This report assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on degree-granting tertiary institutions. A main finding is that structured national-level quality assurance processes in African higher education are a very recent phenomenon and that most countries face major capacity constrains. Only about a third of them have established structured national quality assurance mechanism, often only as recently as during the last ten years. Activities differ in their scope and rigor, ranging from simple licensing of institutions by the minister...

Ce rapport rend compte de l etat et de la pratique de l amelioration de l assurance qualite (AQ) en Afrique subsaharienne avec un focus particulier sur les etablissements de troisieme cycle qui decernent des diplomes universitaires. L un des resultats principal est que les processus structures nationaux d'assurance-qualite de l enseignement superieur africain sont des phenomenes tres recents et que bon nombre de pays font face a des contraintes majeures de moyens. Un tiers seulement desdits pays sont dotes de mecanismes nationaux d assurance-qualite etablis et structures, souvent aussi...