Students were last week planning a silent march, after police violently broke up a previous demonstration against university authorities’ refusal to meet students' demands for increased grants and permission to study in lecture halls outside course times, curtailment of Wi-Fi and bad living conditions, among other grievances. Read more...
21 juin 2017
Students plan protest – This time over police ‘barbarity’
Higher education harmonisation – Not just a dream
By Francis Kokutse. The higher education institution qualifications harmonisation project embarked upon by the African Union is part of attempts by the continental body to ensure that the integration of the people in Africa is not confined to the political level alone, the head of education at the African Union, Dr Beatrice Njenga, has said. Read more...
Governments must work with universities on climate change
By Gilbert Nakweya. East African governments should work with universities to build knowledge on climate change with a view to building the capacity and resilience of local communities, who largely depend on rain-fed agriculture, to mitigate the consequences of climate change. Read more...
Monarch joins furore over new specialised college bill
By Tunde Fatunde. An influential king in Western Nigeria has intervened in the ongoing controversy around the scrapping of management science courses in 25 federal universities of agriculture in a move aimed to correct what is perceived by the education minister as mission drift away from the fundamental objectives of the specialised universities. Read more...
‘US stands to lose as much as Africa if Fogarty closes’
By Andrew Green. A proposal to cut funding for the John E Fogarty International Center from the upcoming United States federal government budget by President Donald Trump’s administration has prompted an outcry from academics and educators across Africa. Read more...
Student views – Keeping higher education tuned in
By Ard Jongsma. Students must become full partners in higher education development to keep it tuned to current and changing demands, according to the two students who presented their cases at the 14th Association of African Universities or AAU General Conference and Golden Jubilee Celebrations held in Accra, Ghana, on 6 June. Read more...
Tuning in to graduate employability
By Sharon Dell. Among African universities, many of which are rooted in struggling national economies, the issue of graduate employability and entrepreneurship has taken centre stage over the past few years. Read more...
The AAU – A continuous champion of higher education
By Sharon Dell. The Association of African Universities, or AAU, was founded in Morocco in 1967 with 34 of the then existing 46 higher education institutions in Africa. Today the association has a membership of 386 African higher education institutions from 46 countries and has just celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Read more...
Peut-on accueillir des volontaires en attendant l’agrément ou l’avenant attribuant de nouveaux postes ?
Si votre agrément est arrivé à échéance ou que la totalité de votre enveloppe a déjà été utilisée, tant que vous n’avez pas d’autorisation de la part de l’Agence du Service Civique vous ne pouvez procéder à aucun nouvel accueil de volontaire. Plus...
Les effectifs en I.U.T. en 2016-2017 - Note Flash n°7 - Juin 2017
En 2016-2017, le nombre d’étudiants inscrits en institut universitaire de technologie (I.U.T.) est de 116 600, en légère augmentation par rapport à 2015-2016 (+0,3 %). Ils sont 63 400 à être inscrits en 1ère année d’IUT (en baisse de 0,3 %) et 53 200 à l’être en 2ème année d’I.U.T. (en hausse de 1,1 %). Voir l'article...
