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1 septembre 2013

Policy dialogue prompts new vision, more HE interaction

By Karen MacGregor. Ghana is to hold biennial national higher education summits in order to institutionalise regular interaction among stakeholders, following a recent high-level policy dialogue held in the capital Accra. Participants also agreed to formulate a tertiary education vision and plan for the West African country. The dialogue was hosted by the Ministry of Education and the National Council for Tertiary Education, or NCTE, in partnership with Senegal-based TrustAfrica, and was held in Accra in May under the theme “Repositioning Tertiary Education for National Development”. More...

1 septembre 2013

Students and guardians reject new British visa bond

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Tunde Fatunde. There is palpable anger and disappointment among Nigerians who have gained admission to British universities for the upcoming academic session. Students already in UK institutions are also unhappy about a new ‘visa bond’ scheme to be implemented against ‘high risk’ visitors by the David Cameron administration.
The measure has already sown confusion among British admission agencies in Nigeria, who have worked hard to convince wealthy Nigerians to send their children to universities in the UK, and has thrown students interested in studying in the UK into a quandary.
The new visa scheme will impose £3,000 (US$4,740) in charges on unspecified visa applicants thought to be ‘high risk visitors’ from Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. More...
1 septembre 2013

All 25,000 candidates fail Liberian university entrance exam

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/ce988c035aadaf0a6ad0a7a7d51a0fabdf1359a4/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy , Africa correspondent. Applicants accused of lacking enthusiasm and not having a basic grasp of English. The University of Liberia. Number of applicants this year: nearly 25,000. Number gaining admission: zero. The "epic fail" of every single candidate in the admission exam provoked bafflement, consternation and heated debate on Tuesday, with some convinced that flaws in Liberia's education system had been brutally exposed. A government minister likened it to "mass murder". Read more...

31 août 2013

South African Council on Higher Education (CHE)

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 The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) is an independent statutory body responsible for advising the Minister of Higher Education and Training on all higher education policy issues, and for quality assurance in higher education and training. The CHE was established in May 1998, the responsibilities assigned to the CHE can be grouped into four main areas of work: advising the Minister of Education; assuming executive responsibility for quality assurance and quality promotion within higher education and training; monitoring and evaluating whether, how, to what extent and with what consequences the vision, policy goals and objectives for higher education are being realised; and contributing to the development of higher education by taking initiatives to provide guidance on key national and systemic issues. The link address is: http://www.che.ac.za/

31 août 2013

All of the students failed university admission exams in Liberia?

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BBC is reporting that in one of the two state run Liberian universities, all (!) of the students failed at the university admission exam.
Current Liberian president, the Nobel prize winning Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has frequently made statements regarding issues in the Liberian educational system. She sees the educational system as a key aspect for the nation’s future wellbeing and success:at the end of the day, if you do not have an educated population, we will be unable to build the national capacities of our young people“, and she has called for a total overhaul of the system. Read more...

31 août 2013

Association of African Universities

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 The Association of African Universities (AAU) is the apex organization and forum for consultation, exchange of information and co-operation among institutions of higher education in Africa. It represents the voice of higher education in Africa on regional and international bodies and supports networking by institutions of higher education in teaching, research, information exchange and dissemination.

The link address is: http://www.aau.org/

31 août 2013

2013 1st International Conference of the African Virtual University

 

 

 

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Integrating eLearning and Open Education to Increase Access to Quality Education and Training in Africa
Proposed topics should consider the opportunities and/or challenges of the integration of eLearning and Open Education to increase access to quality education and training. Preferred topics can be drawn from, but is not limited to the following thematic areas:

  1. Open Education: issues including Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  2. Infrastructure & Access: issues including access to open and eLearning content, learning centers, mobile learning, delivery technologies, Internet connectivity etc.
  3. Accreditation and Quality Assurance
  4. Management and Delivery of open, distance and eLearning courses and programs: issues including leadership, policy, strategy, administration, financing, recruitment & retention of students, academic programs delivery & management, technology, learner support and faculty development, gender issues etc.
  5. Content: Issues in curriculum design, development & delivery, including in the following areas Science, Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) Education, Teacher Education, Computer Science and Peace & Conflict Studies etc.
  6. Gender: Issues in Science, Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) Education
  7. Design: design of instruction for various teaching and learning scenarios including online and blended formal courses, self-directed, student-centered learning, problem based learning, collaborative learning etc.
  8. Assessment and Evaluation: online assessment, E-portfolios, face-to-face assessment, recognition of prior learning, learning analytics, etc.
  9. Emerging media and technologies: including in mobile learning, flipped classrooms, 3-D printing etc.
  10. Strengthening institutional capacity for sustainable eLearning

Send all your queries relating to the conference to contact@avu.org
More information about this event…

 

 

 

30 août 2013

The Real Truth About Mass Entrance Exam Failure in Liberia

http://allafrica.com/static/images/structure/aa-logo-gray.pngBy Jackie Sayegh. There are those who have wondered about the intelligence of the young people taking the exam. But today's young Liberians are just as bright as any of us who attended schools in Liberia before the war. That has not changed. Many of us have been able to succeed in high education because of a solid foundation from Liberian schools. I always maintain that I may have a higher degree from abroad but I was educated in Liberia. Articles and people touting our president as a Harvard graduate do a disservice to the Liberian school system. True, Madame President earned a Harvard degree, but her achievements were made possible because of the strong educational foundation she received in the elementary and high schools of Liberia. What has changed since then are the conditions among which these young people learn. Growing up we had books, electricity, and most of the time, went to school well fed. These days just getting to class in Liberia is an exercise in endurance and patience. More...

26 août 2013

Private Universities and First Class Degrees

http://allafrica.com/static/images/publishers/minibanners/thisday180.jpgMany of the degrees are not worth the paper on which they are printed
The advent of private universities in Nigeria was considered a welcome development for the simple reason that the public universities had become anything but centres for excellence. Aside the endless strikes by the lecturers and the non-academic staff which sometimes lasted as long as one academic session, the neglect of federal and state universities by successive governments has also resulted in a situation in which students of these universities were never certain as to the number of years they would spend for their degrees.
Unfortunately, the emergence of private universities does not seem to be raising academic standards given their penchant for indiscriminate award of degrees that are not worth the papers upon which they are printed. More...

25 août 2013

Higher Education Loans Board reaches out to private sector to boost fund

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/common/i/logo_footer.pngBy Frankline Sunday. The Higher Education Loans Board is reaching out to the private sector and individuals in a bid to boost the value of its revolving fund. This, the board hopes, will help it increase its lending capacity, which has been hard hit by a sharp increase in the number of students enrolled in the country’s institutions of higher learning. The board recently announced the launch of the Afya Elimu Fund, a joint partnership between Helb, Usaid, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance and selected government ministries. The private-public partnership hopes to raise Sh1.5 billion that will go towards providing education loans for health studies. More...

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