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9 novembre 2018

Women scholars urged to seize global opportunities

By Maina Waruru. African women scholars have been urged to be less cautious and take advantage of international opportunities open to them in respect of scholarships, fellowships, grants, leadership positions and career advancement. More...

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9 novembre 2018

AU’s development goals hampered by skills shortages

By Gilbert Nakweya. Key targets for the first 10 years of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 are being jeopardised by a lack of critical technical skills, and a new skills development agenda led by business and academia is urgently needed, the recent Sixth African Higher Education Week and Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Biennial Conference heard. More...

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9 novembre 2018

TETFund is failing local universities – Academics

By Alex Abutu. The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), the agency tasked with the disbursement of the education tax to public universities, has turned its back on its corruption-plagued past and is “cruising to success”, according to its executive secretary. But Nigerian academics say the agency is still essentially enriching universities abroad instead of investing in higher education in Nigeria. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Light at the end of the tunnel for shunned law students?

By Tunde Fatunde. The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is awaiting the outcome of its bid to amend the act in terms of which the university was created, in the latest attempt to resolve a five-year-long imbroglio preventing the university’s law graduates from gaining access to the Nigerian Law School – a prerequisite for any law graduate seeking to practise law. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Accreditation needs critical thinking and innovation

By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu. It is an undeniable fact that Ghana is a country of university degree title lovers and worshippers, particularly doctoral degrees. No matter what the holders of doctoral degrees know and are able to do for themselves, their families, their communities or their nation states, they are accorded a high level of respectability, nobility and honour in Ghanaian society. More...

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9 novembre 2018

HE internationalisation – Towards a national policy

By Wondwosen Tamrat. The Ethiopian government’s plan to develop its long overdue policy of internationalisation – set down in its 2016 Ethiopian Education Sector Development Programme V (2015/16-2019/20) – will depend upon synergy being created at national, local and institutional levels. More...

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9 novembre 2018

UWN – Canvassing student and staff views on the niqab

By Wagdy Sawahel. A United Nations human rights committee finding on 23 October that the French ban on the full-body veil violated women’s freedom of religion is likely to intensify debate on the issue of the niqab in society, and at universities around the world.
In addition to France, bans and partial bans instituted on veils have remained in place in Belgium, Bulgaria, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, according to a Washington Post report. Face coverings were reportedly also banned in cities or towns in Spain, Italy and Switzerland, and legislation was pending for local or national bans in Germany, Latvia, Finland and Luxembourg.
In Africa, bans have been imposed in Chad, Cameroon, Niger and the Republic of the Congo, according to a news report. Cairo University in Egypt banned the niqab for university staff, claiming it hinders communication, especially during lectures, according to a report. More...

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9 novembre 2018

PM intervenes on niqab issue, Islamists lose a battle

By Azzeddine Bensouiah. The Algerian prime minister’s recent reiteration of a ban on the wearing of the niqab (face veil) by all public service employees in the workplace, including universities, can be seen as evidence of a push to enforce a rule that has existed since 2006 but not strictly applied because of pressure from Islamists. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Anti-corruption drive – What about the universities?

By Gilbert Nakweya. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta’s war on corruption has seen the arrest and prosecution of high-profile civil servants from current and past regimes, but have universities been overlooked in his campaign? Some academics and stakeholders think so. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Government backtracks, calls for new university council

By Francis Kokutse. The government of Ghana has retreated from a recent decision to dissolve the governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and replace it with an interim council in the wake of demonstrations by students which resulted in the institution’s closure. In a new statement, the Ministry of Information has requested that the chancellor reconstitute the council in accordance with the university's statutes and laws. More...

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