WEAVING SUCCESS: VOICES OF CHANGE IN
AFRICAN NIGHER EDUCATION
by
MEGAN LINDOW
The project, published by the Institute for International Education, creatively documents the 10-year history of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, a $440 million investment and collaboration by seven major U.S. foundations to strengthen and support universities in nine African countries.
It includes comments from HERS-SA on the Carnegie Corporation of New York programme to fund delegates to the HERS-SA ACADEMY.
It's available as a free download under a creative commons license, and you can get it by following the links on the IIE website. Here's the press release and link to the download
http://www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/News-and-Events/Press-Center/Press-Releases/2011/2011-11-02-PHEA-Book-Weaving-Success
One of the joys of higher ed is that it spans pretty much everything, from innovative uses of technology in classrooms, to the broader issues of national development. The stories in the book include a journey into the Madagascan rainforest with researchers; a profile of a Ugandan inventor whose countless innovations have improved the lives of school girls, farmers, refugees and rural health practitioners; and the story of a young woman who escaped the shackles of rural poverty and gender inequality to become a lawyer -- to name but a few.
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