ADEA: Creating an African Higher Education and Research Space

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) has published a concept note authored by its Working Group on Higher Education, titled "Creating an African Higher Education and Research Space." In the document, RISE is cited as an example of regional centers of excellence built from existing institutions: "A different concept in creating Regional Centres of Excellence is to network existing institutions. For example, the Carnegie Corporation of New York is promoting high quality graduate training in Africa through a programme known as the Regional Initiative for Science and Education (RISE), which was launched in 2007 and which makes use of African universities of proven excellence in specific disciplines as training nodes in a network..." To read the full concept note, click here.