Higher Educational Policies in Anglophone Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract

Higher Education is a training ground for research based professional and career future. It is a potential instrument of ensuring success of democracy and bringing social transformation in the new environment of knowledge and information technology. Theodore Schultz and Mary Backer have termed the role of higher education as transformation of human beings into human capital. Globalized economy understands the strategic importance of removing barriers. Anglophone African countries in the twenty first century face number of such challenges in the field of Higher education.