February 20, 2009
Africa's New Crisis: a Dearth of Professors
As universities expand too quickly for struggling doctoral programs to keep pace, international partnerships offer help
Rafiki Yohana's transition from student to lecturer was difficult and abrupt. After graduating from the University of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, with a degree in linguistics, she was quickly hired as a teaching assistant and soon found herself standing in front of hundreds of students in introductory courses.
Her classes were so large that some of her students
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