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Higher Education Quality Assurance In Subsaharan Africa: Status, Challenges, Opportunities, And Promising Practices (World Bank,New
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This report assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance in SubSaharan Africa, focusing on degreegranting tertiary institutions. A main finding is that structured nationallevel quality assurance processes in African higher education are a very recent phenomenon and that most countries face major capacity constrains. Only about a third of them have established structured national quality assurance mechanism, often only as recently as during the last ten years. Activities differ in their scope and rigor, ranging from simple licensing of institutions by the minister responsible for higher education, to comprehensive systemwide program accreditation and ranking of institutions. Within institutions of higher learning, self assessment and academic audits are gradually being adopted to supplement traditional quality assurance methods. However, knowledge about and experience with selfassessments are limited. The main challenges to quality assurance system in Africa are cost and human capacity requirements. For countries with large tertiary systems, the report recommends institutional, rather than program accreditation as a costeffective option. However, where tertiary systems are small and underdeveloped, a less formal selfassessment for each institution may be necessary until the capacity could be strengthened to support a more formal nation quality assurance agency in the long run.
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