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27 août 2018

Should a degree be compulsory for parliamentarians?

By Damtew Teferra. At the 16th International Conference on Private Higher Education in Africa organised by Saint Mary’s University and held in Addis Ababa from 25 to 27 July 2018, I proposed that Ethiopian legislators must be holders of a bachelor degree. More...

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27 août 2018

A new approach to global research partnerships

By Mia Perry and Deepa Pullanikkatil. Since the 1940s major world powers like the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Nations have made moves to spread their scientific, economic, industrial and human rights progress to countries and regions that are seen as less developed, vulnerable or deprived in one way or another. More...

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27 août 2018

The African university

By Mahmood Mamdani. It is striking, in the postcolonial era, how little the modern African university has to do with African institutions. It draws its inspiration from the colonial period and takes as its model the discipline based, gated community that maintained a distinction between clearly defined groups: administrators, academics and fee-paying students.
The origins of this arrangement lay in 19th-century Berlin, and Humboldt University, founded in 1810 in the aftermath of Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. The African university makes its appearance later in the 19th century. At the southern end of the continent, colleges were started from scratch – Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Witwatersrand. In the north, existing institutions such as al-Azhar in Cairo, a centre of Islamic scholarship, were “modernised” and new disciplines introduced. More...

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27 août 2018

PAU appeals for patience as applications flood in

By Maina Waruru. The Pan African University (PAU) has appealed to applicants for patience after it received over 13,000 applications for its 400 places in its various thematic institutes located in Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria for the upcoming academic year of 2018-19. The total of 13,048 applications is the highest number since the institution became operational in 2012. More...

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27 août 2018

President suspends vice-chancellor over Grace Mugabe PhD

By Kudzai Mashininga. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has suspended University of Zimbabwe Vice-chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura for allegedly awarding former first lady Grace Mugabe a doctor of philosophy degree ‘corruptly’ in 2014. More...

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27 août 2018

Qualifications database falters over lack of funds

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya’s bid to set up a national platform for graduate information has hit a snag over lack of funds, setting back the bid to crack down on the proliferation of sub-standard qualifications in the higher education sector. More...

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27 août 2018

Top university adopts austerity measures to stem decline

By Gilbert Nganga. The University of Nairobi, Kenya’s oldest and most decorated public university, has announced several austerity measures to manage a biting financial crunch and tame a huge deficit that promises to bring down the university. This has been made worse by rapidly declining student numbers, especially in respect of its former cash-cow: the self-sponsored student programme. More...

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27 août 2018

Global network to boost HE capacity and PhD numbers

By Primarashni Gower. The organising members of the United States-South Africa Higher Education Network, launched in Johannesburg recently, are Rutgers University-Newark, the University of Pretoria (UP), the University of Venda, and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), which provided seed funding for the initiative. More...

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27 août 2018

One person arrested in masters-for-money scandal

By Wagdy Sawahel. A person has been arrested and a senior member of Transparency Maroc has been suspended from the association in the wake of allegations that students were being asked to pay over US$4,000 to guarantee a place on a university masters course in Morocco. More...

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27 août 2018

New masters to boost machine intelligence talent pool

By Esther Nakkazi. A new African masters in machine intelligence funded by Google and Facebook seeks to create a community of machine intelligence (MI) practitioners in Africa to reduce the technology gap, build Africa’s economies and ultimately promote better governance. More...

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