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Exploring doctoral education in Commonwealth Africa

The Project

This project aims to:

  • Write about recent developments in African doctoral education
  • Prepare case-studies of innovative professional doctoral (EdD) programmes, assessing their relevance for the African HE sector
  • Design a doctoral studies programme for the Faculty of Education UDS, Ghana

This project is in collaboration with Atia Apusigah (University of Development Studies, Ghana).

More information: www.afox.ox.ac.uk/

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Project Details

Start date: January 2018
End date: December 2018
Funder: Africa Oxford (AfOx) intiative
Theme: Policy, Economy and Society