International Journal of African Higher Education
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Articles submitted to the International Journal of African Higher Education (IJAHE) should be an original academic contribution and should not be under consideration for publication by any other journal at the same time.

For each submission, authors should prepare two separate documents: The Title Page and the Main Document. The title page indicates the title of the manuscript, author/s name and title/s (if any), the institution of affiliation, country of residence, author/s' email address/es, and the abstract of the paper. The title page should be sent to ijahe@bc.edu via email. The main document should not include any personal information and has to be submitted through the online journal management system.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 8,500 words, typed and double-spaced. Electronic versions should be submitted as MS Word or RTF attachments by email. Excessive formatting of the text is not necessary.

Each article should be submitted with an abstract of 150 to 200 words, stating the main research problem, brief methodological approaches, major findings, and conclusions. Articles that do not follow this format may not be accepted or their publication may be delayed.

Please submit articles on Boston College Libraries website at http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ijahe.

Any maps, charts, or graphs must be publication-ready or submitted in formats easy to manipulate for publication. The original data used to plotting charts and graphs must also be concurrently submitted.

Please use the APA style (Author, Date) for referencing. The list of references must include every work cited in the text. Authors should follow the APA style guide for reference list format and may consult it at http://www.apastyle.org/.

Notes and References

The Journal recommends the use of endnotes, sparingly and also does not use footnotes. Place all notes at the end of the work, before the list of references.

IJAHE is published using Open Journal Systems (OJS) software which is managed by Boston College Libraries at http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/libraries/collections/eScholarshipHome/Journals.html

IJAHE is currently available only online. Authors are entitled to a complimentary PDF copy of the issue in which their articles appear for either printing or distribution.

IJAHE does not charge any fees for submitting or publishing an article.

IJAHE is a peer-reviewed, academic publication of the International Network for Higher Education in Africa (http://www.bc.edu/inhea.html) hosted at Higher Education Training and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa (http://www.ukzn.ac.za), in cooperation with the Association of African Universities (http://www.aau.org/).

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Please note, you are required to download, sign, and submit the License Agreement. Authors will be required to sign our standard License Ageement before publication. 

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).