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Roles of universities and the African context

  • 1. Centre for Higher Education Trust
  • 2. University of Oslo

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Chapter 6 is an edited version of ‘Chapter 1: The Roles of Universities in the African Context’, originally published in Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education (see Cloete & Maassen 2015). The chapter traces how African universities have been grappling with the Castellian functions by situating them in the historical context in which African universities were established and steered.

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Published by African Minds.

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