
In Africa Features, Tunde Fatunde canvasses responses to the Nigerian government’s puzzling announcement of the dates for the screening examinations for university candidates – examinations which were put on hold by a court order earlier this year; while Munyaradzi Makoni examines a recent report by the Academy of Science of South Africa which calls for a ‘reconceptualisation’ of healthcare education and training in South Africa.
In News from around the continent, Francis Kokutse reports on the establishment of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission which is to regulate all tertiary institutions in Ghana and will help to speed up the establishment of qualifying private universities; Steve Sharra writes about the formation of an association of universities and colleges in Malawi that aims to advance the interests of higher education in the country; and Gilbert Nakweya writes about the launch of a new open access database to raise the visibility of African education research.
In our World Blog this week, Hans de Wit says the dynamics of international student mobility have intensified and become more diverse and complex over the past 10 years, but the push and pull factors for mobility have not changed. More...