Damtew Teferra

Damtew Teferra is professor of higher education and leader of the Higher Education Training and Development at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He also directs the online International Network for Higher Education based at the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College.

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June 6, 2011
Seeking and Conferring Legitimacy in Academic Citadels: The Troubling Trend
I was one of those who had been closely watching the global reaction to the establishment of the “Obiang Chair” that would provide cash to UNESCO and name a science prize after President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea for the past 30 years.
January 2, 2011
University Partnerships in Africa: Capacity Building for Both Partners
  The floodgates of university partnerships have opened and the international dimension of higher education in Africa is expanding. With the declaration of higher education as vital development tool, multilateral and bilateral regimes, foundations, and other development partners now favor the support of the sector, though still with constrained enthusiasm as the latest African Commission Report (2010) indicates.
September 1, 2010
Higher Education and Science
I recently attended the Second Science with Africa Conference jointly organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Union Commission and many others in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 23 to 25 June, 2010. More than 500 scientists, researchers, representatives of bilateral and multilateral development partners, NGOs, higher education and science and technology ministries attended from more than 50 countries around the world.

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