Universities must think about improving all stages of the research cycle
This post was originally published on the ACU’s ‘The world beyond 2015 – Is higher education ready?’ campaign website on 19 November....
In one of the world’s poorest countries, should research and higher education be a priority?
I was lucky enough to spend a week in Sierra Leone at the beginning of September, and it was a...
What does ‘Capacity Building’ really mean?
Jonathan Harle is Programmes Manager (Research Capacity) at the Association of Commonwealth Universities A few weeks back, Jonathan Tanner of...
Are centres of excellence or strong networks the key to capacity building?
Most of us reading and writing (and in my case at least, indulging in some ‘thinking out loud’) on this...
Online? Free? Open access? Confusions of a West African researcher
Last week I spent a great few days in Accra with a group of early career researchers from West Africa,...