Universities are no longer simply institutions of learning. Over the past 50 years, they have also become important players in global financial markets. They have become institutional investors. More...
19 octobre 2017
19 octobre 2017
How South Sudan’s universities have survived civil war and independence
Sudan’s three oldest public universities – Juba, Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile – all have their origins in southern Sudan. In the late 1980s they were relocated to Khartoum in the north. This was ostensibly done to protect students and faculty from the war. It also allowed the regime to execute the war away from the scrutiny of intellectuals. In exile the universities flourished, acquiring additional property and staff. More...
19 octobre 2017
How tolerance enhances democracy and the quest for human flourishing
In Cape Town, South Africa, a group of high school boys compiled a song which included the lyrics: “I feel pain unearthly because of my hatred of kaffirs”. The word “kaffir” is an apartheid-era racial slur and possibly the most offensive word in the South African lexicon. At the University of Witwatersrand, also in South Africa, the phrase “Kill a Jew” was spray-painted on one of its main buildings. More...
19 octobre 2017
Are graduates prepared for the job market? Rethinking Africa’s university model
Across Africa, students arrive on campuses full of hope that a university degree will improve their lives. The reality is far less certain. More...
19 octobre 2017
Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history
Maori anthropologist Linda Tuhiwai Smith, in her seminal work Decolonising Methodologies, argues that
Re-search is a dirty word.
Hyphenating “research” into “re-search” is very useful because it reveals what is involved, what it really means, and goes beyond the naive view of “research” as an innocent pursuit of knowledge. More...
19 octobre 2017
Turning traditional teaching on its head helps rural science students
When I started lecturing full-time a little over five years ago, I knew what everybody does: that we all learn better by doing. I knew that “active learning” – literally doing anything apart from just talking through a PowerPoint presentation – is the way to go. More...
19 octobre 2017
The power and politics of knowledge: what African universities need to do
The idea that knowledge is infused with power and politics may sound abstract, so let me offer an example from my own life to illustrate. I was invited to a dinner proceeding a conference in an African capital city. I had expected to meet all the other speakers. But it turned out to be only for the chosen few. I could not help wondering how we’d been selected. White faces outnumbered black ones, men outnumbered women – at a conference to discuss African universities’ future role. More...
19 octobre 2017
Khanya College: a South African story of decolonisation
Decolonisation and Africanisation may appear to be new ideas on South Africa’s higher education landscape. But a tertiary college established nearly 30 years ago shows that this is not the case. More...
19 octobre 2017
Montant des dotations allouées dans le cadre de la première vague de l'appel à projets Nouveaux cursus à l'université du PIA 3
Ces 17 projets seront soutenus pendant dix ans, pour un montant total de 150 millions d'euros de dotation décennale. Ils bénéficieront ainsi d’un financement pendant une période suffisamment longue pour permettre aux établissements concernés de transformer leur offre de formation, en particulier en premier cycle, et d’améliorer ainsi la réussite et l’insertion professionnelle des étudiants. Plus...19 octobre 2017
The true failure of foreign language instruction
A recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences calls for more attention to language teaching in the U.S. The report notes that U.S. students have much less access to foreign language instruction than students in other economically developed countries, and that Americans are thus much less likely to be bi- or multilingual. More...
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