North-South Knowledge Networks Towards Equitable Collaboration Between : Academics, Donors and Universities /

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 changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and o...

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Other Authors: Nossum, Jorun (Editor), Halvorsen, Tor (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bergen [Norway] : UIB Global, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. The role and impact of funding agencies on higher education and research for development / G{uml}oran Hyd{acute}en
  • 2. ‘The first philosophers were astronomers' : curiosity and innovation in higher education policy / John Higgins
  • 3. Research training, international collaboration, and the agencies of Ugandan scientists in Uganda / Eren Zink
  • 4. The status of research at three Ugandan universities / A.B.K Kasozi
  • 5. Undoing the effects of neoliberal reform : the experience of Uganda's Makerere Institute of Social Research / Mahmood Mamdani
  • 6. South-North collaboration and service enhancements at Makerere and Bergen University libraries / Maria G.N. Musoke and Ane Land{ostrok}y
  • 7. North-South research collaborations and their impact on capacity building : a southern perspective / Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma
  • 8. Death on campus : is academic freedom possible for students and academics at the University of Malawi? / Joe Mlenga
  • 9. The crisis of higher education in Sudan with special reference to the University of Khartoum, 1956-2014 / Fadwa Taha and Anders Bj{ostrok}rkelo
  • 10. Knowledge generation through joint research : what can North and South learn from each other? / Ishtiaq Jamil and Sk Tawfique M Haque
  • 11. Into the great wide open : trends and tendencies in university collaboration for development / Jorun Nossum
  • 12. International co-operation and the democratisation of knowledge / Tor Halvorsen.