ACADEMICS REQUEST QUALITY OVER QUANTITY IN HE IN GUINEA-BISSAU
June 26th, 2023
National and international academics warned Guinea-Bissau that the expansion of its higher education must not sacrifice quality and relevance, so academics and students are better able to meet the needs of one of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries.
Guinea-Bissau is “one of the most coup-prone and politically unstable countries in the world”, according to the World Bank, which noted it had USD2,200 gross domestic income per head in 2022. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=GW
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