By Nico Cloete. The term ‘transformation’ is now standard rhetoric in higher education change discourse. However, when the Union of Democratic University Staff Associations, or UDUSA, was formed in 1987, many activists were not familiar with the term. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Racial problems that have dogged the South Africa’s prestigious Stellenbosch University have flared after the publication of a documentary about the discriminatory experiences of black students. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. According to the draft document Transforming Our World: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development, from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs or DESA, 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets will form the main agenda of the global forum. Read more...

By Esther Nakkazi. Public universities in Uganda have resumed full operation after several weeks of industrial action. Non-teaching staff had laid down their tools citing low pay and anger over government action to raise lecturer salaries but not theirs. Read more...

By Jane Marshall. The number of international students studying in Mauritius increased during 2014 to more than 1,500 from 65 countries, while the number of Mauritians studying abroad also rose, according to the 16th annual Participation in Tertiary Education report. Read more...

By Maina Waruru. Police officers will be deployed on request to Kenyan universities to boost security and guard against possible future attacks by religious extremists, the government has said. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. A government plan to withdraw funding from university-based primary schools and demonstration secondary schools on all campuses in Nigeria has met with sharp resistance from parents, some university staff, university-based unions and university management. Read more...

By Reuben Kyama. Hundreds of African students are leaving for Japan this year, the second group to join the African Business Education Initiative for Youth, a five-year plan to provide 1,000 young Africans with opportunities to study for masters degrees at top universities and do internships at leading Japanese companies. Read more...

By Wagdy Sawahel. A new collaborative masters degree to develop Africa’s next generation of public policy leaders has been initiated by the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, or PASGR, in cooperation with 12 universities in seven African countries. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. Student success is crucial to the purposes of open, distance and e-learning – but challenging to achieve compared with selective post-secondary systems – a study for the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE, found. Read more...