Africa's New Crisis: A Dearth of Professors

Autor/in	Lindow, Megan
Titel	Africa's New Crisis: A Dearth of Professors
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 24, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; African Studies; Teacher Supply and Demand; Teacher Shortage; Doctoral Degrees; Doctoral Programs; Educational Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Lehrerbedarf; Lehrermangel; Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad; Doktorandenprogramm; Bildungsentwicklung
Abstract	With many professors approaching retirement. a shortage of qualified academics has reached crisis proportions at a number of African universities. The shortfall is a consequence of decades of neglect of African higher education, as donors and governments concentrated limited resources on primary and secondary schools, and young scholars who manage to get advanced degrees flee the domestic poverty and decrepitude of academic life for business, government, and jobs overseas. Some African universities, along with a handful of foreign colleges and foundations, are now pooling their resources to develop new ways to turn out more Ph.D.'s in Africa. While they have met with some success, the process is long and intensive, and more participants are needed. Programs like the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals encourage benefactors to view universities as critical to Africa's economic and social development, particularly in such key areas as agriculture and engineering. Increasingly, educators are looking for ways to tap the continent's resources, through regional collaborations and partnerships bolstered by help from overseas. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10