Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

University of Johannesburg | uj · Faculty of Education

Universities explored different adaptation strategies in the course of the COVID-19pandemic. The rapid and ill-planned transition from face-to-face to online educationwas a solution that had drawbacks, particularly in resource-poor countries likeUganda. Online study by students meant limited access to facilities and little contactwith peers and lec...

The role of African higher education institutions has been embedded within the socio-economic and historical contexts of the continent. Understanding the nature of African universities, their roles in African societies, and their place in the global knowledge system demands comprehensive reflection of the historical trajectories of the sector itsel...

This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and indigenous knowledge in academic research, teaching, and learning programmes and beyond. Taking practical lessons from a range of institutions in Africa, the book argues that that local and global sciences are culturally equal and capable of synergistic complementarity and then int...

The chapter recaps some of the arguments discussed in the diverse contributions and restates the call for the consolidation of the concept of hybridity in the decolonial debates of African higher education as an alternative and inclusive future. It stresses the importance of widening the epistemological basis of African higher education within the...

Debates on decolonisation of African higher education have evolved over time framed by various socio-economic and political imperatives. The discussion has also been embedded within different historical contexts of the region and the ongoing global transformations. Thus, in order to properly understand the conception of and ongoing debates on decol...

Several studies address the notion of inclusive higher education from the perspective of access questioning who participates, where, and how in the sense of equity, raising issues of enrolment of disadvantaged groups. This chapter approaches the concept of inclusion in the Ethiopian higher education system from an epistemic access perspective. The...

The notion of decolonisation implies the existence of a territory, entity, structure, or system which has previously been colonised by exogenous forces and thus needs to be liberated. In most African countries, the discourses of decolonisation of higher education emanate from the shared experience of imposed European colonisation that perpetuated e...

This study illustrates the multidimensional, complex challenges faced by the education system in South Africa particularly and in Africa in general.

There has been a growing interest among scholars of International Relations and Comparative Public Policy on issues of policy travel since the 1990s. Even though regional higher education policies are developed within certain intergovernmental policy settings encompassing shared interests among states of regional groupings, they tend to travel acro...

The process of regionalization of higher education in Africa is not an isolated process which has developed within its own policy dynamics. International processes and other regionalization initiatives have also influenced the development of higher education regionalization in Africa. Because of historical reasons, however, the impact of European p...

Even though regionalization of higher education in Africa has been underway for several years and was given a boost with the development of the African Union Strategy for the Harmonization of Higher Education Programmes (AU-HEP) in 2007, the process has been slow and faced many challenges. A key objective of higher education regionalization is to c...

Academic mobility is one of the functional elements of regionalization within the FOPA framework discussed in Chapter 1. Academic mobility is not a new phenomenon – scholars and knowledge have been moving around the world for centuries. The fact that the concept of the universe is embedded in the term ‘university’ is evidence of the important role...

Within the framework of the functional, organizational and political approach, the political dimension is a crucial component explaining the historical and political context of regionalization processes in Africa. Political dimension, as stated by Knight (2012, p. 19), “…refers to political will and strategies that put higher education initiatives...

The issue of higher education financing in Africa has been the subject of discussion since the 1980s. Historically higher education financing has been the sole responsibility of the public sector with most of the funding coming from state governments. In the past three decades, however, the African higher education sector has witnessed a massive in...

Growth in the scope, scale and importance of higher education regionalization should not be underestimated or ignored. Africa – like Asia, Europe and Latin America – is promoting deeper cooperation among higher education bodies and institutions across the continent and focusing more attention on Pan-African and sub-regional harmonization of policie...

Europe's Bologna Process has been identified as a pioneering approach in regional cooperation with respect to the area of higher education. To address the challenges of African higher education, policymakers are recommending regional cooperation that uses the Bologna Process as a model. Based on these recommendations, the African Union Commission (...

Since the 1990s, the development in the international dimension of higher education including student/scholar mobility, regional and international research networks and initiatives have brought new opportunities for African higher education to be incorporated in the global knowledge production and circulation processes. One of the instruments of in...

This article addresses the changing role of higher education in Africa from the pre-colonial time up to the 1990s. The basic argument is, though higher education institutions are a product of socio-economic and political dynamics of the society in the course of history, these interactions have always been imperfect in Africa since universities did...

There have been various higher education policy reforms at regional level to overcome the challenges and impacts of globalization in the current knowledge based global economy. Universities have already been involved in various internationalization processes establishing both bilateral and multilateral cooperations across borders. Through various i...