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The Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) is a non-governmental organisation located in South Africa that mobilises transdisciplinary skills for specific research and capacity development projects by tapping available expertise in the national and international higher education sector. It offers a variety of documents, data and projects related to higher education and doctoral education in Africa.
CHET's research areas include differentiation, HE & democracy, HE & development, governance, knowledge production, performance indicators, post-secondary education, and university engagement. It publishes the the and the .
Tasks: Research, Information, Network
Target: Managements, Deans, Academic Staff,
Country: Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius
HERANA - Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa
The research component of HERANA is investigating the complex relationships between higher education and development in the African context, with a specific focus on economic and democratic development. HERANA is currently in its third phase. focused on the relationship between higher education and development – economic and democratic – in Africa. consisted of the enhancement of information capacity-building for evidence-based policy-making and management, the development of a better understanding of the national higher education commissions and their roles in policy coordination, and a study of the incentive/rewards of African academics. The current focuses on the institutionalisation of six years of capacity building in performance data collection within the eight HERANA network universities (, , , , , , , , ), combined with the promotion of developing institution-specific policies to contribute to the institutions’ knowledge-producing capabilities. This will form part of a larger set of activities to develop a group of research-intensive flagship universities in Africa.
