students. The public good within the university system is rooted in the constitutional provision that directs governments to provide quality and free education at all levels. But governments have failed in this mission, and families have had to pay for their children’s quality education. This outcome has created massive inequality, with only the wealthy able to ensure quality education for their children, usually abroad. This has weakened the commitment of those in authority to push for the return of quality education at the national level. The result is that the Nigerian state appears to have provoked a class struggle in which poorly educated youth and the lumpen classes are marginalised and excluded from the ladder of social mobility. ","PeriodicalId":358387,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Higher Education in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130990393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Indicators of Higher Education and the Public Good in Africa: A Dashboard Approach 非洲高等教育和公益指标:仪表板方法

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2731

Palesa Molebatsi, T. McCowan

{"title":"Indicators of Higher Education and the Public Good in Africa: A Dashboard Approach","authors":"Palesa Molebatsi, T. McCowan","doi":"10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2731","url":null,"abstract":" Indicators and metrics have gained increasing prominence in international higher education in recent years, and global rankings have become a powerful force in shaping ideas of what the university is and should be. Yet these measures do a poor job of capturing the broad role of the institution, and particularly in recognising its actions in promoting the public good and addressing inequalities. African higher education institutions have struggled to perform well in the conventional rankings, whose indicators rely on extensive resources for high-level research. This article explores the possibilities of alternative metrics for understanding the public good contribution of universities in the context of four African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. After assessing the shortcomings of the existing indicators and metrics, and the challenges of the availability of data, it puts forward a dashboard approach as a possible new model. Dashboards have the advantage of avoiding the conflation of diverse qualities of importance and allow different profiles of an institution to be compared. The article proposes six main elements for the dashboard: solidarity with society, equitable access and deliberative space (which correspond to the intrinsic notion of public good and graduate destinations, knowledge production and community engagement (which correspond to instrumental notions). Finally, the challenges of implementing public good metrics in practice are discussed. ","PeriodicalId":358387,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Higher Education in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131684342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mapping the Literature on Higher Education and the Public Good in Africa 绘制关于非洲高等教育和公共利益的文献

Journal of Higher Education in Africa Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.57054/jhea.v20i2.2725

C. Howell

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