By Christabel Ligami. Kenyan universities have been given 30 days to outline corrective measures to address a litany of misdemeanours ranging from flouting of admission criteria to ‘rampant’ abuse of executive degree programmes, the offering of unaccredited programmes as well as the failure to follow rules for student-to-staff ratios. Read more...
By Wagdy Sawahel. Published by the Morocco-based Organisation of the Student Renaissance, a national association open to all university students in Morocco, the 17 February report entitled Financial and Administrative Corruption in Moroccan Universities indicates that female students suffer from extortion and sexual harassment by professors that usually goes unpunished. Read more...
By Jackie Opara. The Nigerian federal government has ordered all specialised universities to stop offering courses and programmes contrary to their mandates and delete the courses from the portal of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, the agency responsible for university admissions. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. With a total budget of R15 billion (US$1.2 billion) for 2017, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme expects to fund "well over" 405,000 students at both universities and technical and vocational colleges this year. This is despite an admission that the system did not go “smoothly” in all areas. Read more...
By Maina Waruru. The African Academy of Sciences and the Association of Commonwealth Universities have selected 37 African researchers from different African universities for the third cohort of a programme supporting early career researchers in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Read more...
By Christabel Ligami. The African Academy of Sciences and the Association of Commonwealth Universities have selected 37 African researchers from different African universities for the third cohort of a programme supporting early career researchers in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Read more...
By Ashraf Khaled. In a bid to curb the age-old practice, Egyptian medical students are to study female genital mutilation as part of their training in a country where more than 80% of mutilations are believed to be conducted by medical workers.
He cited 2014 government statistics that said around 92% of Egypt’s women aged 15 to 49 years have been subjected to female genital mutilation. The rates dropped to 61% among girls under the age of 15, compared to 74% in 2008. Read more...
Pour sa deuxième édition, le forum mobilité a lieu le jeudi 2 mars 2017 à Marseille de 9h30 à 16h30 au Palais des congrès du Parc Chanot.La Mission interministérielle de lutte contre les drogues et les conduites addictives (MILDECA) lance l’appel à projets 2017, du 9 février au 7 avril 2017, pour la mise en œuvre d’actions innovantes de prévention-information pour la lutte contre la consommation excessive d’alcool, les drogues et les conduites addictives. Voir l'article...
Dans un contexte de reconfiguration majeure des territoires et des compétences des collectivités, les acteurs du territoire ont été conviés par la DREAL PACA à assister à la première conférence de valorisation des travaux issus de ce partenariat sur le thème « Réenchantons la planification ! ». Cette conférence a attiré plus de 150 participants le 15 février 2017 à l'Hôtel de Région à Marseille. Voir l'article...
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