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The context
• Doctoral Studies in Africa: Scope, Challenges and
Prospects in the Knowledge Society
– Expansive growth of HE in general in SSA
– Growing importance of doctoral education in particular
“What kind of PhD education for today and tomorrow?”
“Which model of doctoral studies?”
• New possibilities of networking and sharing of
knowledge and experiences through technologies
• Importance of partnership and cooperation

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Examples from practice
“I’m the Vice-chancellor for research and my university is
currently working on our institutional strategy for doctoral
education. I would be good to know how other
institutions faced this challenge.”
“As the Director of the Doctoral School of my
“I’m looking for the outcomes of the IAU university, I’m looking for advice on models and
project on the Changing Nature of Doctoral tools to help me improve supervision.”
Education.”
“We are trying to foster “I would like to set up a joint PhD-programme on
internationalisation in the area of environmental studies and need to get in touch
doctoral education at our university with representatives in charge of doctoral
and are looking for funding education at other institutions in the region.”
opportunities.”

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Our partners
Country Higher Education Institution Partnership
Angola Universidade Agostinho Neto ACUP Pilot
Benin Université des Sciences et Technologies du Benin IAU Pilot
Cameroon Université de Douala IAU Pilot
Cameroon Université de Yaoundé I ACUP Pilot
Equatorial Guinea Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial ACUP Pilot
Ethiopia Addis Ababa University ACUP
Pilot
Kenya Kenyatta University IAU Pilot
Madagascar Université d’Antananarivo ACUP Pilot
Mali Université de Bamako ACUP Pilot
Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane ACUP Pilot
Niger Université Abdou Moumouni ACUP Pilot
Nigeria University of Illorin IAU Pilot
Senegal Université Cheikh Anta Diop ACUP Pilot
Senegal Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis IAU Pilot

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What IDEA offers
• Open access to institutional and government documents
aiming at inspiring the design or improvement of
strategic management and academic policies, relating to
doctoral programmes
• Practical tools, modules, checklists, concrete examples
from university initiatives
• Opportunities for cooperation, partnership and
internationalisation

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Focus areas
• Developing and Managing a PhD
– Mission, Vision and Management issues
– Capacity Building
– Supervision
– Doctoral Education by Numbers
• Projects and Initiatives
• Higher Education Institutions
• Funding opportunities
+ Events & Bulletin Board

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Your feedback
We would like to get feedback on the portal
about:
–Information you find useful
–Information you find useless
–Information you find difficult to compile/maintain
–Information you miss
–Information you are not willing to share

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Join us!
Come and join us in ROOM C
for a hands-on presentation of the portal!
Contact information:
Dr. Hilligje van’t Land: h.vantland@iau-aiu.net
Nadja Gmelch: nadja@acup.cat