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3 avril 2018

‘A cloudy but promising journey’

By Tunde Fatunde. Every day, journalists wake up in search of news. The beginning of this journey is usually cloudy and uncertain. As unwavering optimists, however, journalists are reasonably confident that their day will yield positive results. At times this cloudy but promising journey ends, as does life, in unpredictable disasters and accidents. However, for those who survive the vagaries, the journey goes on. More...

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3 avril 2018

The ongoing project of ‘reimagining’ higher education

By Ahmed Bawa. On 3 February 1995, President Nelson R Mandela signed into being the National Commission on Higher Education with the purpose of producing a plan for the transformation of South Africa’s university system and the individual institutions within it. More...

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3 avril 2018

TVET – The new stepbrother to higher education?

By Damtew Teferra. “It would be wiser not to talk about higher education exclusively [at the upcoming dialogue] but [also] rather TVET”… so that there would be “more appetite to support higher education than TVET”. More...

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3 avril 2018

HERANA – 10 years of growing research universities

By Nico Cloete and Francois van Schalkwyk. During the early 2000s, a broad agreement emerged that higher education was important for development in Africa, although there were multiple, often competing, discourses about the roles of universities in relation to development. Within this zeitgeist, a number of development aid agencies agreed that a different, more collaborative approach to linking higher education and development was required. More...

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3 avril 2018

What do the next 10 years hold for higher education?

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. When the Africa edition of University World News first appeared in 2008, the initial issues provided greater focus on matters related to higher education in South Africa; this was understandable since it was sponsored by what was then the South African-based Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET). More...

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3 avril 2018

UWN – Tracking the key issues in higher education

By Teboho Moja. It was a bold move made by a group of journalists committed to reporting on education that led to the establishment of an e-newspaper focusing specifically on higher education. The establishment of University World News (UWN), and its Africa edition one year later, was timely because of tremendous changes in the field of higher education that were taking place worldwide. More...

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3 avril 2018

A lifetime of University World News – Africa

By Karen MacGregor. Often time flashes by. But it feels like a lifetime ago that University World News – Africa was launched on 30 March 2008. Perhaps this is because so much has happened in Africa over the past decade, especially in higher education, which has clocked the world’s highest regional enrolment growth rate and has expanded exponentially. There has been a research awakening, huge expansion of the private sector and higher education has ratcheted up the political agenda, with growing understanding of its key role in development. More...

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3 avril 2018

Changing the discourse on private higher education

By Wondwosen Tamrat and Damtew Teferra. The rise of private higher education in Africa has been mainly driven by such factors as the inability of the public sector to meet growing demands, strains on public finance that called for alternative sources of funding and consequent economic policies that led to structural reforms. More...

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3 avril 2018

After years of taxiing, higher education nears take-off

By Gilbert Nganga. On the evening of 13 May 2010, I received an email from Karen MacGregor, then the co-editor of University World News. She was looking for a stringer who could file stories on Kenya’s higher education sector for her weekly international online newspaper. More...

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3 avril 2018

Policy review may prompt cuts to university numbers

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya is set to substantially reduce the number of existing universities in the coming years, in a bid to safeguard faltering quality of learning arising from the mushrooming of institutions. More...

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