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Home»Dr Giuditta Fontana

Higher education, developmental leadership and good governance

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  • Dr Giuditta Fontana
August 2017

The available literature suggests, first, that there is no established causal pathway connecting higher education, developmental leadership and good governance. Recent studies have found a general pattern of positive correlation between levels of enrolment in higher education and indicators of good governance, but debates continue as to: the ability of individual leaders ...» more

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