By Munyaradzi Makoni. Three first bilateral research chairs between South Africa and the United Kingdom were launched during the Going Global 2016 conference last week. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The global connections of higher education are a major force for good and are helping to build a more open and empowered world, government ministers from South Africa and the United Kingdom told the opening plenary of Going Global, the British Council’s flagship higher education conference. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. Africa must respond to the education, knowledge and communications revolutions and mobilise knowledge and science not just for sustainable development but as major drivers of growth, the President of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim told Going Global 2016 last week. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. International research collaboration is a growing national policy preoccupation, according to a 26-country study by the British Council released last week – but quality assurance is lagging behind. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor. The internecine academic ‘conflict’ over league tables flared at last week’s Going Global 2016 conference. The latest Times Higher Education or THE World Reputation Rankings were released, dominated by the planet’s best-endowed universities, while an expert warned against basing policy on “what is essentially a report card on disparities of wealth”. Read more...

By Julie Cafley. The shifting landscape at universities around the world is creating some unfortunate casualties. In the Canadian context, the presidents at the University of British Columbia, the University of Saskatchewan and L’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières are some of its latest victims. Read more...

By Lisa M Dietlin. Gates Cambridge Scholars. Schwarzman Scholars. Knight-Hennessy Scholars. Names assigned to individuals receiving scholarships that aim to promote social leadership and transformation. Read more...

By Roger Chao Jr. With the world focused on Myanmar and its reform process since 2010, it is important to understand that any reform process requires transformational leadership. This transformational leadership can be seen at the national political level, but it can also be seen at the higher education sector level. Read more...

By Heather Nel. Universities globally are increasingly challenged by disruptive innovation that is revolutionary, unpredictable and moving at an unprecedented pace. In this context, universities have to navigate demands for ever-increasing scrutiny from funders, regulatory bodies and societal stakeholders to be accountable for achieving public good purposes such as promoting social justice and equality. Read more...

By Stephen Coan. “We aim to develop the future Nelson Mandela, the next Wangari Maathai, and the African Bill Gates.” There’s nothing shy about the aims of the African Leadership Academy, or ALA, in Honeydew, Johannesburg, South Africa, which, according to its website, “seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting its future leaders”. Read more...