Graduate School
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Graduate School
Africa requires more solutions of its own to the many challenges it faces. The brain drain has robbed the continent of some of its brightest minds, and universities’ output of graduates and research is too low. Clearly, higher education in Africa needs a boost. Universities have a key role to play if Africa is to participate more fully in the global knowledge economy.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences launched a three-pronged initiative to reinvigorate African scholarship in aid of human development. The first initiative is a Graduate School, which has been established to grow and sustain world-class postgraduate programmes and coordinate relevant research in Africa.
The School is linked to the African Doctoral Academy, which has been set up to build the capacity of postgraduate students from Africa to study problems related to the continent’s development more efficiently.
The Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) is a collaborative network created by Stellenbosch University and other leading African universities.