By Brendan O’Malley. The president of one of Ireland’s leading universities has warned that the institution may have to limit the number of places available to Irish students if the government fails to improve the funding situation for universities. Read more...
TNE and study abroad may perpetuate inequality – Study
By Brendan O’Malley. Overseas study and transnational education, or TNE, may perpetuate social inequality, according to a paper written by researchers at two universities in China. Read more...
Vice-chancellors set out priorities for Brexit talks
By Brendan O’Malley. Ahead of the formal start of Brexit talks on Monday, university leaders have said that the United Kingdom's world-leading university sector should help shape the negotiations and that UK universities provide the “antidote to the UK’s Brexit challenges”. Read more...
Older students benefit from University of the Third Age
Université du Troisième Âge – the University of the Third Age – of Mauritius or U3AM was opened four years ago and today has about 500 students, all over 55 years old, studying more than 25 courses. Read more...
Burkinabè students raise problems with visiting president
Students from Burkina Faso studying in Egypt took the opportunity to complain about their conditions to their president who was on a goodwill trip. Read more...
Students plan protest – This time over police ‘barbarity’
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...
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...