By Sharon Dell – Editor. In Africa Features, Edwin Naidu writes about plans by Universities South Africa, the body representing vice-chancellors of the country’s public universities, to investigate the gender imbalance at senior management levels of universities; while John Agaba highlights moves in Uganda by frustrated professional bodies in the health sector to introduce exit examinations for university graduates in a bid to improve the quality of graduates entering the health professions; and Tunde Fatunde provides an update on the detention of six Cameroonian academics deported from Nigeria earlier this year.In Africa Analysis, Oliver Mutanga, Bothwell Manyonga and Sindile Ngubane-Mokiwa raise some of their concerns about the new South African higher education disability policy, while Wondwosen Tamrat discusses the need to address the issue of substance abuse at institutions of higher education in Ethiopia.
In News from around the continent, Wagdy Sawahel reports on the surprise axing of Somalia’s higher education minister last week, Gilbert Nganga reports on moves by the Kenyan government to clamp down on graft in the public sector, including higher education, and Rodrigue Rwirahira writes on attempts by a PhD candidate in Rwanda to stop his research from being sabotaged by a proposed government tender.
In our World Blog this week, Marguerite J Dennis, inspired by the book Factfulness, urges universities to base their decisions on facts rather than perceived ideas and one-dimensional statistics when planning for a future of global collaboration and international student recruitment. More...
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