Open AccessHigher Education and Funding Strategies for Knowledge Generation of Releance: A Comparative Study between Mozambique and Brazil
Author(s) -
Pedro Uetela
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of sociology of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.213
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2014-3575
DOI - 10.17583/rise.2019.3539
Subject(s) - higher education , incentive , independence (probability theory) , depreciation (economics) , competition (biology) , economic growth , ranking (information retrieval) , political science , politics , economics , human capital , ecology , statistics , mathematics , capital formation , machine learning , financial capital , computer science , law , biology , microeconomics
Research has shown a strong correlation between the longevity of the African continent and the geneses of higher education. However, most of the African countries including Mozambique still lag behind with regards to higher education placement in the international ranking and competition. Funding strategies for both knowledge generation and research incentives are considerably seen as key factors that enhance university performance and success. For most of African countries the insufficiency of both political and economic independence has led to a sharp marginalization of higher education and reliance on external donors. Drawing from the above captioned evidence, this paper aims at investigating the development process of Mozambican higher education. It argues that experiences from Brazil concerning maximization of research funding agencies for strengthening higher education can be contextualized as a means of revitalizing universities after decades of depreciation.Key words: Higher Education. Funding. Brazil. Mozambique