By Sharon Dell. While it is unlikely that South Africa will escape student unrest at the start of the 2017 academic year, authorities are hoping such action will be moderated by the progress made in addressing some of the key challenges that sparked and sustained last year’s violent and highly disruptive protests over fee-free higher education. Read more...
By Ayo Olukotun. For, when you look at it, the odds are stacked against our higher education, in its current prostrate state from becoming a destination for cross border education. Recall, for example, that under the Buhari administration, education has consistently received paltry and diminishing percentages of the national budget. More...
By Jenni Evans. President Jacob Zuma has signed the Higher Education Amendment Act, which gives Minister Blade Nzimande greater powers to intervene in university matters and furthers the government's higher education transformation plans.
"I am very excited," said MP Charles Kekana, whip of Parliament's committee on higher education, on Wednesday.
"We have been working very hard on it."
The central theme of the act, signed into law on Tuesday, was to make universities more inclusive, and to move away from old patterns of universities based on racial or language lines and to recognise African schools of thought and knowledge, explained Kekana. More...
By Kgomotso Modise. About 11 colleges were shut down during a raid in Braamfontein last year after they were found to be operating illegally. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The first details of government’s upcoming Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme have emerged, aimed at addressing South Africa’s “missing middle” students. More...
By Abdi Latif Dahir. Universities and higher education institutions were always part and parcel of Africa’s modern and past history. The Univerisity of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, which opened in 859 AD, is considered the oldest existing and continually operating university in the world. Al-Azhar University in Egypt, part of the larger complex of institutions associated with Al-Azhar mosque and which currently enrolls two million students, is dubbed the world’s most prestigious Islamic university. More...
By . The start of the academic year is looming in South Africa. The student protests that rocked most public universities’ campuses in 2016 – the second consecutive year of protests – died down long enough for most institutions’ exams to go ahead as usual. But the fundamental conditions that led to the protests are still largely unresolved. More...
By Christabel Ligami and Gilbert Nganga. In what is being billed as one of the most comprehensive institutional reviews in Kenyan higher education history, the Kenyan Commission for University Education, or CUE, is to start the process of auditing all public and private universities on 23 January. Read more...
By Maina Waruru. A massive drop in the number of secondary school leavers qualifying for entry into universities in 2017 means that Kenyan private universities may have to turn to fee-paying foreign students or offer more diploma courses to keep themselves afloat. Read more...
By Maina Waruru. Professional bodies in Kenya have lost the battle with the Commission for University Education, or CUE, over who has the final say in the accreditation of university programmes. Read more...
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