By Louise Vincent. A large body of research shows that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are often able to express their sexuality and confirm their sexual identity for the first time when they go to university. More...

By Akanimo Odon. Private universities are mushrooming across Africa. This growth is largely a response to the continent’s soaring demand for higher education. More...

By Laura Czerniewicz. If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each country produced, it would take on a rather bizarre, uneven appearance. The Northern hemisphere would balloon beyond recognition. The global south, including Africa, would effectively melt off the map. More...

By Samuel Ouma Oyoo. Mother tongue education has long been a political hot potato in South Africa. This started with the 1976 Soweto uprisings when school children staged protests after Afrikaans became the medium of instruction. More...

By Volker Wedekind. South Africa’s Department of Basic Education has a plan to address the country’s youth unemployment crisis and its skills shortage. A task team established by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has proposed that learners who leave the formal school system at the end of Grade 9 be awarded an exit certificate. More...

By Suellen Shay. It is critically important that we decolonise South Africa’s universities. This will involve creating a radically altered curriculum and producing a genuinely diversified academic population. More...

By Moyra Keane. Is indigenous knowledge important in education? Can it be discussed in the formal science curriculum?
I posed this question to university foundation students for a research project into place-based science learning. The group of about 18 isiZulu-speaking students told me one after the other that their “local knowledge” was irrelevant. More...

By Roger Williamson. Great things are happening in African universities. There is a new mood of determination in higher education institutions across the continent, from South Africa to Ghana to Uganda and in many places in between. Special metrics are being developed to measure African universities' performances in the global higher education landscape. More...