An Empirical Overview of Eight Flagship Universities in Africa 2001-2011
This is the second research project in which the Centre for Higher Education Transformation's Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA) project collected data on eight African 'flagship' universities.
The report describes the collecting and analysis of cross-national higher education data for the group of eight 'flagship' universities in Africa. Data include student data (enrolments and graduates), staff data (number of staff, staff qualifications, gender composition) and knowledge outputs (publications, and masters and doctoral graduates).
The report concludes with an analysis of performance which focuses on the links between high-level academic staffing resources and high-level knowledge outputs. These eight universities are described as flagship universities because each is the most prominent public university in its country, and because all of the universities have broad flagship goals built into their vision and mission statements. The dataset from this study consists primarily of data on student enrolments, graduate outputs, academic staff and knowledge outputs at the eight universities.
