African flagship universities

Online performance indicator data that enables universities to better assess their performance relative to their own institutional targets and to the performance of their peers across the continent. This data visualisation tool is also of use to higher education researchers, analysts, policy-makers and other decision-makers seeking a more detailed, empirically-based picture of African higher education.
FEATURES

• Open data collected by the CHET HERANA project
• No access or subscription fees
• Data cleaned and verified
• Data across 17 performance indicators
• Comparisons across institutions
• Graphs generated on the fly
• Data downloadable as Excel spreadsheets
• Glossary of terms specific to each graph created
• Commenting and error reporting

High level knowledge production data

at 4 African universities

Data analyses on the inputs and outputs of 4 African universities. The sources of the academic staff and student enrolment and graduate data are:

• Universities of Ghana and Makerere: data collected by CHET as part of the Herana 2 project.
• Universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand: (a) SA higher education management information system (HEMIS) data and (b) Herana 2 data.

The data cover the academic years 2008/09 to 2010/11 for Ghana and Makerere and 2008-2010 for Cape Town and Witwatersrand.
Profiles Universities of Four Universities.pdf