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28 juin 2015

Africa: balance between HE and TVET needed to meet upskill demand

By Natalie Marsh. A balance is needed between higher education and vocational training in Africa if it is to face the task of upskilling its enormous youth population, education leaders from across the continent have urged. More...

24 juin 2015

DRUSSA – Growing evidence-based research and uptake

By Esther Nakkazi. There are 22 universities participating in DRUSSA, which is led by the London-based Association of Commonwealth Universities and delivered in partnership with the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology at the University of Stellenbosch and Organisation Systems Design, both in South Africa. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Barack Obama University shut before presidential visit

By Maina Waruru. Alarmed by the negative impact it may have on the United States president’s visit to Kenya next month, the authorities have hurriedly moved to shut down the private Barack Obama University, saying it does not have Commission for University Education, or CUE, authorisation. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Students’ views are key to tackling the jobs timebomb

By Brendan O’Malley. Eleven million young people will be joining the jobs market every year for the next decade in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The population of the region will grow from 1.2 billion in 2010 to 2 billion in 2050 and 70% of those will be under 25. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Indigenous knowledge can help researchers solve crises

By Wachira Kigotho. African researchers have been urged to seek inspiration from indigenous knowledge and innovation systems in order to make headway in resolving the continent’s development problems. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Academics reject newly created universities

By Tunde Fatunde. Barely a week before handing over power to Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari, former president Goodluck Jonathan hurriedly approved the creation of five new universities. In a show of unanimous displeasure, lecturers rejected the new institutions, believing that they will create more problems for existing universities already groaning under dwindling funding. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Universities and innovation for inclusive development

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Universities in Southern Africa would have opportunities to reduce social and economic exclusion if they improved engagement with marginalised communities as a means to promote innovation for inclusive development. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Regional curriculum innovation network launched

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The Southern African Regional Universities Association, SARUA, has launched a network to strengthen curriculum development across the region. Its first project is the development of a curriculum for a masters degree in climate change. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Francophone higher education pledges digital cooperation

By Jane Marshall. Members of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, or OIF, a Paris-based organisation of 77 French-speaking countries and governments, said they undertook to encourage reciprocal knowledge, circulation and free use of digital university resources between their higher education institutions. Read more...

24 juin 2015

Indigenous knowledge has a role in solving Africa’s problems – CODESRIA

By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Stella-Maris Orim probes the implications of the casual approach of Nigerian students and academics to plagiarism – particularly for students wanting to study abroad.
In Africa Features, Wachira Kigotho describes a call by University of Rwanda academic Chika Ezeanya for African researchers to seek inspiration from indigenous knowledge in order to tackle development problems, made at the general assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa – CODESRIA.
Munyaradzi Makoni writes that the MasterCard Foundation will provide US$25 million in funding to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and Nicola Jenvey describes a need for universities to reverse a decline in entrepreneurship in South Africa.
In World Blog, Hans de Wit and Philip G Altbach argue for a balance in international education between increasing commercialisation and national self-interest on the one hand, and the ideals of internationalisation on the other.
In Commentary, Alina Cordova writes about the positive prospects for internationalisation of smaller campuses with limited resources, and Pamela Tate describes a model that improves lives through better employment linked to better education and recognition of prior learning.
We publish a second special report on the British Council’s Going Global conference held in London, and in Global Features, Yojana Sharma reports on China’s launch of a new international alliance of universities, ostensibly to provide research and engineering support for China’s mammoth ‘One Belt, One Road’ project along the ancient Silk Road route. Read more...
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