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Direct linkHoward, Barbara; Ilyashenko, Natalia; Jacobs, Lynette – Perspectives in Education, 2023
Scholars from three universities in three different parts of the world--North America, Africa, and Eurasia--across different cultures, disciplines, and contexts, collaborated with the objective of advancing transversal skills and intercultural competences through immersing their students in international virtual teamwork. Students and lecturers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, International Cooperation
Sumari, Neema S.; Shao, Zhengfeng; Van Genderen, John L.; Musakwa, Walter; Ujoh, Fanan; Washaya, Prosper; Gumbo, Trynos – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
This paper presents an update on some of the activities that have taken place since a World Bank report; "Guidelines for Education and Training in Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Key Issues" was published and provides details on the current situation. It shows how organizations such as the African…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Private Sector
Jingura, Raphael; Kamusoko, Reckson – Quality in Higher Education, 2018
Cross-border higher education (CBHE) has taken centre stage in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). There has been increased trade in higher education services among member states of the SADC. This has necessitated regional regulatory cooperation in quality assurance and accreditation. SADC has established the Southern African Quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Guidelines, Accreditation (Institutions)
Varghese, N. V. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
International cooperation and collaborations played an important role in the economic and educational development of several countries. In the 1950s and 1960s external aid was an important modality to establish cooperation between countries, especially between developing and developed countries. Cross-border activities in higher education used to…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Institutional Research
Download full textBloe, Diasmer – Educational Testing Service, 2015
In partnership with Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, Salzburg Global Seminar hosted an international strategic dialogue of 60 thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners from institutions serving marginalized populations to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Access to Education, Student Diversity
Keats, Derek – Open Learning, 2009
Free and Open Educational Resources at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) are deeply rooted in our institutional culture, stemming from the role we played in the struggle for political freedom in South Africa. The successful development of a strategy has been influenced by this history, as well as the role of a champion in the main…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Freedom, Courseware, Organizational Change
McGrath, Simon – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The current dominant account of aid to education focuses on schooling and official development assistance and talks in terms of policy work, donor harmonisation and, increasingly, budgetary support. However, this approach is limited in a number of ways. The return of international policy interest in vocational education provides an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational History, Foreign Policy, Vocational Education
Boud, David; Dahlgren, Lars-Owe; Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt; Larsson, Staffan; Sork, Thomas J.; Walters, Shirley – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
The article reflects on the construction of a common Master's programme across four universities located on four continents, in order to explore the role of networks in international educational collaboration. The study draws on the documented processes of the principal members of the programme team. It is presented as a case study of the…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Fraser, Bill – Aspects of Educational and Training Technology Series, 1992
Reviews changing high school science curricula in South Africa, outlining two recent movements: aiming syllabi at the 85% of students who do not graduate in the sciences, and teaching basic knowledge and skills rather than specific and narrow job skills that easily become obsolete. Suggests that closer cooperation between curriculum planners,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Descriptions, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Fleisch, Brahm – 1993
The United States influenced the origins, elaboration, and implementation of the politics of knowledge between social science and policy in the South African National Bureau for Educational and Social Research. Divided into six sections, the historical analysis of the Bureau: (1) examined the context within which the Bureau emerged, the origins of…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Planning
Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources
Tibbitts, Felisa – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
This article presents an innovative professional development project, "Facing the Past-Transforming Our Future," developed collaboratively by the Western Cape Educational Department, the Cape Town Holocaust Centre (CTHC), and the US-based teacher professional development organization Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO). "Facing the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Jews, Death, War
