Optimising the contribution of higher education in the SADC region

By Sharon Dell – Africa Editor. In Africa Features, Sharon Dell reports on a bid by the Southern African Regional Universities Association to achieve greater alignment with SADC – the Southern African Development Community – as a way of ensuring that universities play a more active role in the implementation of regional development strategies, while Laeed Zaghlami gives an upbeat account of what Algerian universities are doing to become more innovative.
In News from around the continent, Kudzai Mashininga reports on the progress made by Zimbabwean science universities in reverting to their core mandates of STEM-focused education in accordance with government pressure, while Gilbert Nakweya reports on the indefinite closure of the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and Christabel Ligami writes about a new East African university collaboration to fight diseases afflicting local communities.
In our Special Report centred on the recent 11th Annual University of KwaZulu-Natal Higher Education Conference held in Durban, Nicola Jenvey highlights, among a selection of articles, the ongoing importance of decolonisation in debates around South African higher education.
In a quarterly series on Academic Corruption, published by University World News in partnership with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation/CHEA International Quality Group, Brendan O’Malley reports on a study being conducted into what quality assurance and accreditation bodies are doing to tackle academic corruption around the world. More...