Triangular Partnership in Higher Education Governance: Priming Human Qualities in Africa

A disciplined, healthy, nourished and motivated labor force is required to produce and distribute the goods and services needed for sustained human development. Leadership teams that are committed and willing with positive attitude to facilitate the process of opening up greater opportunities for every citizen are needed. The sector would require a proactive and innovative managerial and entrepreneurial team with capacities and willpower. To meet this challenge is synonymous to meeting the development challenge at large. The percept of governance of higher education has become apparent as the keys to the 21^st century and requires public understanding of the achievements. The theoretical discourse dwells on developing the framework the need for policy imperatives for guaranteeing governance of higher education. The conclusion poses questions related to: are all ideas and values of governance of higher education allowed to contend, are there laws or unwritten ‘codes’ which prevent or hinder intellectual and cultural freedom?

Within Africa, the supply of ideas of governance of higher education may be artificially deflated by particular strategies and mechanisms used by incumbents to manage entire reform processes. Conceptual possibilities may be left unrealized, or sub-optimally realized, insofar as governing elite are preoccupied with filling out those spaces of uncertainty in governance of higher education thought, discourse and action that alternative groups would occupy in the course of their own engagement. The crux of the challenge is to engage in Triangular Partnership, where the diaspora can participate in creating an intelligent and critical mass of human qualities and ensures their effective participation in the development process, putting it productive use. It is about having the ability and willingness to spot, sequence and execute human-centered development priorities and programs in the face of limited institutional capacities. The results would lead to the creation of a strong continent, active in global transactions.

Key words: governance, higher education, stakeholders, quality, standards, 

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