The Talloires Network is accepting proposals for the University Education for Transformative Leadership in Africa Mini Grants. The deadline for proposals is September 4, 2015. See more...
The International Network for Higher Education in Africa (INHEA) announces the publication of "Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" an outcome two years of OSSREA-commissioned study. The 372-page book, published by Palgrave MacMillan, explores and analyses the state of funding and financing higher education in nine Sub-Saharan African countries. See more...
This study was conducted by the Association of African Universities (AAU) in partnership with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). The aim of the study was to determine what interface structures, policies, positions, incentives and funds are currently in place, as well as the services and interventions African institutions judge most important in order to strengthen their efforts in building linkages with the productive sector. See more...
In order to realize Vision 2025 – its vision for a sustainable learning society – Tanzania is currently developing a ten-year Education Sector Development Plan (ESDP), which will run from 2016 to 2025. More...
UNESCO is working with the Government of Mali to reinforce the country’s capacities in the training of educators with a view to achieving the Education for All goals. The chief objective is to strengthen the institutional capacities of ministries in charge of education as well as those of structures and institutions responsible for the initial and continuing training of educators. More...
Global Trends in Technology in Higher Education; Opportunities and Challenges for African Universities
SARUA: Southern African Regional Universities Association
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By Gerald Ouma. THE modern university has a long and complex history that is characterised, among others, by shifts in the understanding of the idea of the university; from an institution that was mainly concerned with elite reproduction to one that is now generally viewed as an engine of development. Read more...
By Bekezela Phakathi. THE Higher Education Department is looking at ways in which it can provide funding to students who come from families that earn too much to qualify for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) but not enough to finance tertiary studies. More...
By Samantha Spooner. South African universities employed about 50,000 permanent and temporary faculty members by 2011.
The role of universities in driving economic growth is widely known and was canvassed at the summit. But something very valuable, yet often overlooked, is the pivotal role they play at the core of the economic infrastructure and activity of Africa’s cities and towns. Read more...
By Nico Cloete. With 82,000 young Ivorians passing the school-leaving baccalauréat examination, giving them the right to higher education, but only 30,000 places available in the country’s universities, private Tunisian universities are hoping to attract them – and to extend their offerings to other countries in the region.
With schooling in Côte d’Ivoire recently made compulsory until the age of 16, nearly 5,000 Tunisian schoolteachers could find posts in Ivorian schools, according to La Presse de Tunisie. Read more...
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