Universities are in a race against time to address transformation on campuses. Higher education and race relations experts have warned that failure to do so will allow tension between students of different races to deepen, write Jan-Jan Joubert, Shenaaz Jamal, Leonie Wagner, Neo Goba and Jerome Cornelius for Times Live. Read more...
By Chris Havergal. Former presidential candidate says institutions must deliver courses more cheaply and that student loan burden must be eased. More...
By Esther Nakkazi. Public universities in Uganda have resumed full operation after several weeks of industrial action. Non-teaching staff had laid down their tools citing low pay and anger over government action to raise lecturer salaries but not theirs. Read more...
By Tunde Fatunde. A government plan to withdraw funding from university-based primary schools and demonstration secondary schools on all campuses in Nigeria has met with sharp resistance from parents, some university staff, university-based unions and university management. Read more...
By Wagdy Sawahel. A new collaborative masters degree to develop Africa’s next generation of public policy leaders has been initiated by the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, or PASGR, in cooperation with 12 universities in seven African countries. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Nico Cloete draws on data and arguments from a forthcoming book on the doctorate in South Africa to illustrate how unhelpful the raging ‘transformation’ of higher education debate has become. Meanwhile, there have been campus upheavals over racism and student politics, according to Munyaradzi Makoni.
Damtew Teferra criticises Times Higher Education for not including critical African players in the recent Africa Universities Summit, which included a consultation on regional university rankings.
In Africa Features, Wachira Kigotho reveals ahead of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 in New York that African delegations will push hard for robust support for tertiary education and science, technology and innovation.
This week in Commentary, Philip G Altbach argues that in the current (modest) revival of liberal arts globally, rich non-Western educational traditions have been largely ignored.
Ielyzaveta Shchepetylnykova charts challenges and progress in Ukraine’s efforts to implement the Bologna process and improve higher education data and analysis. And Marguerite Dennis and Richard Lynch contend that universities need to adopt ‘blue ocean’ thinking and strategies for a higher education future that is likely to be online and international. Read more...
By . Most of the young people who matriculate in South Africa and qualify on paper to apply to study further simply aren’t ready for the rigours of a university education. This isn’t a sweeping generalisation: it’s proved by data collected over five years as part of the country’s National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy. More...By . South Africa’s government wants to make it easier for more people to enrol in higher education. Part of its mission is to improve access for adults who are already working but wish to qualify for either a first or further tertiary qualification. The reasons for this relate to issues of redress and provision of lifelong learning opportunities for economic, social and personal development. More...
By Marta Vicente-Crespo. A small institute in Kampala is cultivating a regional network of researchers, using an inexpensive lab model based on the fruit fly. More...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Policies on the accessibility of skills and knowledge, the location of industry and networks of local companies could boost the impact of higher education on economic development, says a report published last month in the International Journal of Educational Development. Read more...
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