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27 août 2018

PAU appeals for patience as applications flood in

By Maina Waruru. The Pan African University (PAU) has appealed to applicants for patience after it received over 13,000 applications for its 400 places in its various thematic institutes located in Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria for the upcoming academic year of 2018-19. The total of 13,048 applications is the highest number since the institution became operational in 2012. More...
27 août 2018

President suspends vice-chancellor over Grace Mugabe PhD

By Kudzai Mashininga. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has suspended University of Zimbabwe Vice-chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura for allegedly awarding former first lady Grace Mugabe a doctor of philosophy degree ‘corruptly’ in 2014. More...
27 août 2018

Qualifications database falters over lack of funds

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya’s bid to set up a national platform for graduate information has hit a snag over lack of funds, setting back the bid to crack down on the proliferation of sub-standard qualifications in the higher education sector. More...
27 août 2018

Top university adopts austerity measures to stem decline

By Gilbert Nganga. The University of Nairobi, Kenya’s oldest and most decorated public university, has announced several austerity measures to manage a biting financial crunch and tame a huge deficit that promises to bring down the university. This has been made worse by rapidly declining student numbers, especially in respect of its former cash-cow: the self-sponsored student programme. More...
27 août 2018

Global network to boost HE capacity and PhD numbers

By Primarashni Gower. The organising members of the United States-South Africa Higher Education Network, launched in Johannesburg recently, are Rutgers University-Newark, the University of Pretoria (UP), the University of Venda, and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), which provided seed funding for the initiative. More...
27 août 2018

One person arrested in masters-for-money scandal

By Wagdy Sawahel. A person has been arrested and a senior member of Transparency Maroc has been suspended from the association in the wake of allegations that students were being asked to pay over US$4,000 to guarantee a place on a university masters course in Morocco. More...
27 août 2018

New masters to boost machine intelligence talent pool

By Esther Nakkazi. A new African masters in machine intelligence funded by Google and Facebook seeks to create a community of machine intelligence (MI) practitioners in Africa to reduce the technology gap, build Africa’s economies and ultimately promote better governance. More...
27 août 2018

Scholarship programme supports youth with big dreams

By Esther Nakkazi. A scholarship programme targeting bright but disadvantaged young people is giving them a chance not only to succeed academically and professionally, but play a long-term role in uplifting their own communities. More...
27 août 2018

Government launches national qualifications framework

By Kudzai Mashininga. Zimbabwe has started implementing a new national qualifications framework which the government says will increase the accessibility, efficiency and relevance of its higher education sector within and outside the country. More...
27 août 2018

SADC approves new university to boost industrialisation

By Kudzai Mashininga. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has approved the establishment of the SADC University of Transformation to train citizens in innovation to facilitate industrialisation in the region. More...
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