Register for IAP's event here and join the conversation https://www.eventbrite.com/e/predatory-academic-practices-regional-perspectives-and-learning-tickets-175567275447 The Asia regional event is on 7th December.

According to Times Higher Education in their most recent release of global university ranking, only 3 African universities made it to top 300 in the world, first at 183 and the others in the 251 - 300 bracket. This is not a good representation of a continent of 1.3 billion predominantly young people.

Interacademy Partnership (IAP) carried out a global survey which suggests that African contributes a high percentage to total global predatory academic practices (PAP) which is blamed on many factors ranging from innocent involvement to intentional fraud.

Whatever the reason may be, we think that it is inimical to the development of higher education in Africa and this has numerous ripple implications.

So OAAD decided to get involved in the battle against this monster pursuing the following objectives to:

i) innovatively raise awareness of PAP among researchers within OAAD’s network in ways that are realistic to the African context,

ii) engage relevant authorities in African universities to ascertain their understanding of how PAP may affect their university ranking, and

iii) enhance awareness within OAAD’s network, the wider academic community and funding agencies on spotting and dissuading PAP. To achieve these goals, OAAD intends to run hybrid workshops and symposiums, conduct direct interviews, develop online contents, and create new organizational unit to perpetuate the awareness of PAP. It is expected that this approach will lead to multidimensional and measurable outcomes which, we believe, would have long-term impact of raising the ranking of African researchers and institutions of higher learning.

Learn more about predatory academic practices here https://www.interacademies.org/project/predatorypublishing

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