Higher Education and Research in Africa

Overview

<div>OUR GOAL: To strengthen Africa’s higher education sector through enhancing academic training, research, and retention in select countries of sub-Saharan Africa.</div> <div></div> <div>Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas with their associated goals.</div> <div> <p>Diaspora Linkages: The African academic diaspora is a powerful intellectual resource for a continent experiencing a higher education boom. New and expanding institutions require instructors, resources, and updated curricula, and this community can help fill staffing gaps, spur progressive pedagogy, and increase departmental capacity. The Diaspora Linkages initiative connects African universities with academics with the goal of strengthening training and research on the continent.</p> <p>Higher Education Policy and Research: Support for higher education policy and its implementation among African policymakers, philanthropists, and educators is essential to meeting the continent’s growing needs. Gaining such support requires evidence-based data that demonstrates how universities are contributing to socio-economic and national development. The Corporation’s investments to date have created a baseline set of data on a select number of African universities, which has been used by national and continental policymakers and a cohort of institutional planners. To advance higher education policies and practice, the Higher Education Policy and Research subprogram supports efforts to generate and disseminate data-driven research and publications on Africa’s higher education sector, and build capacity for research management. Grants aim to gather and disseminate evidence-based research and advance expertise.</p> </div>