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urn:uuid:d57fa3c7-9b76-4d14-ae90-5720f5389c64 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d57fa3c7-9b76-4d14-ae90-5720f5389c64 15 9781920355739 06 10.47622/9781920355807 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Universities and Economic Development in Africa 1 A01 Nico Cloete 2 A01 21 0000-0002-2984-814X Tracy Bailey 3 A01 21 0000-0002-3337-8152 Pundy Pillay 4 A01 Ian Bunting 5 A01 21 0000-0003-4275-0865 Peter Maassen 01 eng 00 188 03 10 SOC008010 03 00 <p>Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a development model and the role of higher education in development, at both national and institutional levels. There is, however, an increasing awareness, particularly at government level, of the importance of universities in the global context of the knowledge economy. 2. Research production at the eight African universities is not strong enough to enable them to build on their traditional undergraduate teaching roles and make a sustained contribution to development via new knowledge production. A number of universities have manageable student-staff ratios and adequately qualifi ed staff, but inadequate funds for staff to engage in research. In addition, the incentive regimes do not support knowledge production. 3. In none of the countries in the sample is there a coordinated effort between government, external stakeholders and the university to systematically strengthen the contribution that the university can make to development. While at each of the universities there are exemplary development projects that connect strongly to external stakeholders and strengthen the academic core, the challenge is how to increase the number of these projects. The project on which this report is based forms part of a larger study on Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa, undertaken by the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA). HERANA is coordinated by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa.</p> 04 00 Tables, figures and boxes Acknowledgements Project group Acronyms and abbreviations PART 1: Introduction 1.1 The relationship between higher education and development 1.2 The focus of prior research 1.3 Project focus and methodology 1.4 Analytical starting points for the study 1.5 The structure of this book PART 2: Synthesis of the key findings 2 Universities and economic development: Evidence of a pact? 2.1 The role of knowledge and universities in development 3 The academic core of eight African universities 3.1 Methodology 3.2 The academic core data 3.3 The strength of and changes in the academic core 3.4 Disjunctures between capacity and productivity 4 Coordination and connectedness 4.1 Coordination and implementation of knowledge policies 4.2 University connectedness to external stakeholders 4.3 The connectedness of development activities to the academic core PART 3: Key findings from the eight African case studies 5 Botswana/University of Botswana 6 Ghana/University of Ghana 7 Kenya/University of Nairobi 8 Mauritius/University of Mauritius 100 9 Mozambique/Eduardo Mondlane University 10 South Africa/Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 11 Tanzania/University of Dar es Salaam 12 Uganda/Makerere University PART 4: Conclusions and implications Pact needed on ‘engine for development’ role for universities Strengthening the academic core – incentives are key Coordination and connectedness to development List of sources Appendix A: A higher education and development profile of the countries Appendix B: List of interviewees Appendix C: Indicators of pact, coordination and implementation Appendix D: Problems in collecting academic core data Appendix E: Academic core indicators and ratings Appendix F: Academic core rating descriptions 20 00 Open Access African Minds 01 African Minds Cape Town, South Africa 04 01 20110411 13 15 9781920355739 09 African Minds 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.africanminds.co.za/universities-and-economic-development-in-africa-key-findings/ 99 01 09 African Minds 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.africanminds.co.za/10.47622/9781920355807.pdf 99 01