The HERANA Gateway forms part of the Center for Higher Education Transformation’s (CHET) Higher Education Research and Advocacy 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:

1. A ‘pull’ strategy that will pull information from selected information resources by means of a single, centralised search across all of the selected resources.
2. A ‘push’ strategy that will deliver relevant content to members and subscribers of the network via an electronic newsletter.

Participants

The following participants have already been selected for Phase 1 of the ‘pull’ component of the project:

1. ADEANET - Tunis, Tunisia
2. African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) - Cape Town, South Africa
3. Association of African Universities (AAU) - Accra, Ghana
4. Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) - Cape Town, South Africa
5. Codesria - Dakar, Senegal
6. Council on Higher Education (South Africa) - Pretoria, South Africa
7. Foundation Partnership for Higher Education in Africa - New York, USA
8. Harvard University project on African HE - Cambridge, MA, USA
9. HSRC Press (Education only) - Pretoria, South Africa
10. International Network for Higher Education in Africa (INHEA) - Boston, USA
11. Michigan State University African HE Resource Directory - Michigan, USA
12. The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) - Kampala, Uganda
13. University World News - London, UK

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.

The 'push' component of the project will comprise of a bi-annual, subject-specific newsletter produced by University World News. This specialist addition will supplement the existing fortnightly University World News Africa Edition that is currently e-mailed to subscribers.  Click here to subscribe to these newsletters.