 Perspective Chapter: Higher Education Problems in AngolaAdilia Mendonca Mendonca da Costa e Silva A chapter in Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 2 from IntechOpen Abstract: Higher education has extreme importance in the countries' economical, political, and social development. Since it has a fundamental role in a country's development construction in all its aspects and provides political and strategical support that a country requires for its development. Higher education tends to improve human resources capacity that is integrated with the several activity sectors of a certain country or region, adding to business fabric consolidation and technology innovation. And this makes investment in the education sector, especially in higher education, crucial. This paper's objective is to search for the main problems faced by educational institutions. To this end, based on the qualitative and descriptive method in which, through observation and interviews, information was collected, which after being analyzed with the help of NVivo, allowed to present a set of failures such as lack of investment, lack of management knowledge and planning on the part of managers of educational institutions, and lack of support for publication, among others. Keywords: higher education; quality of education; investment in education; higher education institution management; Angola higher education system (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ito:pchaps:292954 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.109376 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from IntechOpen |
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