If you have students and professors who would like to establish computer linkages with AERN, send us their names and E-Mail addresses. Let us know if you are interested in offering a research symposium for your region of the nation. The pressures of heavy teaching assignments to meet the burgeoning undergraduate enrollments have taken a toll on research activity, especially amongst the younger faculty members who will form the core of the next generation of researchers. In some nations, government agencies continue to be suspicious of the work of university researchers, particularly in the social sciences. Policy decisions are often made without reference to relevant research.
African scholars pursue their investigations.
Contacts with colleagues in other universities and in other nations are often impossible due to high transportation costs. Journals are expensive and many libraries lack the resources to support current studies of changing conditions. The research capacity of universities in the young nations of Africa is closely linked to progress toward independence in identifying and studying the problems that are critical to genuine national autonomy. Networking is one response to the situations described by Dr. Kinyanjui and Dr. An on-going undertaking of the AERN is the extension of African educational research symposia to serve the interests of graduate students and professors who are specializing in development education in other universities in your region.