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By Wagdy Sawahel. A Tripoli University Business Incubator is to be created in the Libyan capital in an effort to narrow the gap between university educational outputs and the needs of the workplace, and to encourage new businesses. The initiative supports Libya Vision 2020, which includes sweeping higher education reform. Read more...

By Jane Marshall. Two private higher education institutions in Mauritius, both with Indian links, are to close. The Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (Mauritius Branch Campus), or EIILM, will shut in December 2015 and the Amity Institute of Higher Education in June 2016, according to press reports. Read more...

By Esther Nakkazi. Lecturers at all six public universities in Uganda will have a salary increase of 53% effective from July. The pay hike is an effort by the government to improve higher education quality and skills development. But academics are not impressed. Read more...

By Maina Waruru. Just months after a terror attack killed 148 people at Garissa University College in northeast Kenya, 300 of its surviving students have been awarded scholarships to complete their studies by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD.
The students from poor and vulnerable backgrounds will complete their courses at Moi University, the parent institution of Garissa. DAAD is meeting their tuition fees in full plus living expenses – a first step in fully integrating them into mainstream studies. Read more...

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenyatta University – Kenya’s largest institution by student numbers – has teamed up with New York-based private equity firm Integras to build hostels with a total of 10,000 beds. The US$11 million project is to be executed under a public-private partnership. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. Nollywood, Nigeria’s vibrant film industry, has come of age by attracting tertiary educated audiences and can be used effectively as an integration tool in West Africa and beyond, says Dr Oluyemi Oyenike Fayomi, a senior lecturer at Covenant University in Nigeria.
Addressing more than 500 delegates at the 14th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa – CODESRIA – held in Dakar from June 8-12, Fayomi said Nollywood productions were rapidly gaining continental acceptance. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. The quality of education in African universities must be urgently improved in order to stem the brain drain and reduce risks stemming from the internationalisation of higher education, delegates at the 14th General Assembly of CODESRIA – the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa – were told. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. Tanzania has made progress in expanding access to higher education in order to gear young people towards a middle-income economy by 2025, according to a World Bank report. It provides a snapshot of how the East African country is catching up with tertiary education growth trends in neighbouring states such as Kenya and Uganda. Read more...

By Wachira Kigotho. In a report published this month, EY’s Attractiveness Survey Africa 2015 – Making Choices, human resources managers called on African governments to reshape tertiary education to ensure that it meets labour market needs. Read more...

By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua argues, based on a study he conducted, that it is time for African academics to draft an academic freedom charter. While this will be difficult, the cost of not doing so will be great for universities and countries.
Muhammad Mehmood-Ul-Hassan and Jan De Leeuw contend in an article for the African Academy of Sciences that strengthening peer review would help to improve the quality of science and the skills of African scientists. In Africa Features, Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a study suggesting that banishing widespread plagiarism could help Mozambique nurture the original thinkers needed for development.
In Commentary, Simon Marginson asks if higher education is responsible for the growth of socio-economic inequality, and examines how even elite universities can address barriers to social mobility. Nader Habibi maintains that Saudi Arabia should curb annual enrolment to universities because of graduate joblessness.
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera outlines how US visa policies are hampering academic freedom by discriminating against scholars from Latin America, Asia, Africa and majority Muslim nations.
In India, Pushkar in Commentary and Yojana Sharma in News investigate the stormy relationship between Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as Sen exits the chancellorship of Nalanda University. And in World Blog, John K Wilson writes that when controversial scholars such as Steven Salaita are sanctioned for having offensive views, it has a chilling effect throughout academia. Read more...