Juniper Publishers Annals of Social Sciences and Management studies

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Introduction The European Bologna Process is the most historic higher education reform of the 20th with wide ranging global ambitions and implications. It has been described as a unique model of systemic integration that “has not been achieved anywhere else, even in some federal nations such as the United States where higher education remains highly state or province bound”[1]. Zgaga [2] reports that the goal of the “external dimension” of the Bologna Process is not only to make the European Higher Education Area [3] attractive enough to the rest of the world in order to draw in more of the best foreign students and scholars, but also to boost the quality of higher education within Europe itself, as a way of making universities more effective. The report points out that such an appeal is important within the present-day knowledge-based economy, which the world’s richest nation...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Introduction dynamics of complex systems into their analyses. These approaches diverge from the classic, deterministic methods that have dominated the social sciences since the 1960s. An exemplar of these new models is Effectuation [1]. which emphasizes the resources an entrepreneur has, and builds on those step by step, until a unique outcome comes into focus. Such outcomes are not predictable but may be far beyond what was originally expected. Another exemplar is computational complexity science; all the models affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute [2,3]. These include NK Landscapes [4]. Complex Adaptive Systems [5]. Genetic Algorithms and other systems [6]. which have helped reveal the interdependence of agents in simulated environments. A more recent example is Imagineering, a book in press by which examines a special emergent state called Collective Creativity, in whic...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Introduction The ultimate objective is to examine the roles and priorities of the International Development Agencies or organisations in education and research to African countries. And the research question is how good, or important such supports given to African governments, projects the growth of African continent? The essence of this study is to review the challenges faced by Africa Democratic Governments in a short change of staggering education and research delivery policies and systems, hence, confounding the development of specific educational and research policies. This is to establish scholarship challenges at the advance stage of nation building where access to scholarship or government sponsorship at national level is poorly managed by delivery. Human Resource Management Troubles in Education Sector Teaching staff absenteeism is due to low pay, the brain drains of q...