African higher education: Challenges for the 21st century

Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-50

  Teferra, Damtew ^a   Altbach, Philip G ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic freedom; Access; Africa; Brain drain; Funding and finance; Gender; Language; Private higher education; Student acivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843106738     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HIGH.0000009822.49980.30     Document Type: Article

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