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20 octobre 2013

Postgraduates – Getting lost in a bureaucratic maze?

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nicola Jenvey. A study by South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal has outlined the importance of providing postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows with sufficient administrative support, as a way to boost the numbers willing to continue their education and research at the institution. More...
20 octobre 2013

Foreign lecturers recruited despite security concerns

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Tunde Fatunde. The executive governor of Yobe state in north-east Nigeria, who is also a visitor at Bukar Abba Ibrahim University, has approved the employment of 35 professors from India and the Philippines. They were recruited ostensibly to teach and research desert encroachment, which is threatening the environment in parts of the state. Although the state is committed to building a 21st century university, it has been unable to recruit any competent Nigerians due to security fears and ideological challenges posed by Boko Haram, an Islamic sect opposing so-called ‘Western’ education, including academic programmes in the state-owned university. More...
20 octobre 2013

University seeks solutions to massive e-waste problem

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Wachira Kigotho. The rising tide of mobile telephony in Kenya, which currently stands at about 30 million subscribers, is becoming a significant source of e-waste. Obsolete computers, televisions and electronic equipment are exacerbating the problem. Now a university has stepped in to help clean it all up. According to Joseph Tiampati, the government’s principal secretary for information, communication and technology, the imminent switching off of the analogue television broadcasting system was also expected to increase domestically generated e-waste. More...
20 octobre 2013

China inaugurates Confucius Institute, builds library

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Fortune Sylivester. The Chinese influence in Tanzania seems to be growing by the day. The University of Dar es Salaam is to start offering courses in the Chinese language through a new Confucius Institute, and China is building a state-of-the-art library and a secondary school. The development at the country’s oldest higher education institution came barely six months after the University of Dodoma signed an agreement with the Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management to establish a Confucius Institute. More...
18 octobre 2013

Rwanda: Students Move to Ease Access to Scholarships

http://allafrica.com/static/images/publishers/minibanners/newtimes180.jpgNowadays, many people are increasingly aspiring for an education in more diverse communities. Over the past years, many Rwandans have been attending schools in the East African Community, North Africa, Europe, America, etc.
However, most institutions require some common standardised tests for the college admissions process.
Recently, Rwandan students in Diaspora started a nonprofit organisation to help students back home to prepare for standardised tests and increase their chances to pursue higher education.

13 octobre 2013

Bringing Universities to Refugee Camps in Kenya

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gifBy Ginanne Brownell. The Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya sit in a bleak landscape; remote, dusty and arid, they are sun-scorched by day and whipped by fierce dust storms that blow up seemingly out of nowhere. The first three camps were opened in the early 1990s, when the civil war in Somalia brought thousands streaming across the border. Two more camps have since mushroomed out of the desert. In total they are home to about 500,000 people, making them the largest refugee complex in the world. More...

13 octobre 2013

Migration and brain drain from Africa acute – Report

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Wachira Kigotho. One in every nine people who are born in Africa and have a university degree is a migrant in one of the 34 member states of the OECD – the world’s most developed countries.
According to a joint report on global migration released by the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs, or UN DESA, and the OECD secretariat, there are about 30 million African migrants out of the global total of 232 million migrants. Read more...
13 octobre 2013

Fellows initiative taps diaspora to support African HE

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Karen MacGregor. A new scholar exchange initiative offering 100 fellowships to African-born academics living in North America, to work in and forge research partnerships with African universities, has been launched by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The ambitious aim is “to turn the continent’s ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain gain’”...
The two-year Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows Program will be managed and administered by the New York-based Institute of International Education. Read more...
11 octobre 2013

INHEA publishes "Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa"

http://www.guninetwork.org/guni.hednews/hednews/inhea-launches-the-chronicle-of-african-higher-education/image_thumbThe book, which comprises 14 Chapters and an Index, is expected to be released on 25 September 2013.
The International Network for Higher Education in Africa (INHEA) announces the publication of "Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" an outcome two years of OSSREA-commissioned study. The 372-page book, published by Palgrave MacMillan, explores and analyses the state of funding and financing higher education in nine Sub-Saharan African countries.
To echo the words of Professor Philip G. Altbach--Director of the Center for International Higher Education who contributed the Foreword, the "book makes an impressive contribution to two key areas of Africa's higher education development: a better understanding of patterns of funding and the need to improve deeper research on African higher education."
The research and publication of this book were made possible through grants by the Danish International Development Agency, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and the Swedish Agency for International Development. For more information, follow this link.

7 octobre 2013

Re-envisioning higher education through curriculum reform

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Karen MacGregor. Structural obstacles to improving graduation rates in South Africa, where half of all students drop out, cannot be tackled effectively without increasing the duration of programmes. A high-level investigation into the curriculum, which recently proposed introducing four-year degrees, has relevance for all societies with deep inequalities – especially the developing world – according to one of its authors, Professor Ian Scott of the University of Cape Town. More...
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