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The people of Madagascar often tend to consider their homeland as a world apart, unrelated to the rest of Africa, out of outright abstraction of common geographical, historical and cultural elements, especially common challenges. Similarly, Madagascar has time and again been excluded from the scope of research and studies about the continent; until relatively recent times, documents sparingly alluded to the state of higher education in the “forgotten” giant African island. This chapter supplements the information deficit regarding higher education challenges in Madagascar from the perspective of a native scholar with insider knowledge of the system, and in response to the global impetus to internationalise knowledge and information.
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Randriamahenintsoa, E. (2013). Challenges and Opportunities of Higher Education Funding Policies and Programs in Madagascar. In: Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345783_7
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