The Education Systems of Africa
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This research handbook provides meaningful coverage on current trends in the dynamic education systems of Africa. It presents the main findings on current issues in the education systems from different African countries. Specifically, it examines education policies and what can be done differently by African nations to strengthen these policies. The objective is to highlight African nations' capacity to address issues of social justice to generate ideas that can help translate the increasing strengths of the continent into achieving sustainable development.

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This research handbook provides meaningful coverage on current trends in the dynamic education systems of Africa. It presents the main findings on current issues in the education systems from different African countries. Specifically, it examines education policies and what can be done differently by African nations to strengthen these policies. The objective is to highlight African nations' capacity to address issues of social justice to generate ideas that can help translate the increasing strengths of the continent into achieving sustainable development.

Autorenporträt
Dr. K. S. Adeyemo is a policy researcher with a particular focus on issues of quality assurance in higher education regionalization in the Global South. These two strands enable him to contribute to the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on issues of international and comparative higher education over the last 10 years. He has used his interdisciplinary training in different fields of management and education to inform research in higher education policy and quality assurance. His recent book on higher education policy in the Philippines and ASEAN integration is published by Brill NV, Leiden, the Netherlands. This book deals with the globalization, internationalization, and integration of higher education at the regional level. He has published more than 15 scientific papers in peerreviewed journals/book chapters and scholarly books, given more than 13 presentations at the national and international level, and served in the funding committee of the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa and QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards (USA) as a judge. Similarly, he has written technical reports for British Council-DAAD and National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences BRICS Think Tank. Dr. Adeyemo is a higher education researcher of international repute. Dr. Adeyemo is the assistant editor for the leading Journal of International Students, a top-20 ranked academic journal in Higher Education (h5-median: 37, Scopus CiteScore:1.35), and #2 most-cited journal in international higher education according to GoogleScholar metrics. Dr. Adeyemo is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in educational management from Cavite State University, Philippines, and did a postdoc at the University of Pretoria. He was a visiting scholar at Indiana University, USA, and Aarhus University, Denmark.