Reviewed by Brad Rappaport, Credential Evaluator, WES African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook, edited by Damtew Teferra and Philip G. Altbach, is remarkable for its breadth and ambition, and is useful as a reference tool for education professionals and experts on Africa. Teferra and…
By Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA Since 1994 South Africa has been overhauling its entire education system as part of a broader national reform movement aimed at overcoming the inequities and polarization caused by the now defunct…
By Kingsley Banya, Professor of Curriculum Theory and Comparative and International Education, Florida International University It is generally accepted that higher education in sub-Saharan Africa is in deep turmoil. The crisis is manifested in declining quality standards, fiscal challenges, increased student enrollments, poor faculty moral,…
David Court, World Bank A high degree of consensus exists among educational leaders and scholars in Africa about the challenges facing the development of higher education–in countries not suffering from civil turmoil. The list is easily drawn: to move from an elite to a mass…
by Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR CLICK TO READ OUR MOST RECENT PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN GHANA Ghana’s system of education has undergone several stages of restructuring over the past 25 years or so. The most dramatic change entailed phasing out the O-level and A-level system…