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18 décembre 2017

Rhodes University Won't Change Name

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The governing council for Rhodes University, in South Africa, voted 15 to 9 not to change the university’s name following years of debate, the Johannesburg-based TimesLIVE reported Wednesday. More...

17 décembre 2017

The Future of Academe in Zimbabwe

HomeBy Holly Else for Times Higher Education. Zimbabwe’s universities must shed politically tainted leaders and rediscover academic freedom in order to fix the damage done to the country’s higher education system by Robert Mugabe, according to researchers who fled his brutal regime. More...

30 novembre 2017

What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond

What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond
Pauline Rose, World Education Blog, 2017/09/13
Privatization and private investment are often seen as key to the creation of educational opportunities in the devleoping world. This article (4 page PDF) is a useful and fairminded look at some such initiatives in Liberia. More...

28 novembre 2017

Drought in Somalia Drives Children from School

Al FanarIn this remote town on the Horn of Africa, about 270 miles south of the capital city of Mogadishu, schoolchildren loiter in the streets in search of food. More...

27 novembre 2017

Black academics soon to outnumber whites – Study

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...
26 novembre 2017

A South African case study: how to transform student support efforts

The ConversationSouth Africa’s universities have created a number of programmes to address the historic – and still existing – imbalance between black and white students. More...

26 novembre 2017

South Africa can’t afford to see its universities pitch over the precipice

The ConversationFor the past two years the actions of government and protesting students have slowly started squeezing South Africa’s universities into a shadow of their former selves. More...

26 novembre 2017

Six barriers that make it difficult for African states to use research for policy

The ConversationAfrican policymakers need access to high quality evidence to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) successfully. The SDGs are arguably the most broad-ranging development goals to be ratified by United Nations member states. Their overall aim is to “leave no one behind” by 2030. More...

26 novembre 2017

Jobs and paid-for schooling can keep Tanzanian girls from early marriages

The ConversationSub-Saharan Africa is home to four of the top five countries in early marriage – or child marriage – rates: Niger, Chad, Mali and Central African Republic. Despite decades of campaigning to restrict or forbid early marriage, little has changed for the world’s poorest women. More...

26 novembre 2017

Options on the table as South Africa wrestles with funding higher education

The ConversationA report into the feasibility of offering free higher education at South Africa’s universities has finally been released. It has been nearly two years in the making, developed by a commission of inquiry that President Jacob Zuma set up in response to nationwide fee protests. More...

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