By Nic Mitchell. Germany and the Netherlands are stepping up their game to capture a bigger slice of the transnational education or TNE market, a conference launching a new international TNE-Hub heard on 10 June. Read more...

By Zuleika Arashiro. Most universities that claim international status now refer to the internationalisation of their student profile and academic staff as indicators of their achievements. Read more...

Cooperation in fields of scientific research between Côte d’Ivoire and the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, or IRD, has shown positive results, said Professor Bakayoko Ly Ramata, the Ivorian minister for higher education and scientific research. Read more...

By Henry Fram Akplu. Over the past quarter century, higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa has recorded phenomenal increases in the number of institutions and student enrolments, due largely to the deregulation of provision. Read more...

By Renu Modi and Rhea D’Silva. Africans come to India for various reasons: informal trade, higher education and healthcare. Medical tourism is marketed aggressively throughout Africa because it generates significant profits for the Indian healthcare sector. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. The 55-page paper, titled “Governance and Change Management Imperatives for the Transformation of Nigerian Universities from Early 21st Century to 22nd Century and beyond, Universities”, was sent to some senior academics in various disciplines in different universities for their evaluation of Afolabi’s solutions to the problems confronting universities. Read more...

By Robtel Neajai Pailey. Africans have always produced knowledge about Africa. Their contributions have in some cases been “preferably unheard”. In others they’ve been “deliberately silenced”. Read more...

By Sharon Dell. South African universities of technology are positioning themselves as critical partners in what is considered a fairly new but highly relevant area of research, innovation and job creation: waste recycling and management, an industry conservatively estimated by the government to be worth R25 billion (US$1.6 billion) per annum. Read more...

By Wagdy Sawahel. The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie or AUF has launched a virtual repository of educational resources called ‘meta-portal IDNEUF’ to provide free access to Francophone university resources. The global launch was held in Mali – Africa is the continent with the largest number of French speakers, 96.2 million. Read more...

By Wagdy Sawahel. Egypt plans to designate 2017 as a year of African cooperation in higher education, research and innovation with a view to enhancing the capacity of universities, increasing academic staff and student exchange, and promoting joint research and projects. Read more...