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27 août 2018

University of California nears funding tipping point

By Brendan O'Malley. After years of sagging funding and rising enrolment, the University of California (UC) system is nearing a ‘tipping point’ where it cannot continue to grow with California’s population and labour needs without seeking new revenues and state reinvestment, according to a new report from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education. More...

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27 août 2018

Russian trolls stoke public discord on vaccine science

By Brendan O'Malley. Social media ‘bots’ and Russian ‘trolls’ have promoted discord and spread “unverified and erroneous” information about vaccines on social media, disrupting science communication to the public and posing a threat to public health, according to new research led by the George Washington University in the United States. More...

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27 août 2018

China, US lead on gains in ARWU university ranking

By Brendan O'Malley. China and the United States are the biggest gainers in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), released on 15 August, with respectively six and four more universities in the top 500, but there is no movement at the very top with Harvard University leading for the 16th year running. More...

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27 août 2018

Revamp of university regulatory body faces opposition

By Shuriah Niazi. The Indian government's move to replace the higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission (UGC), with a new body to improve quality and allow institutions more autonomy faces opposition from parties in parliament and criticism that it would increase government control and politicisation of education. More...

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27 août 2018

Visa rules reformed to attract more foreign students

By John Gerritsen. The New Zealand government has overhauled post-study work rights for foreign students in a bid to stamp out abuse and attract more enrolments. More...

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27 août 2018

Call for sweeping changes in tertiary education system

By Geoff Maslen. The radical proposals are among a sweeping set of recommendations in a report by the multinational professional service company, KPMG. More...

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27 août 2018

Universities feel the brunt of a market-driven agenda

By Wachira Kigotho. A quarter of a century ago, Uganda’s Makerere University embarked on an academic journey hitherto undreamt of in Sub-Saharan Africa: intensive marketisation of higher education. More...

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27 août 2018

Should a degree be compulsory for parliamentarians?

By Damtew Teferra. At the 16th International Conference on Private Higher Education in Africa organised by Saint Mary’s University and held in Addis Ababa from 25 to 27 July 2018, I proposed that Ethiopian legislators must be holders of a bachelor degree. More...

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27 août 2018

A new approach to global research partnerships

By Mia Perry and Deepa Pullanikkatil. Since the 1940s major world powers like the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Nations have made moves to spread their scientific, economic, industrial and human rights progress to countries and regions that are seen as less developed, vulnerable or deprived in one way or another. More...

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27 août 2018

The African university

By Mahmood Mamdani. It is striking, in the postcolonial era, how little the modern African university has to do with African institutions. It draws its inspiration from the colonial period and takes as its model the discipline based, gated community that maintained a distinction between clearly defined groups: administrators, academics and fee-paying students.
The origins of this arrangement lay in 19th-century Berlin, and Humboldt University, founded in 1810 in the aftermath of Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. The African university makes its appearance later in the 19th century. At the southern end of the continent, colleges were started from scratch – Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Witwatersrand. In the north, existing institutions such as al-Azhar in Cairo, a centre of Islamic scholarship, were “modernised” and new disciplines introduced. More...

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