New university to be Africa’s ‘rival to Harvard’

By Andiswa Maqutu. HIGH school graduates in South Africa and the rest of the continent will soon have an additional university choice as a network of 25 pan-African universities, aimed to rival the likes of Harvard and Yale, is due to come on stream. The first campus will open in Mauritius next year, says Fred Swaniker, co-founder of the Joburg-based African Leadership Academy (ALA), a high school that takes in talented but deprived students from across the continent. About 15% of pupils at ALA are from South Africa. More...