By Brendan O’Malley. A global fund for higher education in emergencies should be established to enable alternative provision to be made during times of war and other disasters, participants at the British Council’s Going Global conference for leaders of international education were told on 2 June. Read more...

By Brendan O’Malley. Eleven million young people will be joining the jobs market every year for the next decade in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The population of the region will grow from 1.2 billion in 2010 to 2 billion in 2050 and 70% of those will be under 25. Read more...

Some 350 higher education lecturers and researchers attended Morocco’s First Forum of Scientific Research to discuss their experiences, present research findings and – especially – promote multidisciplinarity. Read more...

By Stella-Maris Orim. Plagiarism is an issue of concern in institutions of learning across the world. There are several widely held ideas about plagiarism in Nigeria, but they have not been substantiated because of a lack of empirical findings. However, a recently completed doctoral research project on student plagiarism in Nigerian universities has thrown more light on the matter. Read more...

By Nicola Jenvey. South Africa needed 14% of gross domestic product generated by entrepreneurs to achieve the economic growth rates essential for sustainability and development – and entrepreneurship was a skill universities could be training students – the 17th annual African Renaissance conference heard in Durban recently. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Africa largely missed the analogue technology revolution 50 years ago. Experts say the digital age will come to an end faster. There is a need to position Africa to catch up with information and communication technology and be viewed as a global player, said Thierry Zomahoun, president and CEO of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, or AIMS. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. African researchers have been urged to seek inspiration from indigenous knowledge and innovation systems in order to make headway in resolving the continent’s development problems. Read more...

By Francis Kokutse. Vice-chancellors of public universities in Ghana and directors of French engineering schools have signed an agreement on mutual recognition of studies and qualifications that will enable Ghanaian students to study more easily in France, and French students to study in Ghana. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. Barely a week before handing over power to Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari, former president Goodluck Jonathan hurriedly approved the creation of five new universities. In a show of unanimous displeasure, lecturers rejected the new institutions, believing that they will create more problems for existing universities already groaning under dwindling funding. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Universities in Southern Africa would have opportunities to reduce social and economic exclusion if they improved engagement with marginalised communities as a means to promote innovation for inclusive development. Read more...