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21 septembre 2017

The reckoning begins at university in racism storm

By Nell Gluckman, The Chronicle of Higher Education. All summer, the trio had been going back and forth on a messaging app, joining a larger group of student activists organising a response to a series of white-supremacist events that had been planned to take place here in Charlottesville, the university’s home city. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Students and rectors oppose state university reforms

By María Elena Hurtado. On 21 August students of Universidad de Chile, or UCH, the country’s largest university, staged a sit-in at its headquarters in central Santiago to press for changes to the state universities bill, tabled by the government last June. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Lecturers take action over salaries

University teaching staff at the University of Kinshasa, or UNIKIN, have voted to continue a strike over pay as talks with government have failed. The move comes as academic staff in several other institutions in the country express unhappiness over non-payment of salaries. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Report proposes raising lecturer retirement age to 70

A report commissioned by the higher education union Syndicat Autonome de l’Enseignement Supérieur, or SAES, has called for the raising of the age of retirement for university lecturers and recruitment drives as the higher education system struggles with higher student numbers and ageing lecturers. More...

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21 septembre 2017

New academy leader champions the power of science

By Stephen Coan. “There is good science in Africa,” said Professor Nelson Torto, the newly appointed executive director of the African Academy of Sciences, or AAS. More...

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21 septembre 2017

As by Fire – The end of the South African university

By Jonathan Jansen. I wrote As by Fire: The end of the South African university primarily to search for the deep, underlying causes that explained the promising but also devastating student protests of 2015-16 on many of the leading university campuses in the country. More...

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21 septembre 2017

University unbundling to create four institutions

By Kudzai Mashininga. The unbundling will see the four colleges – Chancellor College, College of Medicine, the Polytechnic, and Kamuzu College of Nursing – operate as stand-alone entities. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Private universities struggle to make ends meet

By Maina Waruru. Even after the Kenyan government last year permitted the enrolment of state-sponsored students in private universities, many of these institutions continue to grapple with financial deficits as a result of low student numbers, poorly planned and rapid expansion, as well as weak financial and management accounting systems. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Small Business Acts : Catalyseurs de l’entrepreneuriat africain

L’Afrique n’est pas différente des autres continents : le dynamisme économique africain repose comme ailleurs en très grande partie sur les PME. La nouvelle classe d’entrepreneurs africains ayant émergé depuis dix à vingt ans apporte avec audace et innovation des réponses durables aux besoins d’un continent dont les économies sont encore fragiles. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Continuing the reform process in France to improve job and income prospects

Posted by oecdecoscope. Economic growth is strengthening in France, supported by consumption and investment, and the labour market is gradually recovering, as past reductions of comparatively high labour and business taxes are starting to take effect. However, GDP and employment growth are still lagging relative to the euro-area average. More...

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