Democratizing Higher Education Policy Making in Francophone and Anglophone Africa: The Cases of Senegal and Ghana

• In Event: Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: Global Perspectives on Higher Education

Abstract

Higher education policymaking in Africa has historically been heavily influence by external actors. Using extensive document analysis and interviews data of key actors in Senegal and Ghana, this research suggests that policies on access and quality are increasingly been shaped by power interplay between national stakeholders. Findings of this study suggest that national ownership of higher education policies in both countries is in large part due to the changing political and socioeconomic situations. The analysis of data collected has been informed by neo-pluralism, postcolonial theory and agency theory.

Author

• Christian Noumi, University of Toronto - OISE