By Tunde Fatunde. A major topic tackled at the recent Association of Commonwealth Universities conference was opportunities and barriers in African higher education. Access for more of the continent’s fast-growing young population turned out to be both an opportunity and a challenge, while low funding was identified as the major obstacle. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. Historical injustice and reparations came under the spotlight at the recent Association of Commonwealth Universities conference, with calls made for greater support for student demands in South Africa and a ‘Marshall Plan’ to uplift the Caribbean region. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. The role of religious faith in combating extremism on university campuses was a central focus of two sessions at the Association of Commonwealth Universities or ACU conference, as participants reflected on the effects and implications of multiple terror attacks in 2015. Read more...

By Tunde Fatunde. Higher education has a leading role to play in championing the kind of gender equality that empowers both women and men, according to high-level participants in a ministerial panel held on the final day of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, or ACU, 2016 conference. Read more...

By Brennan Weiss. Corporate social responsibility has been a fixture in the business world for decades, and has become embedded in many universities as higher education leaders seek alternative ways to achieve sustainability. Read more...

By Brennan Weiss. Venture creation programmes are still somewhat novel in higher education. Relatively few universities offer real-world entrepreneurial degrees and their implementation is often complicated by a lack of funding and faculty motivation. Read more...

By Brennan Weiss. Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on universities around the world to promote democracy as growing inequality and intolerance threaten higher education globally. Read more...

By Wagdy Sawahel. Egypt’s cabinet has approved a draft bill to establish a space agency that will promote the development of space technology, science and engineering capacity, and space research and education in universities.
The draft law was approved on 3 August and enables the creation of Africa’s fourth space agency after South Africa, Nigeria and Algeria, according to international relations researcher Scott Firsing. Read more...

By Francis Kokutse. The growing number of unemployed graduates in Ghana is not because the country is producing too many graduates but because there is no manpower planning to feed sectors of the economy, says Clement Dzidonu, president of the Accra Institute of Technology. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. South African students, universities and colleges as well as banks and investors have been urged to assist in the search for “smarter solutions” to an ongoing, chronic shortage of student accommodation. Read more...