November 25, 2008
African Universities Face a Looming Shortage of Ph.D.'s
African universities are rapidly losing their faculty members to retirement and industry, and their capacity to educate new Ph.D. holders is eroding, raising deep concerns about the continent's ability to produce new generations of academics, educators said at a conference on Monday.
The recruitment and retention of new faculty members has emerged as a top priority for institutions across the continent, as they have scrambled to hire enough faculty members to keep pace with
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