By Nontobeko Mtshali. As university application deadlines for first-year entrants start drawing to a close, the Department of Higher Education and Training is readying itself to provide alternatives for the hundreds of thousands of prospective students who’ll be left out in the cold.
The number of applications received by many of the major universities have already far exceeded the number of spaces available - despite the fact that there are still four weeks to go before deadline at the end of September.
In Gauteng, Wits University has received more than 34 000 first-year applications. The institution, however, can only accommodate 5 500 first-year students. Read more...
By Wachira Kigotho. The Ministry of Education in Kenya has directed universities to shut campuses and constituent colleges that are situated near rubbish dumps, quarries or factories.University World News is delighted to announce the ‘soft’ launch of an African higher education jobs site. Universities across Africa – and indeed those around the world – looking to recruit academics and higher education professionals are now easily able to post job ads, at very reasonable prices and reaching a large audience, on the Higher Education in Africa Recruitment, or HEAR, site. People looking for jobs may post their CVs for free.
Etwa 25.000 Schulabsolventen sind im afrikanischen Liberia am Zulassungtest der staatlichen Uni gescheitert. Bestanden hat keiner. Studentenvertreter protestieren, die Bildungsministerin vergleicht die Ergebnisse mit bildungspolitischem Massenmord.
Rund 25.000 Schulabgänger haben den Zulassungstest der Universität von Liberia geschrieben - zunächst hatte keiner von ihnen bestanden. Den Schülern mangele es an Enthusiasmus und grundlegenden Englischkenntnissen, sagte ein Uni-Mitarbeiter der BBC. Bereits in der vergangenen Woche lud die Universität, eine von zwei staatlichen Unis in dem afrikanischen Land, zu einer Pressekonferenz, berichtet die örtliche Zeitung "The News". Mehr...
The Africa Higher Education Collaborative is a programme of the Institute of International Education and identifies strategies for increasing equity and access to higher education in Africa. AHEC seeks to accomplish this task by serving as a think tank and source of information for policy makers, practitioners and the interested public. The link address is: http://www.africahighered.org/
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The Pan African University has received a major boost with a grant support of US$45 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB), according to a statement from the African Union received by PANA on Thursday.
The agreement was signed in Tunis on Tuesday by the AU Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology, Mr Martial de Paul Ikounga, and the Vice President for Agriculture, Human Development and Governance of AfDB, Mr Aly Abou-Sabaa.
The Pan African University is a flagship programme of the African Union, which aims at ensuring that the African University is re-established at the core of Africa’s development, as a veritable instrument for achieving the AU vision of prosperity, peace and integration.
The statement said PAU’s mission was to exemplify excellence and nurture quality in African Higher Education and Research. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. An all-Africa higher education summit is to be held next year, bringing together stakeholders from across the continent to develop a charter and programme of action aimed at revitalising the sector. Another goal will be to build an advocacy alliance for higher education. Akwasi Aidoo, executive secretary of TrustAfrica, told University World News that the summit would be held in Dakar, Senegal, probably in October or November next year. TrustAfrica is a philanthropy, governance and development NGO based in Dakar. More...
By Peta Lee. Preliminary findings of the Higher Education Leadership Programme in Africa – HELP – have revealed numerous weaknesses and impediments hindering the governance and leadership of African universities. Also highlighted were gender issues and state interference. Now in its second year, the project of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, or CODESRIA, has so far commissioned 12 different research networks. More...There appears to be growing willingness in Africa to provide better oversight to higher education institutions. But academics, including vice-chancellors, are “not taking up the challenge to domesticate and harness the spaces they are given”. This was one of the lessons learned at a convening of higher education leaders and researchers from across the continent.TrustAfrica, a pan-African foundation launched six years ago in Senegal, has been organising higher education dialogues in several African countries to provide a neutral and safe space for conversations on higher education transformation./https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
