By Munyaradzi Makoni. Cameroon’s ministries of secondary and higher education and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences launched a Mathematics Teacher Training Programme in January. The pilot initiative will train some 3,000 maths teachers through three higher education institutions. Read more...
By Tom Abeles. Globally, there is an increasing need for individuals to gain advanced certification beyond the secondary diploma. This demand is particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more...
By Donald Otoyo Ondieki and Emily Achieng’ Akuno. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the creative economy is an evolving concept based on creative assets. It embraces economic, cultural, social and technological activities, linking at macro and micro levels with the overall economy. Read more...
By Wachira Kigotho. Only some 4,600 students from Sub-Saharan Africa were admitted to postgraduate courses in the United States last year, according to the Council of Graduate Schools. Students from the region comprised only 2% of 215,156 foreign students offered postgraduate places in 793 universities and colleges across America. Read more...
By Esther Nakkazi. A debate has been raging in Uganda over whether a degree improves the ability to comprehend and accurately report on parliamentary proceedings. With elections looming, parliament has barred journalists who do not have a degree and three years’ experience – even though MPs only need an advanced certificate. Read more...
By Maina Waruru. The Pan African University, or PAU, is to establish gender desks with permanent staff in all of its four operational institutes to address an acute problem of gender disparity in enrolments. Males comprise nearly 70% of all students admitted so far. Read more...
By Esther Nakkazi. Ugandan universities are phasing out courses with few students – except science courses and those not available elsewhere or where a university may have a comparative advantage. Read more...
By Wagdy Sawahel. Africa has been late to join the ‘green’ universities movement – only five institutions on the continent are among more than 400 participating in a global ranking of universities that practise environmentally friendly policies to help combat climate change. But now national and regional ‘green’ university networks are being developed on the continent. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. South Africa’s #FeesMustFall movement has found resonance in neighbouring Namibia, where student protests last week resulted in the government postponing registration fee payment at the Namibia University of Science and Technology or NUST. Read more...
By Ashraf Khaled. Egypt’s higher education authorities have curtailed a decades-old incentive system for sports students, saying that it has been abused for university entry. Read more...
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