By Wachira Kigotho. Universities in Sub-Saharan Africa need to move away from the idea of libraries as buildings that stock books on dusty shelves to learning spaces that can facilitate access for students, academics and researchers to information at any time or place. For those libraries to attain cutting-edge status, however, they need to be properly funded. More...08 octobre 2018
Call for urgent ‘e-volution’ of university libraries
By Wachira Kigotho. Universities in Sub-Saharan Africa need to move away from the idea of libraries as buildings that stock books on dusty shelves to learning spaces that can facilitate access for students, academics and researchers to information at any time or place. For those libraries to attain cutting-edge status, however, they need to be properly funded. More...Leaders urged to work towards digital knowledge parity
By Wachira Kigotho. African leaders were urged to work towards 'digital parity' so as to enable the continent’s inhabitants to participate in and be represented as equals in both the digital and material worlds. More...Challenges of ensuring quality education
By Wondwosen Tamrat. Ethiopia is at the crossroads in terms of making a choice between consolidating current higher education achievements – by moving its budget focus to academic activities that improve the quality of tertiary education – or continuing with the old model of expansion that succeeded in creating an impressive number of new universities, but failed to provide the quality of output required. More...Accreditation lies at the heart of development
By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu. Over the past three decades, governments in developing countries, particularly in Africa, have realised the significant value of higher education for national development. Accordingly, many governments in those countries have invested substantially in higher education expansion and have enacted liberalisation policies to allow private entrepreneurs to participate in the higher education sector. More...Minister unveils ambitious plans for higher education
By Tonderayi Mukeredzi and Kudzai Mashininga. Zimbabwe’s new and extensive development plans include creating innovation hubs at universities, upgrading student accommodation, making higher education more affordable for students and establishing the country’s first geospatial and space agency. More...Union joins strike after government reneges on deal
By Jackie Opara. Nigeria’s university staff union has joined a national strike to demand that the government stick to the terms of the agreement that it made with the union over public university revitalisation. More...University cash crisis worsens as state cuts budgets
By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya’s beleaguered public universities have been told to further tighten their belts after being slapped with a US$10 million budget cut that will worsen their cash woes, in austerity measures that are meant to avert a looming economic crisis. More...Academics criticise plans to establish new universities
By Alex Abutu. Academics have lashed out against proposals to significantly increase the number of public universities in Nigeria, as the government unsuccessfully grappled with an assessment report of public universities that highlighted glaring weaknesses within the sector. More...Pour promouvoir la vache ferrandaise
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. La Ferrandaise est une vache auvergnate de couleur pie rouge, originaire de la chaîne des Puys dans le Puy de Dôme, utilisée indifféremment pour le travail, la viande et le lait, celui-ci permettant en particulier de fabriquer la fourme de Rochefort-Montagne bénéficiant d'une cave d'affichage gérée par la coopérative La Fourmontoise. Plus...
Student death at sea highlights education crisis
By Wagdy Sawahel. Outcry after a student was killed by the Moroccan navy during an illegal migration journey at sea has highlighted the ongoing emigration by young Moroccans in search of a better education and living standards in Europe. More...
