African Higher Education: Projecting the Future

Abstract

ciatura (four-year undergraduate degrees). Representing 65 percent of the 777 total demand-absorbing ones, 506 institutions report 100 percent "hourlies" (part-timers) as the composition of their teaching staff. Seventy-nine percent of the institutions offer only licenciatura, while the remaining 21 percent of institutions offer licenciatura plus some master's degrees. Few of these degrees require a costly infrastructure for laboratories or technology, and most of them are in the fields of administrative sciences, humanities, and education, or computer sciences, with aspirations of a fast immersion into the job market.