By Stephanie Rudwick. The status of languages is a political hot potato on South Africa’s university campuses. The country’s minister of higher education and training believes that all university graduates in South Africa should have learned at least one African language during their studies. More...

By Moses Ngware. There is a new brand of educational entrepreneur emerging in Nairobi’s slums: privately owned and run schools that promise particularly poor children a good education at little cost. More...

By Ruksana Osman. If one were to measure an education system’s strength purely on access, South Africa would be a schooling success story. Since the end of apartheid in 1994 there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children attending primary and secondary school. University enrolments are also up. More...

By Marcia Lyner-Cleophas. There is no doubt that technology can make learning easier. Telematics allows a lecturer to stand in one place and present a class to satellite campuses anywhere in the world. Podcasts are also becoming a popular educational tool. More...

By David J Hornsby. You don’t have to suffer from glossophobia to hyperventilate at the thought of standing up in front of a large hall full of people. Many university lecturers dread the thought of teaching a large class. More...

By Nicola de Jager. There has been a flurry of condemnation in South Africa after the acting president of the University of Cape Town’s Student Representative Council declared her concern with same-sex marriage in a Facebook post. More...

By Dilip Menon. In South Africa’s bad old days white people spoke English or Afrikaans. These were the languages of command. When needing to engage with those who didn’t speak English, whites could use Fanagalo – a pidgin based on Zulu and peppered with English and some Afrikaans. It was developed on the country’s mines and was good for giving orders, if not having a conversation. More...

By David J Hornsby. Students at the University of Cape Town created the Rhodes Must Fall movement in early 2015. Their campaign for institutional transformation has been mimicked elsewhere, even reaching Oxford University. More...

By Oliver Seale and Michael Cross. University deans may be “the least studied and most misunderstood position anywhere in the world”, according to educationalist Walter Gmelch. Our research confirms this – and suggests that far more ought to be known about this critical academic leadership role. More...

By Mokubung Nkomo, Angelica Warchal and Ndivhuho Tshikovhi. Africa’s universities are attracting more and more students each year. In some cases these numbers are being driven by government policies designed to make universities more attractive among young people. In others, like Niger, degree systems have been overhauled to draw more students to tertiary education. More...