An Insight into Southern Africa Development Community Protocol on Education and Training’s Article 8: A Systematic Review
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Article 8, Education and Training, Insight, Protocol, Southern Africa Development CommunityAbstract
Though the Southern African member states’ higher education shares communal historical circumstances, they have profound discrepancies in their structures and operations. This has brought many questions to the Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) pursuit to address these variations. It is in this context that this discussion centres on gaining insights into the SADC protocol on education and training’s policies with specific reference to Article 8. The scoping of the literature was grounded in a systematic policy analysis approach. Purposive and snowballing sampling procedures were used to select the sources (57) from different bibliographic databases: Scopus, Web of Science, DHTE, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and JSTOR. This, approach was to interrogate the rationale of the SADC protocol on education and training, and cooperation in policy and procedures for education and training within the SADC bloc. From the discussion, it was acknowledged that the member states’ higher education systems had different structures and operations. It is in this context that the protocol on education and training through its article 8 has come up with instruments, and mechanisms to facilitate the harmonisation of the bloc’s diverse higher education system. This has the potential to enhance the cooperation between higher education institutions within the bloc and even beyond. The researchers recommend the adoption of good practices from the different models to foster international cooperation in higher education.
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