And we must also ask how well the National Development Plan articulates higher education's role. There is increasing evidence that high levels of educational attainment contribute to global competitiveness and sustainable socioeconomic development. This has resulted in a number of countries placing higher education at the core of their development strategies. In this context, one may legitimately ask how South Africa measures up and whether the government's National Development Plan (NDP), released in 2012, articulates the role of higher education in contributing to achieving the ambitious goals and targets outlined for 2030. More...

Vice president Manuel Domingos Vicente travelled this Friday morning to the eastern Moxico Province, where he will chair, in Luena City, the official opening ceremony of the Higher Education sector's 2014 academic term. More...

By Clement Idoko-Abuja. CLEMENT IDOKO, just returning from Ghana, writes on the influx of Nigerian students in pursuit of “Degree Mills” in Ghana, concluding that these quack institutions take advantage of the incessant strikes and disruption of academic calendar in Nigeria coupled with lack of access to tertiary institutions to defraud the parents and students. The fate of thousands of Nigerian students pursuing various degrees in mushroom and “degree mills” in Ghana is precariously hanging in the balance. More...