Zimbabwe’s institutions of higher learning and research have been challenged to protect their inventions and research under intellectual property laws, writes Whinsley Masara for the Chronicle. More...Our distinguished readers, partners and contributors give us rewarding feedback on the last 10 years of University World News – Africa, and in doing so, help us to fine-tune our ongoing contribution to higher education in Africa and the world. More...By Mark Paterson. A decolonisation campaign started by South African students in 2015 risks fatally undermining the country’s higher education system and its capacity to support national development, a recent meeting in Cape Town was told. More...By Wachira Kigotho. Key reports and studies on African higher education over the last 10 years have tracked some of the main features of the sector and provide a snapshot of the state of the sector as a whole. By far the most striking trend has been the sector’s continuing, and increasingly rapid, expansion. This growth is unsurpassed by any other region in the world and, while definitely needed, it has also given rise to a range of related challenges. More...By Tunde Fatunde. Every day, journalists wake up in search of news. The beginning of this journey is usually cloudy and uncertain. As unwavering optimists, however, journalists are reasonably confident that their day will yield positive results. At times this cloudy but promising journey ends, as does life, in unpredictable disasters and accidents. However, for those who survive the vagaries, the journey goes on. More...By Ahmed Bawa. On 3 February 1995, President Nelson R Mandela signed into being the National Commission on Higher Education with the purpose of producing a plan for the transformation of South Africa’s university system and the individual institutions within it. More...By Damtew Teferra. “It would be wiser not to talk about higher education exclusively [at the upcoming dialogue] but [also] rather TVET”… so that there would be “more appetite to support higher education than TVET”. More...By Nico Cloete and Francois van Schalkwyk. During the early 2000s, a broad agreement emerged that higher education was important for development in Africa, although there were multiple, often competing, discourses about the roles of universities in relation to development. Within this zeitgeist, a number of development aid agencies agreed that a different, more collaborative approach to linking higher education and development was required. More...By Goolam Mohamedbhai. When the Africa edition of University World News first appeared in 2008, the initial issues provided greater focus on matters related to higher education in South Africa; this was understandable since it was sponsored by what was then the South African-based Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET). More...By Teboho Moja. It was a bold move made by a group of journalists committed to reporting on education that led to the establishment of an e-newspaper focusing specifically on higher education. The establishment of University World News (UWN), and its Africa edition one year later, was timely because of tremendous changes in the field of higher education that were taking place worldwide. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
