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Abstract        

This presentation discusses the scope of China’s and India’s engagements with Africa in the area of human resource development. In the case of China, this stretches back a long way but is particularly reviewed since 2000 when a series of triennial meetings on Africa were launched under the title of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). On the Indian side, there is also a long history, but the series of formal India Africa Forum Summits (IAFS) only goes back to 2008. The meeting discusses the contents of China’s large-scale educational cooperation with Africa, and makes some comparisons with India.

About the Speaker

Kenneth King was the Director of the Centre of African Studies and Professor of International and Comparative Education at the University of Edinburgh till September 2005. He is now Emeritus Professor in the School of Education and also School of Social and Political Studies. His research interests over the years have focused on the politics and history of international education and skills, including higher education, and skills development in both the formal and informal sectors of the economy, and on aid policy, including of China and Japan.