Challenges for African University Leadership.

Africa shares many challenges with other regions but also faces challenges that are particularly daunting in the region. UNESCO data show that participation in higher education in Africa is less than 10%, the lowest (as percentage of the traditional age cohort) in the world. With the recognition that highly skilled human resources are critical to economic development, governments in nearly all African countries have implemented policies to expand access—building new universities while simultaneously increasing enrollment at existing universities. These decisions are political as well as economic but with little consideration to the practical implications of this vertiginous growth. This leaves university leaderships with the obligation to confront too many problems with too few resources.
Liz Reisberg, research associate and adjunct faculty at the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, summarizes some problems in the institutional management in African universities here, in her blog . You can also visit “Inside higher Education” blogs.

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