Waves of Educational Model Production: The Case of Higher Education Institutionalization in Malawi, 1964–2004

Holland, Dana G.

doi:10.1086/651139

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“…Weak colonial-era investments in education were followed by independenceera fears that investments in higher education would disproportionately advantage challengers to the new political elite. This situation initially worked against the prioritization of investments in higher education in Malawi upon independence (Holland 2010). But, as independent Malawi's leader Dr Hastings Banda consolidated power in the 1960s, and his country emerged as a strategic Cold War ally in southern Africa to the United Kingdom and the United States, university projects sponsored by the latter countries were initiated and new opportunities for higher education became available.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Further expansion of the Malawian higher education system were cut short in the late 1970s by the global energy crisis, recession, and subsequent cuts to public sector financing and higher education investment during the structural adjustment of the 1980s (Holland 2010). Furthermore, stagnation and decline remained the norm for Malawian higher education and research through the 1990s and into the early 2000s.…”

Section: Malawimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Enrolment in higher education are a fraction of the average for African countries (Teferra 2014;Bloom et al 2006). Meanwhile, the percentage of university faculty that held a Ph.D. was in decline, from 34 % of University of Malawi staff members in 1997 to only 26 % in 2006 (Holland 2010), and university funding for research was almost non-existent (Teferra and Altbach 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Experiences and perceptions of South–South and North–South scientific collaboration of mathematicians, physicists and chemists from five southern African universities

2016

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Faced with limited resources, scientists from around the world enter into collaborations to join their resources to conduct research. Like everywhere else, international co-publishing in southern African countries is increasingly on the rise. The aim of this study was to document and analyse the level of scientific productivity, collaboration patterns, scientists' experiences and attitudes towards South-South and South-North collaboration. We performed 105 interviews with scientists based at five southern African Universities, namely; University of Malawi-Chancellor College, National University of Science and Technology, the University of Botswana, the University of Zambia, and the University of Zimbabwe. We also traced 192 scientists from the various departments at these universities that had jointly published 623 scientific papers in the field of basic sciences in the period 1995-2014 in Web of Science journals. Our results show that in the majority of the cases funding from the North contributed substantially to increased scientific productivity, and international co-authorship. The results also show that collaboration with southern scientists is equally valued as that with northern scientists, but for different reasons. We conclude that supporting international and national collaboration which includes increased scientific mobility, strong scientific groups and networks, are key factors for capacity building of research in southern African Universities.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%