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11 mai 2018

Lecturer strike means years of wasted time for students

By Christabel Ligami. Students pursuing certain programmes at Kenyan public universities have been unable to attend lectures consistently for more than a year owing to repeated strikes by lecturers over salaries and conditions of service. As a result, the quality of learning has been affected, not to mention the fact that the future of hundreds of young Kenyans hangs in the balance. More...

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11 mai 2018

Quality assurance – Guidelines for the ‘quiet revolution’

By Wagdy Sawahel. African universities have been urged to adopt and implement the newly-developed African Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ASG-QA) as part of a pan-continental move to improve higher education quality. More...

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11 mai 2018

Creating the conditions for student success

By Wendy Kilfoil. The publication comprises a series of chapters, focusing initially on a battery of student engagement surveys developed at the University of the Free State in collaboration with international partners. More...

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11 mai 2018

First-years are not arrogant, entitled or lazy – Survey

By Sharon Dell. Are South African universities making optimal use of the attitudes, aspirations, academic skills and resilience of their first-year students, or are they focused too closely on where students are perceived to be lacking. More...

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11 mai 2018

A court decision with consequences for languages in HE

By Rosemary Salomone. The 26 April decision of the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria upholding English-only courses at the University of South Africa (UNISA) is yet another sign that Afrikaans is losing its status in post-apartheid South Africa. More...

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11 mai 2018

Do students have a say in university governance?

By Wondwosen Tamrat. One of the principles of good governance in higher education is the concept of shared governance or distributed leadership. This requires the representation of various stakeholders, including students, in the decision-making processes of universities. More...

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11 mai 2018

CESA, not SDG4 – A guide for the continent’s aspirations

By Damtew Teferra. In a number of my articles and at different events, I have highlighted what I regard as the tenuous stance on higher education taken by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), even though my critiques have been tempered by the fact that the SDGs are more favourable to higher education than the erstwhile Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). More...

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11 mai 2018

Open university set to meet growing demand for HE

By Francis Kokutse. Open universities are helping to increase access to higher education across Africa as it becomes more apparent that the demand for brick-and-mortar facilities cannot be met by resource-constrained governments, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Laweh Open University College, Josiah Cobbah, told University World News. More...

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11 mai 2018

Universities can help to stem migration – Academic

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. Higher institutions of learning can stop migration and the export of higher-level skills by training students and other populations to influence and change their political, social and economic environments, a senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe has said. More...

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11 mai 2018

High student interest spurs new advanced Chinese course

By Rodrigue Rwirahira. He is among a growing number of young Rwandans choosing to study Chinese through the Confucius Institute based at the University of Rwanda. More...

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