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

Tue Jul 24 09:09:01 GMT 2007

Dear Colleagues,

I do entirely agree with Rispa. The starting point is our own countries. We need to have both sound quality assurances mechanisms and a credible Credit Accumulation and Trasfer (CAT) that worksin our  individual countries before engaging in regional integration. A successfull reform must be something that is home brewed and grown, and not something imposed from outside just like a fashion. 

Lets work very hard in our individual countries inspired by Bologna, Arusha, etc so that we can successfully introduce reforms in our Higehr Education Subsystems.

Cheers

Arlindo Chilundo
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  From: rispa odongo 
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  Greetings colleagues,

  I agree that there many aspects of the Bologna process that may be relevant to Africa in terms of quality assurance. As you mention, credit transfer is one of them. However, individual countries must first develope clear guidelines of credit transfer between institutions in their countries. Universities and other higher education institutions must be part and parcel in the drafting of the guidelines. This should then be followed by a continental agreement on the guidelines, the African Union being the obvious convenor. This will be very useful for recognotion and equation of qualifications, especially when there are may academics from Africa in diaspora and constantly moving from country to counry looking for employment.

  Yhank you all and God Bless you in your quest for quality higher education for the African Continent. 

  Rispa A. Odongo
  Commission for Higher Education,
  KENYA

  JANE KNIGHT <janeknight at sympatico.ca> wrote:
    My apologies.  The message below was not complete.  I am resending it.

    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
    Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:22 AM
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    Subject: Re: [AU-Harmon-AAU-QA] Conference - The African universities'adaptation to the Bologna process

    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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