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Controlling of incoming internet traffic is very challenging in today’s computer networks because network administrators have limited control over incoming traffic. Prioritizing incoming traffic in public institutions such as universities …
Higher Education is key to shifting African economies from resource to knowledge based economies. African universities’ leadership and management need to reposition their universities to play this role. Despite various trainings on leaders…
The traditional management theory and training approaches that focused on business failure and labor ineptness have swamped up management excellence today. This warped approach to personnel management in organizations, which is reactive an…
Agriculture is one of the important sectors in sub-Saharan Africa and improvement of labour force is essential for the development of the sector. The objective of this study was to establish current and emerging trends in Agricultural Labo…
Many curricula of university academic programs in sub-Saharan African do not provide for adequate field-based practical training. In part this is blamed on the limited public funding of programs and activities in Higher Education Instituti…
This is an invited paper presented at the Fifth African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Biennial Conference held 17-21 October 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa during a special session organised by CGIAR-SROs-NARIs and Universities to for…
Three graduate students served as interns at the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Secretariat in Kampala, Uganda. The Secretariat is the coordinating unit for 66 African universities in 26 African …
Discourse on the development context in Africa has gradually shifted to focus on youth as central to escalating prosperity and delivering sustainable socio-economic transformation and development on the continent. Investing in youth in Afr…
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), one of the public universities in Kenya, is largely involved in training at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Basic Sciences, Engineering, Health, Human Resource, and Ag…
I was born in the later years of the 20th century and when I was growing up in the rural areas of the western parts of Kenya, I would often hear people talking about great universities in the region then. Names like the University of Nairo…
Uganda is the third largest pig producing country in Africa. However the pig industry in Uganda is currently threatened by African swine fever virus (ASFV) disease, which is a fatal, contagious viral haemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs, …
The attainment of sustainable food security in Africa, as elsewhere, requires the efforts of a cadre of innovative well-trained agriculture specialists who are familiar with the constraints and perspectives of national priority needs. In l…
Limited capacities in managing research, training and outreach programmes are among the notable challenges preventing Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and research institutions in Africa from effectively contributing towards the contin…
Rodents are some of the most serious mammalian pests the world over. However, their economic and social impact is not quantified in Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, while some of the zoonotic diseases attributed to rodents such as Lassa fever…
The increased reports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) of emerging and zoonotic diseases, such as influenza, Ebola virus infections, Rift Valley fever, pneumonic plague, leptospirosis, anthrax, tuberculosis, trypanosomiasis, and neglected tropi…
Science for development is the goal of many EU-Africa advanced training partnerships but few promote North-South-South relations and attempt to bridge science and management as explicitly as the new PhD programme described here. The Tropik…
The significance of agriculture in driving Africa’s growth and development has greatly gained recognition in the recent past. African universities are expected to play a critical role in African agricultural development process because of …
This article presents the evolution of Bunda College of Agriculture into Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR). It starts with the historical background to its establishment; acquisition of land for its permanen…
The University of Juba is a premier South Sudan’s university. It was established by a legal act in 1975, and admitted its first batch of students in 1977. By 1989, it had five colleges and several hundred students when it was forced by the…
Policy, management and governance of higher education and higher education Institutions is an integral part in planning, implementation and provision of education services in the sub-sector in Africa. Historically, the roles and functions …
Increased recognition of higher education’s role in Africa’s economic transformation has led to massification of higher education in Africa. The immediate consequences of massification have been half-baked graduates due to reduction in pra…
University education and its evolution in Africa has been closely linked with economic growth. The policy changes in the late 80’s driven by World Bank / International Monetary fund (IMF) policy and scarce resources resulted in a singular …
This paper discusses the liberalisation of higher education as under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) signed by member countries of the World Trade Organisation. The impact of commercialisation of higher education sector o…
Several solar drying technologies exist in Uganda, but marred with multiple deficiencies such as inefficient conversion of trapped solar radiations into thermal energy, prolonged drying times, among others. The aim of this study was to des…
Malnutrition exists in various forms and affects all countries in the World. Despite several intiatives, the situation remains critical in sub saharan Africa. Non timber forest products (NTFP) are known to be very rich in nutrients but are…
