By Karen MacGregor – Africa Editor. In Africa Analysis, Stella-Maris Orim probes the implications of the casual approach of Nigerian students and academics to plagiarism – particularly for students wanting to study abroad.In Africa Features, Wachira Kigotho describes a call by University of Rwanda academic Chika Ezeanya for African researchers to seek inspiration from indigenous knowledge in order to tackle development problems, made at the general assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa – CODESRIA.
Munyaradzi Makoni writes that the MasterCard Foundation will provide US$25 million in funding to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and Nicola Jenvey describes a need for universities to reverse a decline in entrepreneurship in South Africa.
In World Blog, Hans de Wit and Philip G Altbach argue for a balance in international education between increasing commercialisation and national self-interest on the one hand, and the ideals of internationalisation on the other.
In Commentary, Alina Cordova writes about the positive prospects for internationalisation of smaller campuses with limited resources, and Pamela Tate describes a model that improves lives through better employment linked to better education and recognition of prior learning.
We publish a second special report on the British Council’s Going Global conference held in London, and in Global Features, Yojana Sharma reports on China’s launch of a new international alliance of universities, ostensibly to provide research and engineering support for China’s mammoth ‘One Belt, One Road’ project along the ancient Silk Road route. Read more...
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