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14 avril 2017

Police prosecute pro-democracy students and scholars

By Yojana Sharma. More than 200 academics from universities in Hong Kong and abroad have criticised the police prosecution of students and scholars who played a leading role in the 2014-15 pro-democracy protests that swept the city demanding universal suffrage to elect the semi-autonomous city’s chief executive, as its leader is known. More...

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14 avril 2017

Hungarian HE law change criticised by German ministry

By Michael Gardner. Germany’s Federal Foreign Office has sharply criticised Hungary’s higher education law amendment, maintaining that it restricts academic freedom. More...

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14 avril 2017

MPs pass law that threatens to close top university

By Brendan O'Malley. The Hungarian parliament has passed a controversial amendment to its national law on higher education, changing the regulations for foreign universities, which threatens the continuing operation of the country’s leading university, the Central European University or CEU, founded by billionaire George Soros. More...

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14 avril 2017

Second university ranking adds new overall category

By Ranjit Devraj and Yojana Sharma. India’s second annual round of ranking of its universities and other higher education institutions released last week includes a new overall category which looks at institutions across all disciplines. More...

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14 avril 2017

Ministry sees value in international students

By Wagdy Sawahel. While international students studying in Egypt currently generate US$186 million for the Egyptian economy, this figure is low by international standards. An ambitious government plan aims to double the number of international students by 2020-21 and increase their contribution to the country by as much as US$700 million. More...

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14 avril 2017

University chiefs call for reforms in ‘decaying’ sector

By Tunde Fatunde. Greater university autonomy, credible appointments to governing councils, integrity tests for prospective vice-chancellors, and a holistic overhaul to stem systemic decay topped the list of recommendations contained in a strongly-worded statement released at the close of the recent third biennial conference of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities. More...

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14 avril 2017

Private higher education – Competitive or complementary?

By Stephen Coan. The instability of the South Africa tertiary education sector, due largely to the student-led #FeesMustFall protest movement as well as quality issues, has seen the role of private universities thrown into stark relief, dubbed either, as one commentator put it, “an escape hatch for the very rich” or competition out to steal students from public institutions. More...

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14 avril 2017

The changing face of social sciences and the liberal arts

By Francis Kokutse. The days of stand-alone disciplines in academia are over, as liberal arts subjects are being integrated into other areas of study in higher education institutions in order to focus on development issues, according to Tayo Adesina of the University of Ibadan’s history department. More...

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14 avril 2017

Call to end government research investment 'inertia'

By Francis Kokutse. African governments need to invest heavily in research in order to provide solutions to improve the lives of its people, Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said at the recent launch of the African Research Universities Alliance, or ARUA. More...

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14 avril 2017

Facing up to the challenge of scholarship in Africa

By Elísio Macamo. Decolonising the mind – and the university – requires African scholars not to reject Western thinkers like Kant and Hegel but to go beyond them and push the frontiers of knowledge further. More...

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