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16 mars 2018

Pan African University issues call for new students

The Pan African University (PAU), a postgraduate training and research network of university nodes supported by the African Union, has issued a call for applications to its masters and doctoral programmes, offered across its four institutes on the continent. More...

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16 mars 2018

African Union launches call for research grant proposals

The 2018 call is focused on research in food, nutrition security and sustainable agriculture, and is targeted at scientists and researchers working in national or regional research, or technological organisations or networks, including those working in universities. More...

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16 mars 2018

Students strike after being refused masters degree entry

Students who have completed their first degree but have not been selected to continue for a master’s course have gone on strike in the faculty of arts and human sciences of the country’s leading university, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). More...

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16 mars 2018

Meeting the need for higher education on a massive scale

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Professor Love Ekenberg, a computer and systems sciences expert and mathematician at Stockholm University in Sweden, was recently appointed as International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Chair for Massive Scale Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. As such, he will oversee the establishment of a network for massive-scale higher education in the region focusing on high quality, large-scale PhD programmes. More...

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16 mars 2018

Academics call for reform of scandal-hit exam agency

By Tunde Fatunde. Nigerian academics argue that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the sole agency permitted by law to conduct entrance examinations for all tertiary institutions in the country, needs to be decentralised and modernised if it is to stand any hope of dealing with the rampant corruption being uncovered within the body. More...

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16 mars 2018

New scheme to boost black academics’ research capacity

By Stephen Coan. South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and the public benefit organisation FirstRand Foundation (FRF) have joined forces to create a sabbatical programme aimed at boosting research capacity among black African academics, and academics with disabilities. More...

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16 mars 2018

Improving the quality of university education in Africa

By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu. In the African context, quality university education invariably focuses on student admission standards, lecturers’ academic qualifications, rigorous examination protocols, degree programme requirements, course content and availability of laboratory and classroom facilities. Little or no attention is paid to pedagogy, which is left entirely to the discretion of lecturers. More...

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16 mars 2018

Foregrounding the public good benefits of university study

By Jennifer Case, Delia Marshall, Sioux McKenna and Disaapele Mogashana. Over the last few decades there has come to be a dominance of economic arguments regarding the purpose of higher education. There are two key positions in this regard, one based on human capital theory and an alternative view based on the credentialing functions of education. More...

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15 mars 2018

Food prices must drop in Africa: How can this be achieved?

After the 2007-08 crisis, we got into the bad habit when discussing food prices of focusing almost exclusively on volatility and overlooking the question of the level of prices. Of course, reasons were good for this; between February 2007 and February 2008, world food prices jumped 60%. These increases combined with local factors had dramatic effects, particularly in West Africa, where millions of households already had insufficient income to cover their basic nutritional needs. More...

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14 mars 2018

Five universities lose engineering accreditation

By Christabel Ligami. Scores of engineering students in Kenya face the prospect of not having their qualifications recognised after the Engineers Board of Kenya reduced the number of accredited institutions to nine universities. More...

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