Substance abuse – The unspoken challenge to HE goals
New partnership puts university teaching in the spotlight
Universities play an active role in Mandela Day
Long overdue audit reveals yawning skills deficits
How contracts drawn up as comic strips are being put to use in South Africa
Contracts are an important part of our lives. We need to sign them if we want to have a job, a place to live, medical services, insurance, a bank account, a loan, or to send our children to school. The list goes on. More...
Pan-African business school holds first MBA graduation
Tackling gender imbalances at the level of university vice-chancellor
In Africa Analysis, Oliver Mutanga, Bothwell Manyonga and Sindile Ngubane-Mokiwa raise some of their concerns about the new South African higher education disability policy, while Wondwosen Tamrat discusses the need to address the issue of substance abuse at institutions of higher education in Ethiopia.
In News from around the continent, Wagdy Sawahel reports on the surprise axing of Somalia’s higher education minister last week, Gilbert Nganga reports on moves by the Kenyan government to clamp down on graft in the public sector, including higher education, and Rodrigue Rwirahira writes on attempts by a PhD candidate in Rwanda to stop his research from being sabotaged by a proposed government tender.
In our World Blog this week, Marguerite J Dennis, inspired by the book Factfulness, urges universities to base their decisions on facts rather than perceived ideas and one-dimensional statistics when planning for a future of global collaboration and international student recruitment. More...
Santé en Afrique : comment répondre aux nouveaux défis ?
Les problèmes épidémiologiques du passé et ceux de demain cohabitent sur le continent africain. L’Afrique n’a pas encore achevé sa transition épidémiologique et doit relever un double défi : d’une part, éradiquer les maladies endémiques telles que le SIDA, le paludisme ou la tuberculose et, d’autre part, lutter contre le développement de maladies chroniques (diabète, cancer) et de maladies liées au vieillissement de la population, comme Alzheimer. Plus...
Africa’s Development Dynamics
The launch this week in Addis Ababa of the new flagship joint report Africa’s Development Dynamics 2018 alongside the African Union Commission reflects a fundamental commitment to an ongoing conversation on Africa, with Africa and for Africa. Thus, we did more than unveil a report on paper about the challenges of growth, jobs and inequalities. More...