By Esther Nakkazi. Africa must create ‘innovation universities’ if it is to achieve economic transformation, sustainable development and inclusive growth, says Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government. Read more...
e-Learning offers a great opportunity for universities to adapt courses efficiently to the requirements of different categories of students, participants were told at a national conference on digital distance education held in Algeria. Read more...
Some students at Burundi University believe the rector has a ‘hidden agenda’ after he appointed student representatives to university committees following failed student elections. Read more...
By Temwa Moyo, Nimi Hoffmann and Sioux McKenna. South Africa’s government is planning a major overhaul of its student funding system. This comes in the wake of protests at the country’s universities that saw students successfully freeze fee increases for the 2016 academic year. Read more...
By Deren Temel. Africa cannot wait until 2030 for the next round of global goals to address the urgent need for quality higher education. Read more...
By Wachira Kigotho. Rarely do vice-chancellors of public universities in Sub-Saharan Africa write about their terms in office after they retire. But Professor Ratemo Waya Michieka decided to share his experiences as leader of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya in a recently published book, as part of the continental Higher Education Leadership Programme, HELP. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Student protests at Rhodes University, nestled in the small South African town of Grahamstown, ended with the resumption of lectures last Monday after a week of dramatic disruption and disturbances over a ‘rape culture’ at the institution – but the conversation is far from over. Read more...
By Wachira Kigotho. Is a crisis of identity emerging among African academics in the diaspora as to whether they are an offshoot of Pan-Africanism or a breed of emigrant elites, the Afropolitans? Therese Assie-Lumumba, professor of African studies at Cornell University in the United States, says there is growing interest in the concept of Afropolitanism – a school of thought loosely embedded in elements of geography, territoriality and location. Read more...
By Wagdy Sawahel. A US$50 million, Chinese-built connectivity platform for the Ethiopian Education and Research Network – EthERNet – has been inaugurated in the country’s capital Addis Ababa, connecting universities to high-speed internet and to each other. Read more...
By Nick Holdsworth. The findings of a major new humanitarian research project showing a global "compassion gap" in public perceptions of contemporary refugee crises were published last Sunday. Read more...
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