Publications
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Understanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives
(2021)
Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of ...
The Artistry of Bheki Mseleku
(2020)
Bheki Mseleku is widely regarded as one of the most gifted, technically accomplished and emotionally expressive jazz musicians to have emerged from South Africa. His individualistic and eclectic sound draws on American, ...
Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South
(2017)
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality ...
Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How
(2017)
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income ...
The Future of Scholarly Publishing
(2017)
The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of academic publishing as profit ...
Student Politics in Africa: Representation and Activism
(2016)
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most ...
North-South Knowledge Networks: Towards Equitable Collaboration Between Academics, Donors and Universities
(2016)
Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have ...
The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa
(2018)
Young scientists are a powerful resource for change and sustainable development, as they drive innovation and knowledge creation. However, comparable findings on young scientists in various countries, especially in Africa ...
Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education
(2015)
This volume brings together excellent scholarship and innovative policy discussion to demonstrate the essential role of higher education in the development of Africa and of the world at large. Based on deep knowledge of ...
Boundaries of the Educational Imagination
(2016)
The educational imagination is the capacity to think critically beyond our located, daily experiences of education. It breaks away from the immediacy of personal understanding by placing education within wider, deeper and ...