Post-2015 European support to African HE taking shape

From 2015, the European Union’s new Pan-African Programme will be used to expand and extend the coverage of its Tuning Africa project and a new, linked initiative, to more broadly support quality assurance and accreditation in Africa.

The latter has been conceived to support the development of a harmonised quality assurance and accreditation system in Africa.

It aims to nurture institutional cultures of quality, and support the implementation of the Pan-African Quality Assurance Framework.

This was one of the subjects of discussion at the 6th International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa, held from 15-19 September in Bujumbura, Burundi. 

The EU will also more broadly support the development of capacity among quality assurance and accreditation bodies – a type of support that almost all involved parties agree represents one of the most urgent needs in African academia.

The underlying aim is to maintain the current thrust and momentum in pan-African quality assurance developments. 

The activities will partly build on the results of a study exploring a Pan-African ...