At a time when many American universities are reporting declines in applications from international students, some universities north of the border are seeing increases on the magnitude of 20% or more, writes Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed. More...

An online distance programme to train managers for small and medium businesses and industries has been officially launched in Dakar, Senegal, under a partnership between Centre Africain d’Etudes Supérieures en Gestion or CESAG – the African Centre for Higher Studies in Management – and the Total Group. More...

Research organisations from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are collaborating to intensify scientific research on Lake Kivu, thanks to funding of €1.3 million (US$1.4 million) from the government of the Netherlands. More...

By Onyi Nwaneri. In South Africa, 3.4 million young people do not have jobs, are not in school and are not receiving a proper education. With no income or education they are likely to be poor and unemployed for the rest of their lives. More...

By Kwesi Kwaa Prah. If as African academics we seek legitimation for our work on non-African, particularly Western platforms, institutions and journals, there is little real chance of gaining or creating sovereignty in knowledge production about our societies. More...

By Gilbert Nakweya. The latest eAtlas of Gender Inequality in Education produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, Institute for Statistics shows that Sub-Saharan Africa is among those regions with the highest gender disparities in education: approximately 9.5 million girls will never enter a classroom, compared to 5 million boys. More...

By Christabel Ligami. The Rwandan Ministry of Education has temporarily suspended the operations of four universities and courses in six other universities as part of a strategy to deal with sub-standard educational offerings. More...

By Sungula Nkabinde. A two-day convention aimed at supporting the search for solutions to South Africa’s higher education challenges was called off last weekend after the event descended into chaos on the first day. More...

By Laeed Zaghlami. The ministry of higher education and scientific research has sent a written notice to all university presidents, criticising them for non-compliance with a July 2016 ministerial decree which criminalised plagiarism, and urging them to deal with all irregularities in accordance with the rules. More...

By Wagdy Sawahel. The Tunisia-Turkey higher education cooperation plan was published on the website of the Tunisian Higher Education Ministry on 9 March and marks a first step in the implementation of recommendations issued at the Turkish-Tunisia Universities Collaboration Forum held by the Higher Education Council on 2 May last year. More...