The HERANA Gateway forms part of the Center for Higher Education Transformation’s (CHET) Higher Education Research and Advocacy Expertise Network in Africa (HERANA) project.
The main aim of this programme is to develop a network of higher education expertise in Africa. In particular, the HERANA Gateway is being developed to distribute research-based information to relevant experts and decision-makers. The gateway is the central point through which the dissemination of information will take place.
The HERANA gateway will achieve this by integrating the ‘fragmented’ outputs from research projects and data/information sources relevant to African higher education across the globe. A dual strategy is being deployed to disseminate relevant, integrated information:
- A ‘pull’ strategy that will pull information from selected information resources by means of a single, centralised search across all of the selected resources.
- A ‘push’ strategy that will deliver relevant content to members and subscribers of the network via an electronic newsletter on a regular basis, as well as via HERANA participants’ websites.
Participants
The following participants have already been selected for Phase 1 of the ‘pull’ component of the project:
- African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO)
- Center for Higher Education Transformation (CHET)
- Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
- University World News
The project awaits confirmation from an additional three Phase 1 participants. Phase 2 participants will be considered towards the end of 2008. Should your organisation be interested in making its data sources available to the HERANA, please complete the form on the right-hand-side of this page.
Africa World News will be producing a quarterly, subject-specific email newsletters as part of the project’s content ‘push’ strategy. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter. Additionally, HERANA Gateway invites interested organisations to publish relevant news via the gateway. News will appear on the HERANA gateway site as well as on the sites of selected participants.
Should your organisation wish to provide news on African higher education via the HERANA gateway, please complete the form on the right-hand-side of this page.