By Ishmael Munene. Hardly a fortnight passes in Kenya without some allegation of financial impropriety emerging from its public universities. More...

By Talita M.L. Calitz. There are more black African students from poor or working-class backgrounds at South Africa’s universities than ever before. But research shows that very few of them actually finish their degrees. Many drop out at undergraduate level. More...

By Savo Heleta. Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. More...

By Jo-Anne Vorster and Lynn Quinn. It seems almost certain that South Africa’s universities cannot return to “business as usual” after the student protests that marked 2015. Some have asked what academics will learn from the protests and how they will - or won’t - alter their practice in classrooms. More...

By Elizabeth de Kadt and Brenda Leibowitz. Academics in South Africa have perhaps more responsibility than ever before. The country’s universities are in flux. Enrolment rates have more than doubled since formal apartheid ended in 1994. More...

By Orla Quinlan and Darla K. Deardorff. Universities are diverse spaces. Their students are of different races and religions, belong to different socioeconomic groups and are even geographically different: some come from cities, others from rural areas and still more from completely different countries. With such exposure to difference, students have the unique opportunity to learn from others. More...

By Catriona Macleod and Kim Barker. Rape is never far from the headlines in South Africa. But while protests about corruption and service delivery are common, sexual violence is not an issue that often brings people to the streets. A university in one of the country’s small towns is changing this. More...

By Jeff Grabill. The SAT, the test that many schools require to check for college readiness, has recently gone through a makeover. Perhaps the most significant change is to the writing portion of the SAT, which presents students with new and more complex reading and and writing challenges. More...

By Alison Gash. Transgender students’ access to bathrooms is an increasingly active front for LGBTQ rights battles. Recent calls for safer bathrooms have inspired “shit-ins” at California Polytechnic and San Diego State, where transgender advocates asked student allies to use only gender-neutral restrooms. In April last year, “urine” blockades confronted Berkeley students at Sather Gate, the main entrance to campus. More...

By Robert Kelchen and Luke J. Stedrak. States have traditionally provided funding for public colleges and universities based on a combination of the number of students enrolled and how much money they were allocated previously.
But, in the face of increasingly tight budgets and pressures to demonstrate their effectiveness to legislators, more and more states are tying at least some higher education funding to student outcomes. More...