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Evaluating doctoral programmes in African universities

September 13th, 2011

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Imelda Bates of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and colleagues report on how they developed and validated an evidence-based tool for evaluating doctoral programmes in African universities. Their process incorporated the perspectives of students, staff, the research community, and policy makers and they aim for it to be applied across different countries.

The authors say: "Our standardised evaluation process not only enabled the universities to develop and monitor strategies to address their own capacity gaps but also provided them with a mechanism for justifying, planning, commissioning, and monitoring inputs by external funders while retaining leadership of the process."

More information:
Bates I, Phillips R, Martin-Peprah R, Kibiki G, Gaye O, et al. (2011) Assessing and Strengthening African Universities' Capacity for Doctoral Programmes. PLoS Med 8(9): e1001068. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001068

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