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The role of leaders in building research cultures in sub-Saharan African universities: A six-nation study (2022)
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Existing research attributes the problem of weak research productivity of academics in African universities primarily to institutional resource poverty and inadequate research skills. However, there has been little attention to research cultures and... Read More about The role of leaders in building research cultures in sub-Saharan African universities: A six-nation study.

Internally displaced persons and COVID-19: a wake-up call for and African solutions to African problems – the case of Zimbabwe (2021)
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In this paper we engage with the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) residing in two informal settlements in Zimbabwe, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on an ongoing collaborative, interdisciplinary and impact-oriente... Read More about Internally displaced persons and COVID-19: a wake-up call for and African solutions to African problems – the case of Zimbabwe.

Repositioning of Africa in knowledge production: shaking off historical stigmas - introduction (2021)
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Africa is recognised as the cradle of humankind with a proven record of creativity and innovation as evidenced by its great empires and kingdoms. It is thus an enigma that currently Africa contributes only 2% to global knowledge production, a situati... Read More about Repositioning of Africa in knowledge production: shaking off historical stigmas - introduction.

What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators (2021)
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The importance of diaspora and transnational knowledge production, innovation, and development is of growing interest, particularly in the developing world. The phenomenal increase in high human capital migration from poor to rich countries has histo... Read More about What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators.

Evaluation of a quality assurance framework for promoting quality research, innovation and development in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe (2021)
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In the spirit of quality assurance, this paper presents a self-evaluation and peer review of the external quality assurance framework for research implemented by the national quality assurance agency for Zimbabwe. Documentary analysis and semi-struct... Read More about Evaluation of a quality assurance framework for promoting quality research, innovation and development in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe.

Exploring the Internationalization of Zimbabwe’s Higher Education Institutions Through a Decolonial Lens: Postcolonial Continuities and Disruptions (2020)
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Looking through the history of higher education in Zimbabwe, we argue that the concept of internationalisation of higher education is not new to Zimbabwe. Understandings, manifestations and processes of the phenomenon over time are examined to reveal... Read More about Exploring the Internationalization of Zimbabwe’s Higher Education Institutions Through a Decolonial Lens: Postcolonial Continuities and Disruptions.

Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
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International conventions acknowledge the right of refugees and of disabled people to access quality inclusive education. Both groups struggle to assert this right, particularly in the Global South, where educational access may be hindered by system... Read More about Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Internationalisation of Higher Education and National Development: The Case of Zimbabwe (2019)
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The discourse of the internationalisation of higher education continues to grow in influence. Whilst the bulk of the IHE literature has been Northern-focused and dominated, there was an African strand a decade or so ago that has sought to understand... Read More about Internationalisation of Higher Education and National Development: The Case of Zimbabwe.

Leading and sustaining Zimbabwe's private schools: matching vision with economic reality (2019)
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The political, economic and social challenges in Zimbabwe are well documented. Public schools have been damaged by a shortage of resources, and by a brain drain of teachers. This has led many parents to seek private education for their children but... Read More about Leading and sustaining Zimbabwe's private schools: matching vision with economic reality.

On becoming a skilled migrant: towards habitus transformation through higher education (2018)
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Research on the labour market experiences of highly skilled migrants has revealed the crippling employability challenges they face in the UK workplace resulting from the devaluation of their homeland qualifications and experiences. Studies on highly... Read More about On becoming a skilled migrant: towards habitus transformation through higher education.

Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges (2017)
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While existing research has shown the importance of the three interrelated domains of the wider policy, the school and home/community environments in the development of quality education for learners, this literature does not fully capture the experi... Read More about Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges.

Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
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In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilit... Read More about Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

The EAP competencies in a group case study project as revealed by a task analysis (2015)
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In EAP in the UK, preparing students for real academic assignments in higher education is a central focus. As assessed group project assignments are becoming increasingly popular in UK universities, this study investigates the demands of a first year... Read More about The EAP competencies in a group case study project as revealed by a task analysis.

Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England (2015)
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The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, i... Read More about Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England.

A study of Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language listening anxiety,listening strategy use and academic listening performance (2015)
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The present study examined foreign language (FL) listening anxiety and listening strategy use in relation to the FL listening comprehension performance of 1702 undergraduate EFL learners from 5 universities in China. The findings were: (1) more than... Read More about A study of Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language listening anxiety,listening strategy use and academic listening performance.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
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Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.