By Rachel Brooks. As media reports across the world have attested, since the turn of the 21st century we have witnessed a significant increase in the number of student protests across the globe. The most high profile of these have included protests in Germany (2008-13), California (2009), the United Kingdom (2010), Chile (2010-13) and Canada (2010-13). Read more...
By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya’s total university student enrolment rose 22.8% last year, marked by increased female enrolment and driven by massive infrastructure development, the introduction of new courses and the opening of more satellite campuses. Read more...
By Wachira Kigotho. Cameroon’s ambitions to become a middle-income economy by 2035 are more likely to be realised if the country invests heavily in specialised higher education in engineering, technology and computer-aided management, according to a World Bank report promoting a demand-led approach to skills development as a strategy for industrial take-off. Read more...
By Jane Marshall. The continental African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development, or CAFRAD, and France’s elite HEC business school have signed an agreement to train leaders and high-level officials. Read more...
By Jane Marshall. Ministers from CAMES, the Conseil africain et malgache pour l'enseignement supérieur – African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education – which represents 19 Francophone African states, have agreed on measures to develop higher education. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. A one-year pilot initiative under the United Nations HeForShe movement to engage governments, corporations and universities as instruments of change in advancing gender equality is gaining support, but challenges remain, the Going Global 2016 conference heard. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Recent multi-country case studies have highlighted the capacity of quality assurance in higher education to support nation-building in multiple ways, ranging from promoting a more open and transparent society to supporting economic goals and increasing graduate employability. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Both a unified front and a paradigm shift around access to knowledge were needed in order to deal with rising journal costs and exclusionary copyright provisions imposed by the mainstream academic publishing industry, a Leadership Dialogue on open access and African research publishing heard. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. The caste system in India – a country with 1.2 billion people, half of whom are under 25 years old – is rigid. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. Three in four of more than 200 universities surveyed globally are involved with at least one social enterprise, a British Council report reveals. Read more...
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