UNIVERSITIES, EMPLOYABILITY and INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT: REPOSITIONING HIGHER EDUCATION in GHANA, KENYA, NIGERIA and SOUTH AFRICA Acknowledgements
UNIVERSITIES, EMPLOYABILITY AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT: REPOSITIONING HIGHER EDUCATION IN GHANA, KENYA, NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA Acknowledgements This report was authored by Tristan McCowan, Melanie Walker, Sam Fongwa, Ibrahim Oanda, Daniel Sifuna, Segun Adedeji, Stephen Oyebade, Eric Daniel Ananga, Vincent Adzahlie- Mensah and Emmanuel Tamanja. It is the final report of the Universities, Employability and Inclusive Development project (2013–16), commissioned by the British Council. The research was led by the UCL Institute of Education, London, in partnership with Kenyatta University, Kenya; University of Education, Winneba, Ghana; University of the Free State, South Africa; and University of Ibadan, Nigeria. We are grateful to Carole Rakodi for her comments on an earlier draft. Contents Chapter 1 – Introduction 2 Chapter 2 – Universities and employability in South Africa: equity in opportunities and outcomes 15 Chapter 3 – Divergent narratives on graduate employability in Kenya: dysfunctional institutions or dysfunctional labour markets? 39 Chapter 4 – In pursuit of graduate employability and inclusive development in Nigeria: realities and expectations 57 Chapter 5 – Higher education and employability in Ghana 77 Chapter 6 – Enabling conditions 91 Chapter 7 – Conclusion 101 Universities, employability and inclusive development 1 I want to do something that’s going to help me change something in this country, the social ills, whether it be poverty, you know, health… Political science student, South Africa Chapter 1 – Introduction Tristan McCowan Higher education is now acknowledged Millennium Development Goals, as being pivotal for development at showing the increasing interest in this The promise and challenge all levels. Its role in fostering high level of education after a period of of higher education in Africa level research and technological relative neglect.
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