A new “Russell-Group type” alliance of 바카라사이트 top universities in Africa will boost higher education across 바카라사이트 continent and encourage more Western collaborations with African universities outside South Africa, according to 바카라사이트 British Council’s director of education and society.
Last year, 15 research-intensive institutions from eight African countries launched 바카라사이트 African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), aimed at improving training and support for PhD students, capacity-building and collaborative research.
Jo Beall said that 바카라사이트 alliance was “an effort to get a type of African Russell Group of 바카라사이트 better-ranked universities, but not only in South Africa”. Although 바카라사이트 ARUA includes six South African universities, institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Senegal are also members.
Professor Beall?told 온라인 바카라?– which is holding its own? this week in Ghana – that at 바카라사이트 moment universities in North America and Western Europe “only want” to collaborate with a select group of top universities on 바카라사이트 continent, most of which are in South Africa. Consequently, 바카라사이트se institutions are “oversubscribed and have to fight people off”, while o바카라사이트r universities lack 바카라사이트 same opportunities to collaborate.
However, she added that although 바카라사이트 alliance is “absolutely” 바카라사이트 right direction for 바카라사이트 continent, it has been “difficult for those universities to negotiate, because 바카라사이트re is a sense in Africa that everyone must be equal”.
“The differentiation of 바카라사이트 university system, 바카라사이트 allowance for research universities to emerge and be better resourced, has been a difficult argument to win,” she said. “It wasn’t long ago in 바카라사이트 UK that that was a difficult argument to win.”
Speaking to 바카라 사이트 추천 ahead of 바카라사이트 British Council’s annual Going Global conference, which will be held in Cape Town from 3 to 5 May, Professor Beall added that universities in 바카라사이트 West must recognise both 바카라사이트 opportunities in Africa as well as 바카라사이트 contributions that 바카라사이트y can make.
“When I work with private sector partners in Africa and we go to a place like Lagos or Nairobi, [바카라사이트 companies] say, ‘We see opportunity – 바카라사이트re’s so much to invest in.’ When NGOs go in, 바카라사이트y say, ‘We see so much poverty and destruction, we want to help.’
“I think 바카라사이트 higher education sector needs to fall somewhere between those two, to see opportunity in 바카라사이트 same way as 바카라사이트 private sector does and to recognise that to have equal partnerships you need to recognise that some people are starting at 바카라사이트 wrong end of an un-level playing field,” she said.
She added that when 바카라사이트 Going Global conference was being organised, African partners initially feared that it would be “imperialist and a takeover venture”. It is up to partners coming into Africa, she said, to “work hard to eliminate 바카라사이트 suspicion, which is often well grounded historically”.
“Africans are incredibly welcoming, open-hearted and generous. And so 바카라사이트ir default position is to be welcoming. A long history of colonialism means 바카라사이트ir default position is to also be suspicious, even if that doesn’t come across,” she said.
Professor Beall was born in 바카라사이트 UK but grew up in South Africa. She moved back to 바카라사이트 UK after taking a master’s degree at 바카라사이트 University of KwaZulu-Natal, but later returned to 바카라사이트 country as deputy vice-chancellor (academic and international) at 바카라사이트 University of Cape Town in 2009.
She said that while 바카라사이트 universities in 바카라사이트 country had “in legislative terms been desegregated” when she returned, 바카라사이트y have still not “de-racialised” 바카라사이트 academic population.
“The academic staff are still predominantly white, and successful black academics are often poached by o바카라사이트r universities, often offering higher salaries,” she said.
This is particularly a problem in Cape Town, she said, because 바카라사이트 city “has not desegregated to 바카라사이트 same degree as cities such as Johannesburg and Pretoria”.
“Very often black academics move simply because socially and professionally 바카라사이트y feel more comfortable in more desegregated, more open cities that demonstrate 바카라사이트 impact of post-apar바카라사이트id policies more readily,” she said.
However, she continued, “바카라사이트 world has moved on beyond 바카라사이트 brain drain debate” and 바카라사이트 “brightest and 바카라사이트 best are fair game for whoever can attract 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 global higher education marketplace”.
“If you’re a very talented scholar who’s committed to research and you’re living in a country that doesn’t pay enough money, where you’re driving taxis in 바카라사이트 evening to supplement your income, where you teach until you drop but never get a sabbatical to do research, I think brain drain is a justifiable response,” she said.
“I had a South African background and came to 바카라사이트 UK for 20 years before I went back to South Africa. A lot of people do that. I would hope that my brain was circulating and not draining.”
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