1. African Higher Education Research Online
2. Association of African Universities
3. Association for the Development of Education in Africa
4. Centre for Higher Education Transformation
5. CODESRIA
6. Council on Higher Education (South Africa)
7. Foundation Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
8. Harvard University Africa Higher Education Research Project
9. Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
10. International Network for Higher Education in Africa
11. Inter-University Council for East Africa
12. MSU African Higher Education Resource Directory
13. University World News
14. African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions
15. Southern African Regional Universities Association
16. Africa Higher Education Collaborative
17. Association of Commonwealth Universities Africa Unit
University World News Africa Edition
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:01:51 +0200
The problems being caused by Thumper and his friends at the Universi...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:43:30 +0200
For several years now - and not for the first time in our nation's h...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:44:36 +0200
For decades, graduate deans have been troubled by low completion rates and long times-to-degree in PhD programmes in the humanities. Now federal and state officials are talking about the need to im...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:52:03 +0200
Two hundred and fifty academics representing universities and colleg...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:52:40 +0200
As French President Nicolas Sarkozy was visiting Haiti last Wednesda...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:53:53 +0200
Whether the chair of biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsvi...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:54:00 +0200
It is easier to climb the social ladder and earn more than one's parents in the Nordic countries, Australia and Canada than in France, Italy, Britain and the United States, according to a new OECD ...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:05:36 +0200
International enrolments in doctoral programmes have grown six-fold ...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:06:00 +0200
So difficult has life become for Australian PhD and masters by resea...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:07:00 +0200
That foreign students tend to complete research masters and doctoral...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:08:27 +0200
British universities have seen a rapid increase in numbers of intern...
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:03:00 +0200
A quarter of all doctoral graduates in South Africa are not from thi...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:17 +0200
Iran's Ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakiri on Wednesday called on the chairman of the Higher Education Commission, Dr Javaid R Laghari, to discuss the prospects of cooperation between the two ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:52:29 +0200
Remedial courses taken by most first-year Emirati university students because high schools fail to prepare them for higher education are to end, write Kathryn Lewis and Daniel Bardsley for ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:54:50 +0200
A sharply increasing number of graduates from universities and colleges are taking entrance examinations in February or March in order to study at graduate schools for masters degrees, reports ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:55:17 +0200
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said last week that the government had formulated a private university law in a bid to ensure discipline, progress, standards and good management in Bangladesh'...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:56:10 +0200
Amy Bishop, neuroscientist, inventor, murder suspect, has become bigger than life, a symbol for those who think that genius is close to madness, or that women cannot get ahead in science, or that t...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:56:53 +0200
China's education ministry has ordered colleges to cut ties with Oxfam and prevent it from recruiting on campuses, accusing its Hong Kong branch of a hidden political agenda, T...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:58:04 +0200
With its sterling reputation and its scientific bent, Shanghai Jiaotong University has the feel of an Ivy League institution, writes David Barboza for The New York Times...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:58:45 +0200
China has denied government links to cyber attacks against the search giant Google, saying such accusations were "irresponsible and calculating", China Daily reports. Th...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:00:04 +0200
The fruit of decades of effort to improve university teaching is under threat at the very time it is needed most as a result of cuts to the higher education budget, it was claimed this week, writes...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:00:55 +0200
The number of managers at UK universities has risen more than three times as fast as the number of academics since 2003, according to Financial Times research, reports D...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:01:54 +0200
Nearly 1,000 former fighters have dropped out of Liberian universities because the cash-strapped government stopped paying their fees as promised, ex-fighters' representatives said, threatening a s...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:03:04 +0200
The Israeli state has come up with a plan to diminish the 'brain drain', writes Meirav Arlosoroff for Haartez. It has proposed establishing a new fund to provide the job...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:03:16 +0200
From investing more in primary education to allowing foreign universities to open campuses in India, the central government is working to bring about a paradigm shift in educational infrastructure ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:04:54 +0200
The advertisement touting the university's co-op programme was ready to go. It featured a lone king penguin in ice-covered Antarctica - "The only continent where you won't find a Northeastern Unive...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:05:10 +0200
The latest in a series of expert studies, The Future of the Internet IV, has reveale...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:06:19 +0200
Branch campuses are sprouting around the world, like mushrooms after a heavy rain. According to the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, the number of branch campuses have increased by 43% t...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:07:00 +0200
Researchers at the University of Hohenheim's Food Security Center (F...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:49:36 +0200
Five years since its establishment the Southern African Regional Universities' Association, Sarua, has made considerable headway in establishing itself as a credible platform for leadership 'conver...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:09:40 +0200
This time last year a UK parliamentary committee of inquiry asked th...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:10:00 +0200
A five-year research project has discovered a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass.
Researchers at Teesside University's contaminated land and water centre began the project ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:11:59 +0200
A breed of mosquito in which the females cannot fly has been develop...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:12:51 +0200
New research from University College London indicates that the abili...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:13:45 +0200
Reuters reports that the funeral of a Darfuri student who was ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:55:00 +0200
CAMES, the 18-member African and Madagascan Council for Higher Education, has launched a ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:50:28 +0200
Tunisian higher education must conform to international standards an...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:53:10 +0200
The five members of the ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:44:47 +0200
Two professors at the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Repub...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:51:01 +0200
Egypt plans to set up an academy of science for young researchers to...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:00:57 +0200
The University of Cape Town has launched an OpenContent Directory tha...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:57:12 +0200
The University of Zimbabwe is battling to recover nearly US$5 millio...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:27:15 +0200
The decision to introduce tuition fees for foreign students has met strong objections by Swedish student unions and a massive e-mail response to Local - Sweden's News in English. But for two...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:26:15 +0200
The government has outlined its plans to introduce tuition and appli...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:30:48 +0200
A decision by the High Court of Australia earlier this month has dis...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:31:53 +0200
A survey of the University of California's 170,000 students has under...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:33:10 +0200
Europe produces more research papers than the US or Japan but needs ...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:34:00 +0200
A meeting of science ministers from across Europe met in San Sebasti...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:35:33 +0200
Confusion over higher education entrance requirements continues acro...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:03:38 +0200
Nigeria's Minister of Youth Development has proposed that the governm...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:45:18 +0200
Only 6% of Zambians access higher education after completing school in a country with a population of nearly 11 million, a higher education body has said.
In a speech this month the director genera...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:47:28 +0200
Two years ago, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) embarked on an ambitious overhaul of its storied research labs, responsible for some of the most momentous computing innovation of the last 40 years, writes Aar...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:51:00 +0200
Hopes in Africa of a decline in infant deaths from diarrhoea have been raised by a study that found a 61.2% reduction in deaths among babies given the RotarixTM vaccine. The research results were c...
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:57:00 +0200
Economically disadvantaged people can trigger frugal, creative and re-combinable innovations that can stimulate the creation of new pedagogies, products and processes. The model I talk about is 'si...