Converging Models of University Development: Ghana and East Africa

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Title:	Converging Models of University Development: Ghana and East Africa
Authors:	Southall, Roger J. Kaufert, Joseph M.
Year:	1974
Periodical:	Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:	8
Issue:	3
Pages:	607-628
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Ghana East Africa
Subjects:	higher education Education and Oral Traditions
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/483716
Abstract:	Purpose is to draw together into a comparative framework disparate themes relating to university development in Ghana and East Africa. The initial phase of studies into this area now seems to be over. As far as Ghana is concerned, the crisis of relations between the Nkrumah Government and the University of Ghana focused attention heavily on the problem of academic autonomy. In East Africa, the launching of a federal university and the sharing of resources between three colleges in an atmosphere of financial and interterritorial crisis, ensured that the problem of development planning predominated in the literature. However, no attempt has been made to analyse these different experiences from a broader comparative perspective. The authors' intention is to provide this broader framework, and to do this they adopt a mode of analysis, which surveying the development in both areas up till 1970 (the year the federal University of East Africa dissolved), suggests that the Ghanaian and East African universities are converging upon a common pattern of Internal organization and regime relationships. Ref., French summary.