Solution to Africa's HE problem lies beyond campus gates

Abstract

The responsibility for producing an effective higher education system that can support Africa's development should rest primarily with national governments and societies rather than the universities themselves, according to Dr Birgit Schreiber, the senior associate for Universities South Africa's Higher Education Leadership and Management, or HELM, South Africa, and a member of the Africa Centre for Transregional Research, University of Freiburg, Germany.