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24 mai 2017

Tapping into the power of technical education

By Munyaradzi Makoni. African technical universities can help to add value to primary commodities and other natural resources, support economic transformation, provide technology solutions to small and medium enterprises, and contribute to wealth creation as part of enhancing technical and vocational education and training, or TVET, on the continent. More...

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24 mai 2017

Anglophone crisis – Academics, students stand firm

By Tunde Fatunde. Schools, universities and law courts remain shuttered in two provinces of Anglophone Cameroon as students, academics, school teachers and lawyers continue to paralyse activities in protest against what they perceive as linguistic, cultural and educational injustices and other forms of marginalisation by the Cameroonian government. More...

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24 mai 2017

Predatory journals – A threat to academic credibility

By Stephen Coan. Predatory journals and their publishers, driven solely by profit motives, are posing an increasing threat to academic credibility and to individual reputations. More...

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24 mai 2017

SOAS students explain stance on decolonisation

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Students from the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, or SOAS, University of London hit the headlines at the start of this year for their campaign to "Decolonise Our Minds", aimed at transforming the curriculum. At last month’s international conference on the “Contribution of Business Schools and Higher Education to Inclusive Development”, students representing the institution insisted they are not backing down on their calls for change. More...

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24 mai 2017

Scaling walls and building bridges in higher education

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Elite universities create walls to exclude disadvantaged communities by applying a decontextualised version of academic merit which assumes that all students regardless of social background have an equal chance to compete. More...

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24 mai 2017

Bridging the inter-generational chasm in higher education

By Munyaradzi Makoni and Sharon Dell. Universities and their leaders have a “social and moral responsibility” to place inequality and social justice at the core of their public purpose concerns, and to address the “massive socio-cultural, inter-generational chasm” which currently exists between the current generation of students and university administrators. More...

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24 mai 2017

College remains shut despite calls by opposition, students

By Kudzai Mashininga. A constituent college of the University of Malawi, which failed to open in March for the first semester owing to a lecturer pay strike, remains shut despite calls for government intervention from both the political opposition and students. More...

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24 mai 2017

Pan African University institute seeks new student cohort

By Laeed Zaghlami. The Algiers-based Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (including Climate Change), or PAUWES, seeking to create a new generation of African leaders capable of helping to address Africa’s most significant development challenges, has launched a call for new students for the next academic year. More...

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24 mai 2017

Ministry recognises degrees of eight private universities

By Wagdy Sawahel. In what it described as a “historic” step to boost private higher education, Morocco's Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training earlier this month recognised the degrees of eight private universities. More...

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24 mai 2017

Minister calls for ‘new kind of academic’

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Calling for universities to produce “a new kind of academic”, the Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Blade Nzimande said his department would be implementing a capacity development programme prioritising historically disadvantaged universities and focused on student success, staff development and curriculum transformation. More...

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