Shift in Norway-funded graduate training helps curb Africa brain drain

By Karen MacGregor. In Africa Features, Munyaradzi Makoni outlines a study of Norwegian-funded postgraduate training programmes in the developing world whose design appears to help curb brain drain, as well as a new report that finds failure on the part of South Africa’s extensive skills training reforms to deliver enough college graduates with much-needed skills.
In Commentary, Michael Schwartz and William M Bowen describe authoritarianism in the American academy and how it is capable of limiting or even blocking the right to dissent. Anna Magyar and Anna Robinson-Pant argue that student recruitment agents should be seen as part of a collective approach to internationalisation.
Angel Calderon writes that the killing of Mexican student protesters in Iguala last September has sparked uproar and created instability in a region where a long history of student activism has been a catalyst for progress. And in World Blog, Rajesh Tandon and Wafa Singh argue that a new scheme in India involving centres for community-university engagement has the potential to transform both communities and universities if deployed strategically. Read more...