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Juma SHABANI Director and Representative UNESCO Bamako Cluster Office

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA: REGIONAL INITIATIVES FOR RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION. Juma SHABANI Director and Representative UNESCO Bamako Cluster Office. CONTEXTE. MDGs: 8th MDG -ODA

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Juma SHABANI Director and Representative UNESCO Bamako Cluster Office

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  1. INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA: REGIONAL INITIATIVES FOR RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION Juma SHABANI Director and Representative UNESCO Bamako Cluster Office

  2. CONTEXTE • MDGs: 8th MDG -ODA • The Lisbon Summit between the European Union and the African Union : ODA: from 0.4% in 2008 to 0.56% in 2010 and 0.7% in 2015. • The Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in November 2006 in Beijing: double its 2006 assistance to Africa by 2009 • The TICAD IV conference (Tokyo International Conference on Africa’s Development) held in May 2008 in Yokohama double its 2008 by 2012 • Cooperation with India and Turkey • G8: USD 8 billion

  3. CONTEXT The Paris Declaration • Alignement to priorities of African countries; • Poverty reduction papers • New modes of funding: Joint Assistance strategies/basket funding

  4. CONTEXT 2. Knowledge-based Economy • Rapid expansion of Knowledge (especially S&T) and ICTs and their application to development • Move from commodity based to knowledge based economies • Growing recognition of the role of Higher Education in poverty education and sustainable development: World Bank, WCHE and Donors • Knowledge Economy Index (KEI): 4 sub-indexes/pillars

  5. RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION Key for growth but need to be analyzed in synergy with components of the KEI

  6. COMMITMENT AT AFRICAN UNION LEVEL • Plan of Action, for 2nd Decade of Education in Africa; • Africa’s S&T Consolidated Plan of Action; • African Regional Plan of Action on Knowledge Economy

  7. INTERNATIONALIZATION DIMENSIONS • Research and Knowledge networks • Academic mobility • Virtual Collaboration

  8. INTERNATIONALIZATION DIMENSIONS • In 2008, the number of higher education mobile students from Sub-Saharan Africa represented 5.8% of the total enrolments on the continent. In seven African countries this figure was higher than 30%. • In 2008, five universities in South Africa (Stellenbosch, University of South Africa, Cape Town, Pretoria and Witwatersrand) were actively engaged in more than 520 international institutional agreements with higher education institutions around the world

  9. CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION • Lack of capacity (human and infrastructure) • Limited volume and high cost of bandwidth • Increasing brain drain of highly skilled professionals- Brain circulation • Lack of comparability of academic programme for mobility • Policies and Principles guiding academic and scholarly cooperation

  10. REGIONAL INITIATIVES CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa 15 AIMS- like institutes in the next 10 years to train up to 750 graduates every year.. • African University of Science and Technology : Abuja, Arusha • DAAD centres of excellence in Ghana, Tanzania, Congo, Namibia, and South Africa

  11. REGIONAL INITIATIVES NETWORKS • The NEPAD Network of Centres of Excellence in science and technology. • UNESCO chairs and UNITWIN networks which in 2009 comprised 641 chairs and 60 networks; • West African Economic and Monetary Union network of 12 centres of excellence (UEMOA, 2009); • the “Agence universitaire de la francophonie”, a global network of 693 higher education and research institutions (AUF, 2009).

  12. REGIONAL INITIATIVES DEVELOPMENT OF ICT INFRASTRUCTURE • The NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure network for Eastern and Southern Africa/ (EASSy) and the terrestrial segment • The World Digital Library • Open Educational Resources (OERs) • The Pan-African e-Network Satellite Project • iLabs

  13. THANK YOU

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