The President, Association of African Universities (AAU) and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, has joined other educational administrators to support quality assurance practice in tertiary institutions across Africa.
Brainstorming on the progress in quality assurance in African higher education at the 6th International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, held in Bujumbura, Burundi, Prof. Oyewole and other stakeholders noted that the quality of African higher education remained under severe pressure.
The conference stressed the need for quality assurance agencies in Africa to become more acceptable as the number of national quality assurance agencies rose from mere six in 2006 to 23 today, while new initiatives were also being launched to promote further developments.
The conference, which was cohosted by the African branch of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi-Africa) and the African Quality Assurance Network (AfriQAN) and co-funded by the European Union, drew 150 participants to Bujumbura, and the discussions bordered on improving the quality of African degrees and the need to embrace quality assurance as part and parcel of modern higher education.
Stakeholders agreed that an official conference statement should be published within the next few weeks, urging African countries and institutions without quality assurance agencies to establish one as a matter of priority. It was also recommended that a Pan-African Quality Assurance and Accreditation Framework be instituted.
The president, who was delighted at the increase in awareness of quality assurance in higher institutions in Africa, requested political support from across the countries in the interest of development.
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