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22 mars 2015

Continental platform to accelerate science excellence

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa, or AESA, has started operations and there are plans to run funding grants before the end of the year. AESA is a pan-African platform to source funding for science and health research, created by the African Academy of Sciences and the New Partnership for Africa's Development agency. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Comment invited on African HE Summit declaration

Comment has been invited on the Draft Declaration and Action Plan of the 1st African Higher Education Summit on Revitalising Higher Education for Africa’s Future. As a media partner to the summit, University World News urges people working or interested in African higher education to respond. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Harmonisation of higher education speeds up

By Wachira Kigotho. Delegates attending the African Higher Education Summit held in Dakar, Senegal, agreed to promote harmonisation of the continent’s higher education systems through accreditation and mutual recognition of degrees, diplomas and certificates. Read more...
22 mars 2015

OPCA/OPACIF - Plafonnement des frais de gestion er d'information

http://www.adef06.org/resources/ARRIERE+PLAN.jpgOPCA/OPACIF - Plafonnement des frais de gestion er d'information
Publication de l’arrêté du 18 février 2015 relatif au plafonnement des frais de gestion et d'information et de frais de mission des organismes collecteurs agréés en application de l'article L. 6332-1 du code du travail
Publication de l’arrêté du 5 mars 2015 relatif au plafonnement des frais de gestion et d'information des organismes agréés en application des articles L. 6333-1 et L. 6333-2 du code du travail au titre du congé individuel de formation
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22 mars 2015

No agreed university governance model for post-2015 era

By Wachira Kigotho. Delegates at the first African Higher Education Summit in Dakar failed to agree on governance models that could be adopted by African universities in the post-2015 era. Although in the last two decades laws have been passed granting limited autonomy to public universities, many people observed that governments are still calling the shots. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Producing unemployable graduates wastes time and money

By Wachira Kigotho. Producing university graduates with degrees and skills that have limited practical use in Africa’s job markets constitutes a massive waste of time and money, according to Bridget Crompton, a senior education adviser at Britain’s Department for International Development. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Africa’s talent – More valuable than gold, diamonds, oil

By Karen MacGregor. “There will be no more important issue in the world – not energy, not oil, not water – than that of talent,” says Professor Phillip Clay, former chancellor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and a board member of the MasterCard Foundation. “The places that develop talent, motivate talent and use talent will be the places that move forward in the world.” This must be young Africa’s priority. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Lobbying for higher education on parallel agendas

By Damtew Teferra. At the recently concluded African Higher Education Summit in Dakar, the chair of the African Union Commission Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Senegalese President Macky Sall pledged to undertake a role of critical importance – to lobby their constituencies in support of revitalising higher education at an upcoming heads of state meeting in June 2015. Read more...
22 mars 2015

A pyramid without a higher education roof?

By John Kirkland OBE. One delegate at the African Higher Education Summit in Dakar warned that, unless higher education was given equal priority to that of the primary and secondary sectors, African education would be like a “pyramid without a roof”. What a wonderful analogy. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Strategies to help fund university enrolment expansion

By Wachira Kigotho. African countries have been urged to explore creative tax strategies as one way to improve the financing of universities. Dr Patrick Awuah, founder of the private Ashesi University in Ghana, told the African Higher Education Summit that to raise Africa’s enrolment ratio from around 7% to 30% meant governments would have to spend 50 times more on the sector. Read more...
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