[AU-Harmon-AAU-QA] Conference - The Africanuniversities'adaptation to the Bologna process

Thu Jul 19 06:14:01 GMT 2007

Hi All,  

  Thank you Jane for bringing your rich experience of Latin America to this debate. It would be very relevant to Africa.

  Let me therefore make the following concrete proposal for getting specific views on the issue of harmonisation in Africa: 

  "To consider the various aspects of the Bologna Process and to see how they can be adapted to the African context with a view to enhancing harmonisation in higher education in Africa".

  If there is general agreement on this proposal among the discussants on the present elist, this could help the leaders of this discussion group to see how to move forward. 

  So let's have your views, folks!

  Goolam Mohamedbhai

  (Voici la traduction francaise de mon couriel pour les participants francophones)

  Bonjour Tous

  Merci Jane d'avoir apporter ta riche experience d'Amerique latine a cette discussion. C'est tres pertinent pour l'Afrique.

  Permettez moi alors de faire la proposition concrete suivante afin d'obtenir les points de vue sur l'aspect d'harmonisation en Afrique:

  "Considerer les differents aspects du Processus de Bologne afin de les adapter au contexte Africain pour rehausser l'harmonisation dans l'enseignment superieur en Afrique"

  S'il y a un consensus sur cette proposition parmis les participants a ce debat, alors cela pourrait aider les dirigeants de ce groupe de discussion  de decider comment aller de l'avant.

  Alors, donnez vos points de vue, chers amis!

  Goolam Mohamedbhai

JANE KNIGHT <janeknight at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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  Greetings

  I fully agree with Goolam about other aspects of the Bologna Process which would be relevant and useful to the higher education community in Africa. 

  In the last three years, there has been some very interesting initiatives in Latin America regarding the development of  an Academic Credit system which can be used by many countries in the Latin America region and complement the national credit system ( if such a system exists).  It is based on the concept of a common currency of ‘academic credits’ and is designed to facilitate transparency and clarity for the accumulation and for the transfer of credits between and among institutions and countries.  The development of SICA ( Sistema de creditos academicos) used ECTS as a model but was adapted to the context and conditions of Latin America.  A student workload model was used. 

  Secondly, the Diploma Supplement from Europe was reviewed and adapted to the context of Latin America. One of the major additions to the Latin America document was information on the quality assurance of the institution issuing the degree/certificate. 

  Drafts of both of these documents are available in Spanish.  
  The Latin America experience of developing these two instruments may be of interest to Africa as it is critical that they are ‘adapted’ to the regional context – not  just ‘adopted’ from the Bologna Process.

  With best wishes
  Jane Knight

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  Greetings

  I fully agree with Goolam about other aspects of the Bologna Process which would be relevant and useful to the higher education community in Africa. 

  In the last three years, there has been some very interesting developments in Latin America regarding the development of  an Academic Credit system which can be used by many countries in the Latin America region and complement the national credit system ( if such a system exists).  It is based on the concept of a common currency of ‘academic credits’ and is designed

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  From: au-harmon-aau-qa-bounces at elists.aau.org [mailto:au-harmon-aau-qa-bounces at elists.aau.org] On Behalf Of goolam mohamedbhai
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    Dear Sarah

    Many thanks for this information. The African Francophone universites are mainly using the Bologna Process for implementing the LMD (Licence, Masters, Doctorat) structure and some of them are aready well into it e.g Univesity of Dheikh Anta Diop in Senegal and the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso (both are represented on the conference committee). The Anglophone universities already operate (more or less) the structure as in the Bologna Process. I am not very sure about what is happening in the Lusophone universities.

    But there are many other interesting aspects of the Bologna Process which could be useful to African universities e.g the Credit Transfer System or the Diploma Supplement. I think a continental approach to see how to adapt the Bologna Process to African higher education could be very useful.

    Kind regards

    Goolam Mohamedbhai

Sarah Hoosen <sarahhoosen at tiscali.co.za> wrote:

    Hi everyone

  I came across this call for proposals to a conference on ‘The African universities’ adaptation to the Bologna process’ that is being held in the DRC this week. This highlights awareness of the developments in Europe and looking at possible ways of aligning with the Bologna process.

    Regards 

    Sarah Hoosen

    Neil Butcher and Associates 
Reg. No. CK2000/143539/23 

    Fax No:      +27 11 646 9800
Cell No:      +27 82 665 3376
Email:        sarahhoosen at tiscali.co.za   

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