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9 février 2018

Report reveals taxi industry hampering HE enrolment

On the very day Liberia inaugurated its new president and vice-president, a civil society organisation released what it calls useful data to support the new government’s education and youth development programmes. Among such data is the finding that the commercial taxi driving industry is hampering young people’s pursuit of higher education, writes Toweh Alphonso for The New Republic. More...

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9 février 2018

Carnegie supports RUFORUM post-doctoral fellowships

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a network of 85 universities supporting capacity-building for agricultural training in Africa, has received a US$1.5 million grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support its post-doctoral fellowship programme on the continent. More...

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9 février 2018

Pan African University to craft strategic plan

The Pan African University (PAU) is developing a strategic plan to help guide its activities over the next five years and identify key priorities, including resource mobilisation and how to offer relevant training. More...

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9 février 2018

Partnership launches network to boost HE online courses

REAMOOC is coordinated by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and Belgium’s Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and jointly financed by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme which is contributing €870,000 (US$1 million) to the project. More...

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9 février 2018

27 universities out-produce big economies on research

A group of 27 of the world’s top universities together produce more research than all but two of the world’s major industrialised nations, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. More...

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9 février 2018

An important show of unity on precarious employment

By Emmanuelle Fick and Grace Karram Stephenson. It was a cold grey morning in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, at 7am on 16 October last year, when 12,000 faculty members from 24 colleges donned their jackets, picked up their protest signs and began their protest. More...

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9 février 2018

Academic freedom is facing ‘growing threats’ – Report

By Yojana Sharma. There has been a “growing top-down backlash” in the wake of Hong Kong’s 2014-15 student-led Umbrella Movement protests, with the authorities trying to limit academic freedom and bring academia under their control, according to a new report from Hong Kong Watch. More...

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9 février 2018

Student protesters against compulsory Mandarin punished

By Mimi Leung. Two students at Hong Kong Baptist University were suspended last week after campus protests over compulsory Mandarin language being required for students to graduate. The protests took on a political tone as Mandarin is the language of mainland China, while Hong Kong’s official languages are Cantonese and English. Hong Kong Baptist University, along with other main public universities in Hong Kong, teaches in English. More...

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9 février 2018

Technical courses revamp focuses on practical learning

By Shuriah Niazi. Alarmed at the high rate of unemployment among India’s engineering graduates and the gap between their skills and the demands of employers, crucial changes in the curriculum for engineering and technical courses have been announced to make them less theoretical and bring them more in tune with industry’s requirements. The changes will be implemented in the current academic year 2017-18. More...

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9 février 2018

Improving the pipeline of social justice leadership

By Susan V Berresford. The world today needs a fresh pipeline of leaders to strengthen work on inequality and exclusion. The old ways of generating leaders are sound, but on their own insufficient to meet the world's need to address inequality. More...

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