When Reform Triggers Reform: An Examination of the Proposed (Public) University Governance Reforms in the Rwendeire Visitation Committee Report
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2022
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Africa Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance
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Since 2000, higher education has been acknowledged as a driver of Africa’s social and economic development, an enabler of the region’s transition into a knowledge economy and an imperative for global competitiveness (Bloom et al. 2014; AUC 2015, 2016, 2018; Teferra 2016; World Bank 2000). The post-2000 ideological shift from viewing higher education as a public good rather than a luxury – after over two consecutive decades of neglect – has metamorphosed university governance from a marginal into a topical issue in the African higher education discourse. Consequently, governance of the education system, including the higher education sub-sector, is integral to the drive to revitalise higher education in Africa. It has, in some circles, been advanced as “a determinant factor in how [higher education] institutions contribute to the solution of social contradictions and development problems – or to their aggravation” (Oanda and Sall 2016: 63). It is also a driver of education quality as well as the financial sustainability of higher education institutions (World Bank 2000). The proliferation of empirical studies that attest to a strong nexus between university governance and academic excellence as well as the
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University Governance Reforms, higher education, Rwendeire
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Nabaho, L. (2022). When Reform Triggers Reform: An Examination of the Proposed (Public) University Governance Reforms in the Rwendeire Visitation Committee Report. Africa Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance, 5(1), 173-195.