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Table of contents: The role and impact offunding agencies on higher education and research for development/Göran Hydén.-- The first phil osophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher educat ion policy/ John Higgins.-- Research training, international collabora tion, and the agencies of Ugandan scientists in Uganda /Eren Zink.-- Th e status of research at three Ugandan universities / ABK Kasozi.-- Und oing the effects of neoliberal reform: The experience of Uganda’s Mak erere Institute of Social Research / Mahmood Mamdani.-- South–North c ollaboration and service enhancements at Makerere and Bergen University libraries / Maria GN Musoke & Ane Landøy.-- North–South research c ollaborations and their impact on capacity building: A Southern perspec tive/ Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma.-- Death on campus: Is academic fre edom possible for students and academics at the University of Malawi?/ Joe Mlenga .-- The crisis of higher education in Sudan with special re ference to the University of Khartoum, 1956–2014 / Fadwa Taha & Ander s Bjørkelo .-- Knowledge generation through joint research: What can North and South learn from each other?/ Ishtiaq Jamil & Sk Tawfique M H aque .-- Into the great wide open: Trends and tendencies in universit y collaboration for development / Jorun Nossum.-- International co-op eration and the democratisation of knowledge – Tor Halvorsen