By Amy Baker. International House Cape Town in South Africa has announced it is partnering with Kaplan International Colleges to offer the Kaplan Global Foundation Programme in the South African capital. More...
Going Global: more HE cooperation needed within Africa, say ministers
By Natalie Marsh. More intra-African and South-South cooperation is needed in higher education at both the institutional and government level, ministers from across the continent have said. More...
Kenya Proposes New Masters Degree Guidelines
UK Launches £45m Higher Education Cooperative
Südafrika: Stipendien für Jungfrauen sind verfassungswidrig
Möglichst lange Jungfrau bleiben - das sollte sich für junge Mädchen in Südafrika lohnen, und zwar finanziell. So dachte ein Bürgermeister in einer kleinen Provinz im Osten des Landes. Er bot Universitätsstipendien für junge Studentinnen an, die sich ihre Unschuld bewahrten. Mehr...
From promising practice to proven student success models
By Karen MacGregor. Five universities selected to the Siyaphumelela – 'we succeed' – programme profiled their work at the second annual conference of the initiative, held from 28-30 June in Durban on South Africa’s east coast. They were joined by a range of governmental and institutional groups working with some urgency in the area of evidence-based student support. Read more...
Revamped aid scheme gives more support to more students
By Nicola Jenvey. South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme, or NSFAS, is being substantially overhauled to pave the way for assistance for a broader range of deserving tertiary students while recognising government’s responsibility to eliminate structures that lumber university drop-outs with loan repayments. Read more...
Literature by Africans in the diaspora can create alternative narratives
By Aretha Phiri. Celebrated Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo has no time for “Afropolitans”. This is a notion popularised by the self-described ‘multi-local’ author Taiye Selasi. Afropolitans are a current, cosmopolitan generation of ‘Africans of the world’. Read more...
It’s crucial to locate the ‘African’ in African Studies
By Robtel Neajai Pailey. Africans have always produced knowledge about Africa. Their contributions have in some cases been “preferably unheard”. In others they’ve been “deliberately silenced”. Read more...
‘Meta-portal’ of higher education resources in French
By Wagdy Sawahel. The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie or AUF has launched a virtual repository of educational resources called ‘meta-portal IDNEUF’ to provide free access to Francophone university resources. The global launch was held in Mali – Africa is the continent with the largest number of French speakers, 96.2 million. Read more...