Staff development in African universities : a justification and research implications for Eastern and Southern African Universities initiative and experience

Abstract

This paper situates universities at the centre of development. Relating them to other institutions of man's creation, universities are placed on the perimeter o£ a circle which also lies the business industrial - production, selling and buying institutions. Arguing that universities, as one among service institutions such as government agencies, prisons, research stations etc. by lying on the sane perimeter with business institutions the two sets of institutions thrive on and are nurtured by each other's output; that is to say the output becomes the input of the other.