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1 décembre 2018

Consultant·e ou chercheur·e ? Le dilemme des jeunes universitaires en Afrique

Le ou la jeune chercheur·e en sciences sociales et santé africain·e est dès le départ pris·e entre plusieurs logiques qu’il doit concilier. Premièrement, le choix de ses objets de recherche. Contrainte postcoloniale ou géographique. Plus...

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30 novembre 2018

Broken government promises to blame for Nigeria university strike

All 37,504 academic staff of Nigeria’s public universities have been on an indefinite strike since early November. More...

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30 novembre 2018

Children with albinism find it hard to navigate school. Teachers can help

The myth that children with albinism will die young and that it’s not worth devoting resources to their education means that many are prevented from attending school. More...

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30 novembre 2018

What’s driving high pregnancy rates in Kenyan schools

Cases of pregnancy among young girls is high. Teen pregnancy and motherhood rates stand at 18%. About one in every five adolescent girls (aged 15 to 19) has either had a live birth, or is pregnant with her first child. More...

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27 novembre 2018

Staff strike reflects frustration over broken promises

By Tunde Fatunde. Beyond the specific salary and benefits-related grievances behind the latest strike by academic staff is intense frustration over the Nigerian government’s failure over several years to meet the terms of its own agreements with respect to adequately funding the sector’s growing public universities – most of which are in a state of perilous infrastructural decline. More...

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20 novembre 2018

Developmental universities need strong leadership

By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng. Leaders at every level of the developmental university should constantly engage in conversation, discussion and dialogue with individuals or groups of university stakeholders. The purpose of this is to encourage innovative, critical and creative thinking about the university's roles and functions. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Putting reflective practice at the heart of leadership

By Sharon Dell. At the centre of transformative leadership stands the reflective practitioner, an individual learner – either student or staff member – who is open to a constant exchange of knowledge, cultures and world views and who does not simply memorise but grapples with information, understands it and is also able, where necessary, to challenge it. More...

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19 novembre 2018

What’s holding Africa’s young scientists back?

By Munyaradzi Makoni and Sharon Dell. Co-edited by Canadian social scientist Catherine Beaudry (École Polytechnique de Montréal), and Johann Mouton and Heidi Prozesky from the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, The Next Generation of African Scientists is the product of a four-year study into what influences research performance and development of young scientists from more than 50 African countries. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Overcoming the public-private divide in HE law

By Wondwosen Tamrat. The public-private distinction has been a major area of interest in the broader realms of business, law, public administration and, lately, in the evolving literature on higher education. However, the growth of privatisation tendencies within the public sector has increasingly challenged the wisdom of drawing such a clear distinction between the two spheres of public and private. More...

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19 novembre 2018

World Bank US$20 million grant aims to address skills gap

By Christabel Ligami. The government of Sierra Leone has received a US$20 million grant from the World Bank for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) focused on the agriculture, fisheries, tourism, oil and gas, and mining sectors. More...

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