A history of higher education in Kenya. The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based national development, and to provide guides to understanding. Reviews the history of higher education in Kenya and details the emergence of private universities, most of them with a Christian religious orientation, as major players in the provision of tertiary-level education. In association with Partnership for Higher Education in Africa; Kenya: EAEP

This is the result of a study carried out on the activities of the UN in Kenya since independence in 1963. The study's main objective was to establish the role played by the UN in Kenya's development history. The study focused on both the ideas and practices, traceable to the UN, that have in one way or the other informed Kenya's development performance. The study looked at five thematic areas: socio-economic opportunities, agriculture, social security, environmental sustainability and governance. In all of these, it emerged that the UN has played a significant role in Kenya's development performance, and that in the last four decades, partnership between Kenya and the UN has borne fruit in both ideas and actual development. The contributions of the UN in Kenya's Development has mainly been registered in Health, Agriculture, the environment, governance, as well as security and peace building. Some of these developments have been regional in character.

This paper explores an area of tertiary education that is currently understudied the extent and nature of differentiation and articulation in African tertiary education systems. The overall finding of the study is that a binary system is dominant, characterized by universities and polytechnics as distinct types of institutions. Differentiation is clearly evident in Africa, though mostly horizontal as opposed to vertical. Articulation, on the other hand, seems to be in its infancy, as some universities, in their admission requirements, do not recognize polytechnic qualifications, and mobility between similar institution types is rare. National policy, market forces, institutional reforms, industry, and regional initiatives drive differentiation. Resource constraints, isomorphism, governance and funding structures, and the absence of debate over size and shape act as inhibitors. Demand for access appears to be the only driver for articulation, while national policies, internal governance structures, and industry/labor market inhibit growth."

Against the Odds is a Machiavellian study of the machinations of three senior politicians in quite different developing countries who adroitly played the tough political game in ways that reduced poverty. The three - former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, and Chief Minister Digvijay Singh in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh - had scarcely heard of one another, and never communicated. And yet they used a broadly similar repertoire of political devices - persuasion, distractions, bargaining, stealth and pressure - to pursue broadly similar goals. They demonstrated two crucial things: poverty reduction is politically feasible, even in the teeth of daunting economic and political constraints; and it is politically beneficial to those who achieve it, since it enhances their popularity, legitimacy and influence. If leaders in other developing countries who are naturally preoccupied with their own political interests recognise these things, then serious efforts to reduce poverty will become more common elsewhere. This book is, unusually, the work of three well-known political scientists from Brazil, Kenya and Britain - each of whom specialises in one of the three countries that are analysed. After extensive field research, they engaged in detailed comparative discussions that impart greater coherence to Against the Odds, especially its conclusions.

Ce document explore un domaine de l education tertiaire actuellement a l etude: L etendue et la nature de la differenciation et de l articulation des systemes de l education tertiaire en Afrique. Le resultat global de cette etude indique qu il existe un systeme binaire dominant caracterise par le fait que les universites et les centres polytechniques representent des institutions distinctes. Cette differenciation apparait clairement Afrique bien que principalement horizontale et non verticale. D autre part, l articulation des systemes semble en etre a ses premiers pas. Certaines universites ne reconnaissent pas les qualifications polytechniques dans leur processus d admission et la mobilite entre les differents types d institutions similaires sont rares. Les politiques nationales, les forces du marche, les reformes institutionnelles, l industrie et les initiatives regionales sont a la source de cette differentiation. Le manque de ressources, l isomorphie, les structures de bonne gouvernance et de financement, ainsi que l absence de debat sur la taille et la forme sont autant de facteurs inhibiteurs. Seule la demande parait etre le moteur de l articulation, alors que les politiques nationales, les structures de gouvernance interne et les marches de l industrie et de l emploi semblent au contraire atrophier sa croissance."