Higher Education in Development – Lessons from Sub Saharan Africa Ashcroft

Higher Education in DevelopmentLessons from Sub Saharan Africa\nAuthor(s): Kate Ashcroft, Philip Rayner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781617355417, 978-1617355417\nSynopsis\nThis book will interest readers learning about or developing strategies for improving higher education systems and institutions in developing countries.\n\nIt provides an insight into sub-Saharan African higher education systems and sets out the ways that they are developing and changing. It explores the dilemmas inherent in a context of scarce resources with increasing and urgent demands for a more professionalized workforce and expert services. It examines the factors inhibiting development such as HIV/AIDS, gender issues, historical conflicts, cultural attitudes inimical to innovation, the challenges created by poor infrastructure, and the history of colonialism and authoritarianism and their legacy of centralized control an.