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In the contemporary world, higher education has assumed unprecedented importance internationally and nationally due to its role in educating people for the new global economy and the centrality of the knowledge economy to the 21st century development (Altbach, 2004).
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Kariwo, M., Gounko, T., Nungu, M. (2014). Philosophies in Higher Education. In: A Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Systems. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-533-5_1
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