[ Les universités africaines face au défi d’employabilité: Quel avenir pour les sciences sociales ? ]
Volume 67, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 75–82
Aziale Komlan Agbetoézian1
1 Université de Kara, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Do the social sciences and humanities have a future in higher education when we know that the orientation of current societies requires universities to move towards training that fits the job market, less and less demanding of specialists in these sciences? This is the concern that is at the heart of this article. Starting from the hypothesis that the solution to the question of employment in African societies requires the restructuring of training offers, not in the sense of abolishing the social and human sciences, but rather reorienting them in the direction of the dynamics of societies, we have organized our argument in three parts. The first part establishes the observation of the employment crisis in relation to training g. The second part analyses restructuring efforts in universities and the third part identifies a number of avenues that should underpin the resilience of the social sciences and humanities in African societies.
Author Keywords: Development, technological sector, restructuring, hard sciences, social sciences and humanities, university.
Volume 67, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 75–82
Aziale Komlan Agbetoézian1
1 Université de Kara, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Do the social sciences and humanities have a future in higher education when we know that the orientation of current societies requires universities to move towards training that fits the job market, less and less demanding of specialists in these sciences? This is the concern that is at the heart of this article. Starting from the hypothesis that the solution to the question of employment in African societies requires the restructuring of training offers, not in the sense of abolishing the social and human sciences, but rather reorienting them in the direction of the dynamics of societies, we have organized our argument in three parts. The first part establishes the observation of the employment crisis in relation to training g. The second part analyses restructuring efforts in universities and the third part identifies a number of avenues that should underpin the resilience of the social sciences and humanities in African societies.
Author Keywords: Development, technological sector, restructuring, hard sciences, social sciences and humanities, university.
Abstract: (french)
Les sciences sociales et humaines ont-elles un avenir dans l’enseignement supérieur quand on sait que l’orientation des sociétés actuelles impose aux universités d’aller vers des formations qui cadrent avec le marché de l’emploi, de moins en moins demandeur des spécialistes de ces sciences ? Telle est la préoccupation qui est au cœur de cet article. En partant de l’hypothèse selon laquelle la résolution de la question de l’emploi dans les sociétés africaines passe par la restructuration des offres de formation, non dans le sens de la suppression des sciences sociales et humaines, mais plutôt de leur réorientation dans le sens de la dynamique des sociétés, nous avons organisé notre argumentation en trois parties. La première partie établit le constat de la crise de l’emploi en lien avec la formation. La deuxième partie analyse les efforts de restructuration dans les universités et la troisième partie identifie un certain nombre de pistes qui doivent fonder la résilience des sciences sociales et humaines dans les sociétés africaines.
Author Keywords: Développement, filière technologique, restructuration, sciences dures, sciences sociales et humaines, université.
How to Cite this Article
Aziale Komlan Agbetoézian, “African universities facing the employability challenge: What future for the social sciences ?,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 75–82, June 2023.
