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Even though regionalization of higher education in Africa has been underway for several years and was given a boost with the development of the African Union Strategy for the Harmonization of Higher Education Programmes (AU-HEP) in 2007, the process has been slow and faced many challenges. A key objective of higher education regionalization is to create common regional policy frameworks that facilitate mutual recognition of academic qualifications, promote student and staff mobility, ensure effective quality assurance mechanisms, create a system for the transferability of credits, and ensure the competitiveness of African regional higher education in the global knowledge system.
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Woldegiorgis, E.T., Knight, J. (2017). Achieving African Higher Education Regionalization. In: Knight, J., Woldegiorgis, E.T. (eds) Regionalization of African Higher Education. African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-956-0_13
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