By Wachira Kigotho. According to the draft document Transforming Our World: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development, from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs or DESA, 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets will form the main agenda of the global forum. Read more...
By Esther Nakkazi. Public universities in Uganda have resumed full operation after several weeks of industrial action. Non-teaching staff had laid down their tools citing low pay and anger over government action to raise lecturer salaries but not theirs. Read more...
By Jane Marshall. The number of international students studying in Mauritius increased during 2014 to more than 1,500 from 65 countries, while the number of Mauritians studying abroad also rose, according to the 16th annual Participation in Tertiary Education report. Read more...
By Maina Waruru. Police officers will be deployed on request to Kenyan universities to boost security and guard against possible future attacks by religious extremists, the government has said. Read more...
By Tunde Fatunde. A government plan to withdraw funding from university-based primary schools and demonstration secondary schools on all campuses in Nigeria has met with sharp resistance from parents, some university staff, university-based unions and university management. Read more...
By Reuben Kyama. Hundreds of African students are leaving for Japan this year, the second group to join the African Business Education Initiative for Youth, a five-year plan to provide 1,000 young Africans with opportunities to study for masters degrees at top universities and do internships at leading Japanese companies. Read more...
By Wagdy Sawahel. A new collaborative masters degree to develop Africa’s next generation of public policy leaders has been initiated by the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, or PASGR, in cooperation with 12 universities in seven African countries. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. Student success is crucial to the purposes of open, distance and e-learning – but challenging to achieve compared with selective post-secondary systems – a study for the International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE, found. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor. The first Global Conference on Internationalisation of Higher Education will be held in August next year, in South Africa’s huge Kruger Park game reserve. The event flows from the first inclusive Global Dialogue held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in January 2014, attended by 24 international education organisations from across the world. Read more...
By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Nico Cloete draws on data and arguments from a forthcoming book on the doctorate in South Africa to illustrate how unhelpful the raging ‘transformation’ of higher education debate has become. Meanwhile, there have been campus upheavals over racism and student politics, according to Munyaradzi Makoni.
Damtew Teferra criticises Times Higher Education for not including critical African players in the recent Africa Universities Summit, which included a consultation on regional university rankings.
In Africa Features, Wachira Kigotho reveals ahead of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 in New York that African delegations will push hard for robust support for tertiary education and science, technology and innovation.
This week in Commentary, Philip G Altbach argues that in the current (modest) revival of liberal arts globally, rich non-Western educational traditions have been largely ignored.
Ielyzaveta Shchepetylnykova charts challenges and progress in Ukraine’s efforts to implement the Bologna process and improve higher education data and analysis. And Marguerite Dennis and Richard Lynch contend that universities need to adopt ‘blue ocean’ thinking and strategies for a higher education future that is likely to be online and international. Read more...
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