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9 février 2018

British universities to set up campuses in Egypt

Campuses for British universities could soon spring up in Egypt after the United Kingdom signed an agreement with the country’s education ministry that will remove barriers that prevented such institutions from expanding there, reports The National. More...

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9 février 2018

Regulator to decide whether all lecturers need PhDs

The higher education regulator in Kenya is set to make a major decision on whether to do away with or retain requirements demanding that only PhD holders teach in universities – requirements that were due to come into effect by the end of this year, writes Ouma Wanzala for the Daily Nation. More...

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9 février 2018

Oxford University gives women more time to write exams

Oxford University exam times were increased in a bid to improve the low scores of women, writes Tony Diver for The Telegraph. More...

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9 février 2018

Chief justice orders halt to any new law colleges

Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar issued an order recently prohibiting universities across the country from granting affiliation to new law colleges, at the same time barring high courts and subordinate courts from issuing a stay order on the case, writes Saifullah Cheema for Dawn. More...

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9 février 2018

Education minister calls evolution ‘scientifically wrong’

A new front has opened in the war on science in India. India’s minister for higher education, Satyapal Singh, recently took aim at the theory of evolution, writes Pallava Bagla for Science. More...

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9 février 2018

China on verge of becoming a scientific superpower

The United States National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial Science and Engineering Indicators, a voluminous document describing the state of American technology. There are facts and figures on research and development, innovation and engineers. But the report’s main conclusion lies elsewhere: China has become – or is on the verge of becoming – a scientific and technical superpower, writes Robert J Samuelson for The Washington Post. More...

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9 février 2018

Report reveals taxi industry hampering HE enrolment

On the very day Liberia inaugurated its new president and vice-president, a civil society organisation released what it calls useful data to support the new government’s education and youth development programmes. Among such data is the finding that the commercial taxi driving industry is hampering young people’s pursuit of higher education, writes Toweh Alphonso for The New Republic. More...

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9 février 2018

Carnegie supports RUFORUM post-doctoral fellowships

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a network of 85 universities supporting capacity-building for agricultural training in Africa, has received a US$1.5 million grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support its post-doctoral fellowship programme on the continent. More...

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9 février 2018

Pan African University to craft strategic plan

The Pan African University (PAU) is developing a strategic plan to help guide its activities over the next five years and identify key priorities, including resource mobilisation and how to offer relevant training. More...

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9 février 2018

Partnership launches network to boost HE online courses

REAMOOC is coordinated by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and Belgium’s Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and jointly financed by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme which is contributing €870,000 (US$1 million) to the project. More...

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