By Elizabeth Redden. The governing council for Rhodes University, in South Africa, voted 15 to 9 not to change the university’s name following years of debate, the Johannesburg-based TimesLIVE reported Wednesday. More...
The Future of Academe in Zimbabwe
By Holly Else for Times Higher Education. Zimbabwe’s universities must shed politically tainted leaders and rediscover academic freedom in order to fix the damage done to the country’s higher education system by Robert Mugabe, according to researchers who fled his brutal regime. More...
What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond
What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond
Pauline Rose, World Education Blog, 2017/09/13
Privatization and private investment are often seen as key to the creation of educational opportunities in the devleoping world. This article (4 page PDF) is a useful and fairminded look at some such initiatives in Liberia. More...
Drought in Somalia Drives Children from School
In this remote town on the Horn of Africa, about 270 miles south of the capital city of Mogadishu, schoolchildren loiter in the streets in search of food. More...
Black academics soon to outnumber whites – Study

A South African case study: how to transform student support efforts
South Africa’s universities have created a number of programmes to address the historic – and still existing – imbalance between black and white students. More...
South Africa can’t afford to see its universities pitch over the precipice
For the past two years the actions of government and protesting students have slowly started squeezing South Africa’s universities into a shadow of their former selves. More...
Six barriers that make it difficult for African states to use research for policy
African policymakers need access to high quality evidence to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) successfully. The SDGs are arguably the most broad-ranging development goals to be ratified by United Nations member states. Their overall aim is to “leave no one behind” by 2030. More...
Jobs and paid-for schooling can keep Tanzanian girls from early marriages
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to four of the top five countries in early marriage – or child marriage – rates: Niger, Chad, Mali and Central African Republic. Despite decades of campaigning to restrict or forbid early marriage, little has changed for the world’s poorest women. More...