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II.
DIFFERENTIATION
Africa has many universities mushrooming each day, offering the same programs. This calls for
creation of research-intensive universities, which are very expensive to run. Universities should
graduate to offering specialized training. There are two notable sets of funding universities:
a) Universities focusing on producing professionals; and
b) Universities focusing on research (masters and PhDs) training.
The question that arises then is what should be the rational criteria for deciding which university
should be research intensive?
a) The selection can be a political choice, done by the government with a focus on research
outputs.
b) The selection can also be based on research productivity and the number of maste