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Capacity-Building Projects in African Higher Education: Issues of Coloniality in International Academic Collaboration
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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Madsen, Lene Møller – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article studies issues of coloniality in so-called capacity-building projects between universities in Africa and Scandinavia. Even fifty years after independence, the African higher education landscape is a product of the colonial powers and subsequent uneven power relations, as argued by a number of researchers. The uneven geography and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Policy
Innovation in TVET: UNESCO-UNEVOC Trends Mapping
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Ganter de Otero, Jan Peter – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2019
The following report presents the results of the trends mapping study on innovation in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) conducted by UNESCO-UNEVOC. The study aimed to improve the understanding on innovation in TVET among the international community, as well as to map current trends and showcase different types and experiences…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
A Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Project Developing Public Health Higher Education in Four Higher Education Institutes in Africa and Europe
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Haaranen, Ari; Saarti, Jarmo; Miettola, Juhani; Erkkilä, Arja T. – Africa Education Review, 2016
The HEI-ICI project involves cooperation between the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and three African partners. The main aim of the project, now in its fourth year, has been to develop education in health sciences and to improve the quality of teaching. The target has been to develop the skills of selected junior faculty from the Public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Partnerships in Education, Educational Development
The Digital Balance between Industrialised and Developing Countries: Futures Studies for Development
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Hietanen, Olli – E-Learning, 2006
The purpose of researching the digital balance between industrialised and developing countries was to discover how information and communication technology (ICT), content and e-services developed in Finland will work on the African continent, and vice versa. Globalisation and the associated new international division of labour and well-being…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Social Capital
IFLA General Conference, 1986. Management and Technology Division. Section: Management of Library Associations (RT). Papers.
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
Papers presented at a session on management of library associations at the 1986 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Medical Library Association: Organizational Change 1898 to Present--Illustrations from Continuing Education" (Raymond A. Palmer and M. Kent Mayfield, United States); (2)…
Descriptors: Administration, Continuing Education, Corporate Libraries, Developed Nations
Libraries and National Development (Final Report of the Third Afro-Nordic Library Conference, Finland, September 3-7 1979).
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1979
Contained in this collection of presentations from the third Afro-Nordic Library Conference are a foreword describing the objectives of the meeting and 14 papers: "From Oral Tradition to Literary Writing: The Awakening of National Awareness," by Heikki Kirkinen; "African Library Systems," by L. E. Samarasinghe; "Planning…
Descriptors: Children, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Folk Culture
Lifelong Learning & Distance Higher Education. Perspectives on Distance Education
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McIntosh, Christopher, Ed. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2005
Reflecting a common objective of ensuring quality Education for All, this book is a joint initiative of UNESCO and COL and jointly published. Lifelong Learning in Distance Higher Education brings together a diverse group of experts from many countries. The book provides a clear picture of the challenges, problems and potential of distance higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Virtual Universities, Lifelong Learning