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American Overseas Research Centers Program
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Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The American Overseas Research Centers Program provides grants to overseas research centers that are consortia of U.S. institutions of higher education to enable the centers to promote postgraduate research, exchanges, and area studies. Eligible applicants are those consortia of U.S. institutions of higher education centers that: (1) Receive more…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Area Studies, Nonprofit Organizations
International Collaboration and Research Capacity Building: Learning from the EdQual Experience
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Barrett, Angeline M.; Crossley, Michael; Dachi, Hillary A. – Comparative Education, 2011
Research capacity building and its impact on policy and practice are increasingly highlighted in the literature on international research partnerships. In the field of education and development, it is recognised that, in the past, international research collaborations have tended to be dominated by the agenda of Northern partners. Partly in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, International Cooperation, Development, Consortia
E-Content Capacity Development--RUFORUM Network Experiences
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Dhlamini, Nodumo – Distance Education, 2011
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established in 2004, is a network of 25 universities at the postgraduate level in 15 countries in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. RUFORUM's mission is to strengthen the capacity of universities to foster innovations responsive to demands of smallholder farmers…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Consortia
The Impact of the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
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Murimba, Saul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) is fast emerging as a globally recognized initiative in the area of the monitoring and evaluation of educational quality, and the results of its research and training have not only been used within the member countries, but elsewhere too. SACMEQ has had a presence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Consortia
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ): Mission, Approach and Projects
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Murimba, Saul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
The quality of education is an issue of growing concern in many countries today, and there is increasing reliance on the employment of large-scale, scientific survey research techniques to study the quality issues, the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of education, and the formulation of policy interventions designed to improve quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Consortia, Regional Programs
The Communiversity of Developing Countries.
Ndyajunwoha, Gaston Z. – 1978
The "communiversity" concept was developed as a model for non-university, post-secondary, technical education on the African continent. The prototypes of the communiversity are associate-degree-granting institutions, such as technical colleges, university branches, and community colleges. Like these institutions, the communiversity's…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Programs, College Role, Community Colleges