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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2004): Journal of Higher Education in Africa

7 - Raising Too Many Expectations? Comments on the World Bank Report Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education

Paul Hoebink & Arnold van der Zanden
https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v2i3.1669
Paul Hoebink
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-7012
Arnold van der Zanden

Journal of Higher Education in Africa, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2004): Journal of Higher Education in Africa

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Raising Societies communicating knowledge Guidelines for Future Lending
Paul Hoebink, & Arnold van der Zanden. (2004). 7 - Raising Too Many Expectations? Comments on the World Bank Report Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education: Paul Hoebink & Arnold van der Zanden. Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v2i3.1669
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  1. Court, D., 2003 January, ‘The New Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy of Africa’. Norrag News.
  2. Gibbons, M., 2003 March, Presentation at a Conference of the Association of African Universities (AAU-Corevip), Mauritius. For more information on the association, though not the paper, see http://www.aau.org/corevip/2003/ and http://www.acu.ac.uk/cgi-bin/pressrelease.pl?PRID=24.
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Author Biographies

Paul Hoebink

Paul Hoebink is Associate Professor at the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen at
the Catholic University Nijmegen. He is also Co-Chair of the Joint Committee of the South AfricaNetherlands Research Programme on Alternative Development (SANPAD). Address queries to him at
the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104,
6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands; email: P.Hoebink@maw.ru.nl.

Arnold van der Zanden

Arnold van der Zanden is higher education expert with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Address queries to him at Arnold van der Zanden, First Secretary Education, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Road #90, House #49, Gulshan 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh; email: arnold-vander.zanden@minbuza.nl.
The observations presented in this article are personal observations of the author which do not necessarily reflect the views of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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