By Sharon Dell – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Steve Sharra argues that a mindset shift is needed if Malawi is to increase its higher education enrolment rate and meet its sustainable development targets.
   In Africa Features, Tunde Fatunde canvasses responses to the Nigerian government’s puzzling announcement of the dates for the screening examinations for university candidates – examinations which were put on hold by a court order earlier this year; while Munyaradzi Makoni examines a recent report by the Academy of Science of South Africa which calls for a ‘reconceptualisation’ of healthcare education and training in South Africa.
   In News from around the continent, Francis Kokutse reports on the establishment of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission which is to regulate all tertiary institutions in Ghana and will help to speed up the establishment of qualifying private universities; Steve Sharra writes about the formation of an association of universities and colleges in Malawi that aims to advance the interests of higher education in the country; and Gilbert Nakweya writes about the launch of a new open access database to raise the visibility of African education research.
   In our World Blog this week, Hans de Wit says the dynamics of international student mobility have intensified and become more diverse and complex over the past 10 years, but the push and pull factors for mobility have not changed. More...

In spite of the proliferation of universities in Nigeria, national development goals have not been met, the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ University of Lagos Chapter has said, reports Premium Times. More...

What South Africa's universities have become over the past years is utterly sickening – the inclusion of the ‘people of colour’ (POC) supper, exclusively for black people, in the Decolonial Winter School programme at the University of Cape Town last week was indicative of the shameful mess our universities have turned into, writes Phumlani Majozi for News24. More...

African universities’ contribution to society, and policy formulation in particular, is not sufficiently visible to the general public. This is partly because university scientists and researchers have challenges in communicating the information they gather and the knowledge they generate for informing decision-making and consequently national development, writes Maureen Agena for Daily Monitor. More...

By Ekua Nuama Bentil. The future of Africa will be shaped by two dynamics. First, how well its leaders prepare for the fastest population growth rate in the world. And second, how well they do in creating the right opportunities for its young citizens. More...

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. Higher and tertiary education students in Zimbabwe have a real opportunity to make their mark in the 2018 harmonised elections on 30 July which pundits say will be heavily influenced by the youth vote. More...

By Alex Abutu. An informal survey by University World News reveals that a 2017 directive from the National Universities Commission of Nigeria that mandated each university to admit a maximum of 50 students for each undergraduate course per year has long been abandoned. More...