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7 novembre 2017

Regional policy masters shows universities’ true mettle

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Long accused of being inflexible, African universities have, through a partnership-based research initiative focused on public policy, helped uncover a long-hidden truth: “Universities are not only open to innovative ideas and programmes but can also domesticate, own, finance and nurture them.” More...

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7 novembre 2017

The changing landscape of private higher education

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. Attempts at understanding private higher education globally date back over two decades, with the first publications appearing in the late 1990s. Yet, in 1998, at the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, the issue of private higher education was not really addressed. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Universities – Critical partners in building sovereignty

By Mark Paterson. Broken or inadequate relationships between governments and their local academic communities can undermine autonomous, democratic policy-making, leaving national polities prey to the agendas of foreign powers, according to a new study published by African Minds. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Tension builds as HE sector awaits government’s fee plan

By Sharon Dell. Tension is mounting as the higher education sector continues to await the official release of the Heher Commission report on the feasibility of fee-free higher education – mere weeks before the end of the 2017 academic year and following last weekend’s leak of the report by national newspaper City Press. More...

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7 novembre 2017

AAU workshop builds HE quality assurance capacity

By Francis Kokutse. Higher education institutions across Africa must improve their quality assurance efforts in order to produce graduates that are fit for work instead of turning out graduates who cannot be employed because they lack the requisite skills, Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities, or AAU, Professor Etienne Ehile, said. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Mugabe announces lifting of academic appointment freeze

By Kudzai Mashininga. President Robert Mugabe last week announced the lifting of a six-year freeze on recruitments at universities during a graduation ceremony of Lupane State University, or LSU, in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province at which an honorary doctorate in agricultural sciences was conferred on him. More...

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7 novembre 2017

University partnership taps lessons from South Korea

By Ochieng' O Benny. Four African universities have partnered with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology or KIST to promote applied science and technology research. More...

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7 novembre 2017

New qualifications framework to curb fake certificates

By Christabel Ligami. A higher education qualifications framework aimed, inter alia, at curbing the proliferation of fake certificates will be in place at the start of January 2018. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Report card shows drop in university education quality

More Israelis are getting college degrees – nearly half of men and some 60% of women – but the quality of their education is decreasing, which will have significant implications in the future. That is the conclusion reached by a new study, Report Card on Israel’s Higher Education System, conducted by the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, writes Linda Gradstein for The Media Line. More...

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7 novembre 2017

State to support technical universities, polytechnics

The government has pledged to give strong support to technical universities and polytechnics – to raise the quality of their training, to drive the nation’s industrialisation, reports Ghana News Agency. More...

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