아프리카ㆍ중동

The purpose of this study is to explore ways to pursue quality improvement and expansion of the higher education sector in Mozambique through an analysis of higher education and also to propose to South Korea measures for contributing and cooperating in the promotion of higher education in Mozambique. We analyzed South Korea's assistance capabilities and the future direction of aid packages from existing research data that shows that Korea has the comparative advantage in the higher education sector. Korea’s development aid policy has focused on building educational infrastructure or educational hardware, but we verified the need to promote cooperation in the development of educational software. Then we presented problems of higher education in Mozambique considering the current situation of education. In the early 1990s the Mozambican government privatized the higher education sector and made it possible to establish private institutions. So, in the 2000s public and private universities were established increasingly without any blueprint for higher education. In this process several problems developed, such as graduates with low academic achievement, the imbalances between the Human and Social Sciences and Technical and Engineering Sciences, lack of infrastructure, inefficient educational administration, etc. Even though the Mozambican government, especially in 2010, announced a new policy on higher education requiring training of university lecturers, evaluation, financial audits, etc., the higher educational situation so far has not been significantly improved. In this study, through an analysis of Higher Education in Mozambique, we propose cooperation in distance higher education and e-learning in order to contribute to the development of higher education in Mozambique. Mozambique’s higher education should be approached both by improving the quality of education and also by the expansion of education; therefore, distance learning and e-learning can be viable alternatives. For South Korea, it will be possible to enhance the effectiveness of aid, and for Mozambique to pursue the improvement of higher education through cooperation projects which can meet the demand for the educational development of Mozambique.