By Sharon Dell. The internationalisation of higher education is a key driver of innovation and is seen as indispensable for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, spearheaded by the United Nations. However, forging successful, equal and sustainable partnerships to realise these goals in the context of historical injustices and global structural inequality calls for a careful approach. Read more...
Algeria and Cuba have signed eight conventions on health and higher education, covering areas including development of vaccines, animal experimentation and technology transfer. Meanwhile, Algeria and Mauritania are planning to cooperate in programmes in the fields of oceanography and aquaculture. Read more...
By Piyushi Kotecha. While the potential of regional cooperation to develop and strengthen Africa’s higher education sector has long been recognised on paper, progress towards its actualisation has been slow. Read more...
By Amasa P Ndofirepi and Michael Cross. In their pursuit of competitiveness, higher education institutions across Africa set themselves the target of becoming ‘world class’, and labels such as a ‘world-class African university’ are not uncommon in their mission statements. Read more...
By Sharon Dell. The “improvement of education and skills levels” are among five key recommendations contained in the Skills Supply and Demand in South Africa report released last month by the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership project. Read more...
By Gilbert Nakweya. The growth of higher education and its obligation to contribute towards sustainable development in some East African countries is hampered by a myriad challenges, with inadequate funding being one of the most significant. Read more...
By Kudzai Mashininga. The University of Zimbabwe, or UZ, has summoned three students to a disciplinary hearing after they held aloft protest placards during the university’s graduation ceremony last month at which Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was officiating. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Declining funding from governments in the last decade and economic recession are among the factors driving the need for African universities to find creative mobilisation models for funding, according to an African expert. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Sixty vice-chancellors who constitute the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, RUFORUM, have committed to train 325 PhD students over the next five years through intra-African academic mobility. Read more...
By Kudzai Mashininga. The fund in question is the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund, or ZIMDEF, established through an act of parliament to fund human capital development. Read more...
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