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9 novembre 2018

TETFund is failing local universities – Academics

By Alex Abutu. The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), the agency tasked with the disbursement of the education tax to public universities, has turned its back on its corruption-plagued past and is “cruising to success”, according to its executive secretary. But Nigerian academics say the agency is still essentially enriching universities abroad instead of investing in higher education in Nigeria. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Government backtracks, calls for new university council

By Francis Kokutse. The government of Ghana has retreated from a recent decision to dissolve the governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and replace it with an interim council in the wake of demonstrations by students which resulted in the institution’s closure. In a new statement, the Ministry of Information has requested that the chancellor reconstitute the council in accordance with the university's statutes and laws. More...

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9 novembre 2018

127 students benefit from SKA human development project

By Kudzai Mashininga. Science ministers from nine African countries implementing the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope and African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) projects have noted progress in the training of students for the initiative, although financial resources remain a concern. More...

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3 novembre 2018

Los jóvenes científicos africanos y las barreras que les impiden alcanzar su potencial

Los jóvenes científicos africanos se encuentran con constantes barreras que les llevan a abandonar sus propios países e, incluso, el mundo académico. Por este motivo, la población activa del continente pierde a trabajadores muy cualificados que son de importancia fundamental para el avance científico y tecnológico, así como para el desarrollo económico. Más...

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3 novembre 2018

Guía para convertir las universidades africanas en líderes en investigación

África subsahariana representa el 13,5 % de la población mundial, pero menos del 1% de la producción mundial de investigación. En 2008, se publicaron 27.000 estudios en África, la misma cifra que Países Bajos. Más...

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3 novembre 2018

Universities need to take note of the gap between expectations and experience

The student population at South African universities have changed dramatically in the last two decades. It’s now much more diverse in terms of age, race, culture, backgrounds, educational experience and academic potential. More...

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24 octobre 2018

Threat to cancel courses – ‘Government will pay up’

Senegal's Higher Education Minister Mary Teuw Niane has tried to reassure institutions that the government will pay the more than 16 billion francs it owes them, after they threatened to cancel the courses of thousands of students that the state has been contracted to fund. More...

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24 octobre 2018

Unions reject fee hike proposal as government backtracks

By Tunde Fatunde. With Nigerian higher education institutions in the grip of a funding crisis, teacher and student unions rejected a recent proposal by a government commission to hike fees – calling it “outrageous”, as it would bar disadvantaged students from attaining qualifications – and called on the government to stick to its fiscal obligations. More...

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24 octobre 2018

A unique opportunity to promote scientific collaboration

By Rami M Ayoubi and Engin Akcay. Science diplomacy has three different faces: science in diplomacy (using science as a diplomatic instrument in foreign policy); diplomacy for science (diplomacy seen as a way to establish scientific collaboration in the international realm); and science for diplomacy (where scientific cooperation can help improve international affairs). More...

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24 octobre 2018

Students arrested in protests over university age limit

By Wagdy Sawahel. Two students were arrested after student unions and associations protested outside Mauritania’s Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific Research in Nouakchott after its recent decision to bar more than 1,000 high school graduates aged over 25 from studying at higher education institutions. More...

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