By Kudzai Mashininga. Zambia's Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo has said the government is working on a policy to make it mandatory for all graduates to give back to their former institutions. More...
Professor Patrice Nganang, of Stony Brook University, New York, who has been detained in Cameroon for a week, has been transferred to another facility and was scheduled to appear before a new prosecutor, his supporters said in a news release, writes Zachary R Dowdy for Newsday. More...
By Sharon Dell. Defying the advice of the commission he appointed to look into the issue of fee-free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday 16 December announced in a statement that the African National Congress-led government would introduce fully subsidised free higher education for poor undergraduate students from 2018. More...
Government is being asked to extend the Ghana Education Trust Fund support to private universities in Ghana to reduce the burden of running the institutions, writes Prince Appiah for Luv FM. More...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa said higher learning institutions have an obligation to contribute to economic development through innovative research, writes Stephen Chadenga for NewsDay. More...
The council of Rhodes University has voted against a name change for the institution citing financial constraints. The university made the announcement last week through a six-page statement by council – the highest decision-making body, reports the Mail & Guardian. More...
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme has told members of parliament that it could encounter difficulties if President Jacob Zuma decides it should also cater for the so-called ‘missing middle’ in the 2018 academic year, writes Bianca Capazorio for TimesLIVE. More...
By Mark Paterson. Against a backdrop of socio-economic turbulence in which the pressure for a comprehensive transformation of South African universities has reached a point of no return, a recent meeting of vice-chancellors and senior advancement officers reviewed the capacity of higher education institutions to engage a wide range of stakeholders – including the government, the private sector, students and alumni, and communities of practice – in processes of change. More...
Although more than 80% of the country’s population is black, its academic sector has remained disproportionately white – a legacy of the apartheid era. But over the past decade, the proportion of black South African researchers has risen steadily: from 26% in 2005 to 35% in 2015, according to a study published in Higher Education last month, writes Sarah Wild for Nature. More...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. African universities stand to benefit – through partnerships – from the German Research Foundation’s new annual €533 million (US$626 million) seven-year Excellence Strategy that seeks to stimulate competition among universities in Germany, according to a foundation spokesperson. More...