CAPE VERDE ASSESSES UNIVERSITIES FOR THE FIRST TIME

Cape Verde universities are facing their first complete scientific and institutional assessment, undertaken by a recently created Higher Education Regulatory Agency (Agência Reguladora do Ensino Superior – ARES) to improve the quality of higher education in the island country, about 500km west of Senegal. The Cape Verdean government has been trying to raise the profile of its HE sector by investing in public universities and trying to internationalise them (1). It has work to do - only one local HE institution out of 10, the public University of Cape Verde ...


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