Partnerships
University partnerships for development: how they work, what they built, how to judge them, and the history of aid to higher education.
- A Short History of US Development Aid to Higher Education, 1949–2025
From the land-grant idea and Truman's Point Four to USAID's founding in 1961, Title XII, university networks of the 1990s and 2010s, and the 2025 dismantling of USAID: a dated history of how the United States funded universities abroad.
- Agricultural University Partnerships: From Land-Grant Colleges Abroad to Innovation Labs
Why agriculture has been the core of university partnerships for development: land-grant colleges abroad, the Green Revolution and CGIAR, Title XII research consortia, Feed the Future Innovation Labs, extension, and what made some partnerships last.
- Aligning Business Education With Employers' Needs: How University Partnerships Work
How university partnerships align business and management education with private-sector needs in developing countries: needs assessments, curriculum co-design, advisory boards, internships and faculty development, what the evidence shows, and how programmes such as USAID's former HED funded them, with a 2007 Egyptian example.
- How to Evaluate a University Partnership: Criteria, Indicators and Common Traps
A practical framework for judging an international university partnership: the six OECD evaluation criteria, results chains, useful indicators for teaching, research and institutional change, data sources, and the mistakes that make evaluations misleading.
- Research Collaboration Across Borders: Fair Partnerships Between Universities
How international research partnerships between universities in high- and low-income countries are set up and kept fair: agreements, authorship, data and samples, ethics approval in both countries, the Nagoya Protocol, the TRUST Code and the Cape Town Statement.
- University Partnerships for Development: What Decades of Cross-Border Collaboration Built
How partnerships between universities in rich and developing countries work, the main funding models from Title XII to Erasmus+, documented examples from India and Ethiopia, what they tended to achieve and why many faded when funding stopped.
- Women in Higher Education: Access, Science and Leadership in Developing Countries
Where women stand in tertiary education worldwide according to UNESCO data: enrolment, the gaps that remain in sub-Saharan Africa, women in STEM and research, university leadership, and what partnership programmes have done to close the gaps.
