Hans de Wit says that "Africa, a region that in terms of numbers of academics with a foreign degree, numbers of graduates with a study-abroad experience and the amount of knowledge and concepts from abroad it has imported, has probably the most internationalised higher education system in the world.
But the impact of that is not necessarily positive, and maybe first Africa has to go through a process of de-internationalisation, to liberate itself from these external influences, before it can develop its own position in the global knowledge society."
Full article (University World News, 16 September 2012, issue no 239)
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