International Collaboration for Capacity Development in Higher Education Leadership and Management: the Uganda-Finland Initiative

Abstract

Changes in higher education leadership and management in sub-Saharan Africa have been epitomised by public sector reforms sanctioned by the World Bank since the beginning of the 1990s. Recently, emerging forces redefining higher education have entailed country-specific development cooperation instruments in countries such as Finland, Norway, Austria and The Netherlands. The overriding emphasis is on the role of higher education institutions in the socio-economic transformation of developing countries, partly realisable through robust higher education leadership. However, sustainable academic and professional knowledge bases in the form of non-degree, masters and doctoral programmes to build such leadership and management capacity are elusive. Drawing on the Uganda-Finland capacity development initiative, a stakeholder analysis was conducted through document reviews. The findings and conclusions illuminate the complementary roles of stakeholders and the necessity of integrating professional career pathways into masters and doctoral higher education leadership and management programmes implemented through international collaboration.Keywords: higher education leadership, development cooperation, capacity development Les changements dans la direction et la gestion de l'enseignement supéri-eur en Afrique sub-saharienne ont été illustrés par des réformes du secteur public sanctionnées par la Banque Mondiale depuis le début des années about the authors: ronald

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