By Wachira Kigotho. According to the new study, Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana, released on 20 October in Washington DC, most tertiary-educated graduates are in the public sector and fewer than 10% are in the private sector. Read more...

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenyan universities are sinking into a fresh financial crisis, with revelations in an audit that they are operating at huge deficits, hurting the quality of learning. A report from sector regulator the Commission for University Education shows that institutions face a US$100 million budget gap. Read more...

By Reuben Kyama. A second regional centres of excellence project, co-funded by the World Bank and aimed at providing sustainable solutions through science and technology in higher education across East and Southern Africa, was officially unveiled in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on 26 October. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. The report, Free to Think 2016, is SAR’s second instalment of its reporting of attacks on higher education, produced through its Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. Read more...

By Brendan O'Malley. Philanthropy to universities in Australia and New Zealand is gathering momentum, according to a new survey, with significant rises in new funds secured and cash income received. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. This week’s series on Transformative Leadership, in which University World News is partnering with The MasterCard Foundation, focuses on internationalisation. James Otieno Jowi argues that African university leaders are increasingly placing a premium on internationalisation and are seeing that it can drive institutional transformation. Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a significant new partnership that aims to transform agricultural education across Africa, and Bruno Morche writes that internationalisation is beginning to appear on the agendas of Latin American universities.
In Africa Features, Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a keynote address by Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, putting higher education struggles in South Africa in context, and Jane Marshall unpacks a series of articles published by Le Monde Afrique ahead of a conference in Senegal debating problems faced by higher education in Francophone Africa – and suggesting some innovative solutions.
In World Blog, Patrick Blessinger examines inclusive leadership in higher education, which focuses on changing policies and practices to create a more inclusive educational culture. And in Commentary, Beth Button describes a new initiative that links up student activists globally. Read more...

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In News Brendan O'Malley unpacks a new report by Scholars at Risk entitled Free to Think 2016, which warns of a global crisis of attacks on higher education communities, including en masse attacks and threats against individual students and staff.
In World Blog, Patrick Blessinger examines the emerging phenomenon of inclusive leadership in higher education, which focuses on changing policies and practices to create a more inclusive educational culture.
Focusing on internationalisation in our series on Transformative Leadership in which University World News is partnering with The MasterCard Foundation, James Otieno Jowi says that the African university leaders who place a premium on internationalisation are seeing that it can drive institutional transformation. Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a significant new partnership that aims to transform agricultural education throughout Africa, and Bruno Morche says that internationalisation is beginning to appear on the agendas of Latin American institutions, as they begin to recognise its transformative potential.
In Commentary, Beth Button describes a new initiative that links up student activists globally and aims to put students at the forefront of promoting cooperation and internationalisation. And Megan Clifford and Kevin Kinser suggest that leaders of international branch campuses need to agree shared goals between host and institution because the threat of diminished autonomy can threaten their sustainability and quality.
In Features, Anil Netto says public universities in Malaysia are reeling from the impact of heavy budget cuts, with research likely to be the hardest hit. And Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a speech at a global student affairs summit by Professor Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and chair of Universities South Africa, who said the current violence surrounding #FeesMustFall protests will not advance its cause, but the campaign’s aims are noble and the grievances it highlights must be addressed. Read more...