Hindi serial mata ki chowki title song. The Place of the African University in the Emerging Global Higher Education Space The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the fourth session of its initiative designed to bring together the deans of faculties of social sciences and humanities of universities in Africa. As part of its strategy to support the African university, CODESRIA has created this forum which it desires should occur regularly, as it enables the managers of the higher education system in general and the deans of faculties of social sciences and humanities in particular to: 1. Reflect on their experiences; 2. Exchange views on common challenges confronting them; 3. Learn from one another; and 4.

Draw on one another’s problem-solving resources in ways which could help to generate new comparative insights into African higher education in a period of transition. Each conference would lead to the production of a publication that will serve both as an important record of. And statement on. The state of the social sciences and humanities in Africa. CODESRIA, through its programmes, has been in the forefront of the effort within Africa to contribute to the strengthening and renewal of the social sciences and humanities, through various multidisciplinary interventions. Proceeding on the premise that no society can ever hope to overcome the development challenges facing it if it does not invest in the social sciences and humanities, CODESRIA is taking its programmatic efforts one step further by launching the annual conference of deans of faculties of social sciences and humanities of African universities. The initiative is coming at a time when the academic and administrative leadership of African universities is undergoing multiple and multifaceted changes, including the departure into retirement of many of the pioneers of the post-independence period and the arrival of leadership of the second and third generation of scholars.

The conference will serve the purpose of encouraging a focused scholarly reflection on the state of the social sciences and humanities in Africa by those who occupy frontline positions of academic and administrative leadership in the university system. It will also serve the supplementary purpose of networking the deans across the geographical, linguistic and gender boundaries that tend to keep them apart. For the 2011 session to be held on the sidelines of the 13 th CODESRIA General Assembly, the focus will be on ' The Place of the African University in the Emerging Global Higher Education Space.' The context of globalization is also that of the building of a global higher education space, whose various milestones, among others, were laid successively by the Lisbon Convention elaborated by the Council of Europe and UNESCO (1997), the Sorbonne Declaration (1998), the Bologna Declaration (1999) and the Berlin Summit of 2003. One should also stress the important role of UNESCO in the changes taking place globally as shown for instance by the six regional conferences on higher education (Cartagena of the Indies, Macau, Dakar, New Delhi, Bucharest and Cairo) and the World Conferences of 1998 and 2009. The new geography that is taking shape in the North imposes, one way or another, challenges to the world of higher education and social science research in Africa. The Bologna Process, which was aimed at creating a European higher education and research space, integrating the parameter of mobility and competitiveness, ultimately went beyond its original place to impose itself, through the LMD or 3-5-8 system, at the African university level at a particular time in its history.