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International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.

A shortage of research on the legal frameworks for higher education is evident in sub-Saharan Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa wide discrepancies in progress are observed. The reforms commonly promote more representative governance, quality assurance, and private provision. A few countries have enacted substantial changes to their legal frameworks. In other countries reforms have been noteworthy but less bold.

Citing case studies in Africa and Asia, the World Bank's Report "Accelerating Catch-Up: Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" argues that economic growth in these developing countries hinges on the human capitol fostered in secondary and tertiary education. Economic constraints and various structural and programmatic challenges threaten the ability for success in these institutions and creative solutions will be necessary to bolster growth.

This article makes case of how South Africa has been able to use its laws and policies to achieve its objectives of regulating private higher education. This happened in the context of an ascendancy of neo-liberal policies which favoured deregulation and the rolling back of the state. Through these policies the government was able to protect the public even during the global financial crisis as it had registered credible and financially sound institutions which could weather off the...

International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.

International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.

International Higher Education (IHE) publishes insightful, informed, and high-quality commentary and analysis on trends and issues of importance to higher education systems, institutions, and stakeholders around the world.

In it's report "Accelerating Catch-Up: Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa", the World Bank places education at the fore of African development priorities. This represents a shift in viewpoint from higher education as luxury to higher education as necessity. While this can be seen as progress, the report still contains gaps in data and may indicate a need for increased attention to this changing sector.

This article shares some reflections on African theology from an outside perspective. Starting from personal experiences as a German Evangelical coming to South Africa, it basically takes a look at the book African theology on the way: Current conversations, edited by Diane B. Stinton. It wants to identify ways of looking at theology which could be considered in some way or another as �especially African�. The article then compares these findings with two other books, presenting two...

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of educational intervention by health care providers on clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes patients in a Yemeni health facility.Methods: A prospective, one-group and pre-and post-test design to assess the effects of health care providers' education on clinical patient outcomes was undertaken.The study took place in Al-Noor Charity Clinic (ACC), Mukalla City, Yemen.The subjects of this study were type 2 diabetes patients who received health services at ACC...

Entrepreneurship has been found as an important driver of economic growth, productivity and social development; hence the need for entrepreneurial graduate is on the increase. Thus the purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of polytechnic students in Ghana. In the study a model was proposed and empirically tested on a sample of 228 polytechnic students in Ghana. In the model, entrepreneurial intention is taken as a function of...

The focus of this research is cultural sustainability of African Canadian heritage. Research literature informs us that engaging youth in educational programmes at the local level is fundamental to sustainability discussions. Furthermore, students must be actively engaged in their African Canadian past, present and future education. However, there has been a lack of curricula and resources of African Canadian heritage in programmes, resulting in African Canadian students being unaware of the...

in to the city center of Nairobi.I cross the railway line, which also leads through the slums on its way to Mombasa and Kampala.Once on the other side of the railway line, the environment and living conditions change.There are small dwellings that consist mostly of one bedroom, iron sheet roofs, walls made of mud, small open windows covered with curtains or cloth to keep out the dust.Along the dirt roads are lots of plastic bags and rubbish and, tiny chickens run in and out.When I am getting...

in to the city center of Nairobi.I cross the railway line, which also leads through the slums on its way to Mombasa and Kampala.Once on the other side of the railway line, the environment and living conditions change.There are small dwellings that consist mostly of one bedroom, iron sheet roofs, walls made of mud, small open windows covered with curtains or cloth to keep out the dust.Along the dirt roads are lots of plastic bags and rubbish and, tiny chickens run in and out.When I am getting...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the role of head teachers in enforcing quality assurance and standards in secondary schools in Eldoret West Distrct. Based on the findings of the study, this paper specifically examines the role of the head teachers in ensuring quality and standards in secondary schools. The study utilized the descriptive research design. The study targeted head teachers and teachers in both public and private secondary schools in Eldoret West District. To obtain...

The primary aim of the study was to uncover demographic and socio-economic details and reasons for opting for open and distance learning. Although the focus was on women learners, the study adopted a gender approach in assessing access to university education through open and distance learning in order to study both men and women. This helped to interrogate, articulate and analyse the gender construction of distance education learners and delivery of open and distance learning at the...

This article describes an innovative, rapidly effective, low cost, health promoting educational input that can strengthen social systems to support the social and emotional development of orphan children. The training project took place in a resource-poor area of rural southern Zimbabwe. The teaching was found to be culturally relevant and transferable, to the extent that several of the learners progressed to become tutors, training others to use the method in local languages. The method...

Zimbabwe is a developing third world country where unemployment is very high. The majority of Zimbabweans fall below the poverty datum line. However, Zimbabwe is rich in human and natural resources. Institutions of higher learning are producing graduates every year. The majority of the graduates are unemployed because of unavailability of jobs on the market and lack of right skills regardless of the fact that the country is rich in raw materials like minerals and land. Because of lack of...