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11 janvier 2015

Two new universities in 2016 to increase student capacity

By Jane Marshall. Construction is about to start on two new universities in Senegal, each with capacity for 30,000 students, President Macky Sall has announced. One will be the second public university in the capital Dakar, and the other is the University of Sine-Saloum at Kaolack. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

High cost of upgrading polytechnics into universities

By Francis Kokutse. It will cost Ghana’s government US$180 million per annum for the next three years to fully turn the country’s 10 polytechnics into technical universities, a report by a committee set up to work on the institutional conversion programme has said. Meanwhile, a working group has developed a national quality assurance framework for higher education. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

Roles and functions of HE councils in eight countries

By Karen MacGregor. Challenges facing higher education agencies in eight African countries have been identified in research by Tracey Bailey, leader of the Roles and Functions of Higher Education Councils and Commissions in Africa Project. Problems include political interference and weaknesses in planning, system-level governance, capacity and data quality. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

HERANA – Research on flagship universities in Africa

By Nico Cloete, Ian Bunting and Peter Maassen. The Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa – HERANA – project was initiated to explore the link between universities and development on the continent. The study started with the collection of data at both the national and institutional levels at universities in eight African countries. Read more...
11 janvier 2015

HERANA III – Emerging research universities in eight African countries

By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In a Special Report this week, we cover the launch of the third phase of HERANA – the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa – and look at findings so far from analysis of data collected over six years at flagship universities in eight African countries.
In Africa Features, Mosoba Mosoba describes the Open University of Tanzania’s efforts to expand its presence across the region, and in Africa Analysis Goolam Mohamedbhai calls for universities to integrate sustainable development into all of their teaching, research and engagement activities.
Rahul Choudaha argues in World Blog that universities need to ask themselves four questions to test the sustainability of their international student recruitment strategies.
In Commentary, Marguerite Dennis urges universities to use career counselling as part of efforts to prepare students for the job market. Frances Saunders outlines ways in which Britain’s Institute of Physics is tackling underlying bias against girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and Jiang Bo and Robert Coelen chart China’s fast-tracking of higher education internationalisation.
In Global Features, Zofeen T Ebrahim reports on the disruption of education in Pakistan following a Taliban attack on a school last month. Read more...
21 décembre 2014

Influx of foreign students sign of robust edu system

Deputy Minister in charge of tertiary education, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has said claims of falling educational standards in Ghana are unfounded given the fact that many foreign nationals prefer getting their tertiary education in the country.
“In Africa, Ghana is now the preferred destination for higher education. Ghana and South Africa,” he told a gathering at the Government for the People (G4P) Forum at the Accra International Conference Centre on Thursday December 18, 2014. More...

14 décembre 2014

African Universities or Universities in Africa

HomeBy Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Universities in developing countries are ignoring potential areas of strength because they are too focused on imitating successful Anglo or American institutions, according to a South African university leader. Read more...
14 décembre 2014

Transforming policy through science in Africa

By Turner Isoun. Scientific evidence is regarded around the world as an increasingly important contributor to good government. This is as true of the global South, where governments face issues of sustainable development, poverty reduction and building healthy societies, as it is of the North. Read more...

14 décembre 2014

Four specialist regional universities to be created

By Mohamed Ag Ahmedou. Niger is seeking to enhance higher education by opening four new universities, each specialising in an area key to development. The West African country’s universities continue to face challenges, but experts hail the development as a boost to the education system.
Last August, the government approved the creation of universities in Agadez, Dosso, Diffa and Tillabéri, said Abdoul Karim Alpha Gado, science editor at a Niger monthly magazine SEEDA. The universities are anticipated to open next year. Read more...

14 décembre 2014

Kenya pumps US$2.7 million into Pan African University

By Maina Waruru and Gilbert Nganga. Kenya has extended an extra US$2.7 million to the Pan African University for the construction of facilities at its campus near Nairobi – the Institute of Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation, or PAUSTI – one of five regional ‘nodes’ being developed across the continent. Last month the campus graduated its first ever masters students. Read more...

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