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education explored strategies for equitable, collaborative research between high-, low- and middle-income countries towards a sustainable energy future.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">KENYA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241126124031928" style="color:#000;">Bill seeks to speed up university chancellor appointments</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nganga</div>A new bill in Kenya seeks to dramatically simplify the university chancellor appointment process by removing the Public Service Commission from the process and allowing university senates to engage directly with the presidency in leadership selections.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">KENYA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241124122853114" style="color:#000;">Plans to use university sports science to boost athletes lauded</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wilson Odhiambo</div>Sports in Kenya have been struggling for decades to compete favourably on the global stage, despite the country proving that it has the talent needed to be a global giant. Now, for the first time, the ministry of sports has opted to find solutions to the struggles through science.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241127102605301" style="color:#000;">Rector calls for help to take tricycle innovation to market</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi</div>Staff and students at a polytechnic in Nigeria’s Ogun State have heeded the call to contribute towards national innovation and local needs by building a solar-powered electric automated tricycle which offers an affordable alternative to petrol-powered transportation. Now, they want support to take it further.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">TUNISIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241128060800565" style="color:#000;">Ministry unveils plans to position country as global HE hub</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is working to lay the foundations to position Tunisia as a higher education hub and scientific research destination at international and regional levels as a means to develop education quality and enhance research and innovation.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">WEST AFRICA-UNITED KINGDOM</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241127093100579" style="color:#000;">UK university opens its first African S&T hub in Ghana</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Imperial College London has launched its first African hub in Ghana, becoming the first UK university to have a permanent base solely focused on science and technology development in Africa aimed at strengthening collaboration in research, technology, education and entrepreneurship.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ESWATINI</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241127075620808" style="color:#000;">Government pulls plug on funding for humanities students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Phathizwe Zulu</div>The government of Eswatini has announced it will stop granting scholarships to bachelor of arts in humanities students next year. Critics say the move defies the country’s regional obligations and will worsen the shortage of teachers. It may also be intended to crush political activism.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241127070228750" style="color:#000;">Survey finds 63% of female students are sexually harassed</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Afeez Bolaji</div>A comprehensive new report indicates that at least 63% of female students in Nigerian universities experience sexual harassment at the hands of staff and their fellow students. Meanwhile, an anti-harassment bill drafted in 2019 still awaits presidential assent to make it law.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAMEROON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241126113553518" style="color:#000;">University staff among those axed in ghost worker crackdown</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>More than 1,000 public servants in Cameroon, including employees in higher education institutions who have been perpetually absent from their posts but still earning salaries from the state, have been fired as part of a state-wide crackdown on ghost workers in the public service.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">TAIWAN-AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024112609453242" style="color:#000;">Taiwan universities deepen health research ties in Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>Universities in Taiwan are deepening their research links with African universities, especially in the fields of health and medicine, by entering into collaborations with universities in Eastern and Southern Africa and offering doctoral training opportunities for students, among other benefits.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">MOROCCO</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241126080441525" style="color:#000;">New academy launched to promote African health sovereignty</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>The Mohammed VI Foundation for Science and Health announced the launch last week of the African Academy of Health Sciences in Morocco, part of a bid to promote research and education in health sciences which meet the needs of the African continent.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTHERN AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241125141749720" style="color:#000;">UNESCO’s quality assurance project to benefit nine countries</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa has started an initiative to strengthen quality assurance in higher education across countries in the Southern African Development Community aimed at supporting the pursuit of quality enhancement in the region and institutional cooperation across the continent.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">KENYA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241124111032746" style="color:#000;">Students suffer emotional and material effects of strikes</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wilson Odhiambo</div>The September-December 2024 academic semester in Kenya is already almost over and, according to student leaders across the nation, students continue to miss lessons in what seems like a standoff between the Kenyan government and university lecturers.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024112109420281" style="color:#000;">Senator’s attempt to lobby VC for admission raises ethical flag</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Afeez Bolaji</div>A letter by Nigerian federal lawmaker Senator Dr Tony Nwoye, lobbying the vice-chancellor of the University of Abuja to secure admission for five candidates has been widely criticised, raising concerns over ethical issues surrounding the admission process in many government-run universities.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZIMBABWE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113150010932" style="color:#000;">Zimbabwe’s president launches study into slavery reparations</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched an academic study into the impact of colonialism on the African country that will culminate in the demand for reparations from former colonial power, Britain. Vice-chancellors and academics will focus on the cost of colonial injustices.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120110854797" style="color:#000;">Research grants set to enhance lecturers’, students’ grasp of AI</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nakweya</div>Two African universities, in Ghana and Kenya, are part of a group of higher learning institutions that have received research grants from a global company specialising in ethical AI-for-learning technology. They will enable the universities to evaluate how the tool affects student learning across cultural and socio-economic contexts.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120114513390" style="color:#000;">International students cite reasons for not studying in Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>The affordability of tuition fees, the cost of living and concerns over housing facilities remain among the biggest obstacles for foreign students before they choose to study at institutions in Africa, according to respondents in a study of emerging enrolment trends.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA-RUSSIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120142700110" style="color:#000;">Russia increases scholarships for students from Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>The implementation of a Russia-Africa higher education and scientific research action plan is under way, aimed at enhancing educational exchanges, strengthening institutional ties, promoting university partnerships, carrying out joint research and creating opportunities to learn Russian as well as African languages.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAMEROON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120075502894" style="color:#000;">ECOWAS climate centre uses COP29 to show its regional impact</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, or WASCAL, a regional body that offers capacity-building and research-focused services in the fight against climate change, has showcased its work – and the impact it has on enhancing climate resilience in West Africa – at COP29.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">EGYPT</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241119072541730" style="color:#000;">Pan-African University for Technological Education planned</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Egypt plans to establish a Pan-African University for Technological Education to link technical and technological education in a bid to produce African graduates with the skills to do the jobs of the future – and share its experience in technological education with the continent.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ESWATINI</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241120101710605" style="color:#000;">University falls apart amid struggles to pay staff, providers</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>The monetary crisis at the University of Eswatini is coming to a head after the institution recently failed to pay service providers, resulting in its water supply being cut off. Some staff members stayed home from Wednesday 20 November. The institution is blaming its woes on the government.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA-NETHERLANDS</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241117095659146" style="color:#000;">Universities in green hydrogen ‘moonshot’ for Africa, Europe</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>Southern Africa can become a powerhouse in the global green hydrogen revolution, thanks to a groundbreaking initiative led by universities in Africa and Europe – a research and innovation hub dedicated to green hydrogen. Southern Africa, with its abundant solar and wind resources, is ideally positioned to become a major supplier of green hydrogen.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">MOZAMBIQUE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241118122232779" style="color:#000;">Post-election political protests disrupt academic activities</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Ongoing political protests in Mozambique have disrupted learning at institutions of higher learning across the country, amid claims that some students who participated in the demonstrations have been kidnapped and tortured. The turmoil is being discussed at a Southern African Development Community summit.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GERMANY-SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241112100506103" style="color:#000;">Germany backs African agricultural and food science project</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Michael Gardner</div>The German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD, is supporting the establishment of a new agricultural and food science research centre in collaboration with South Africa that will enhance the training of young scientists.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAMEROON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241117112607277" style="color:#000;">Anti-corruption unit ready to fight ‘wallet vs merit’ war</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>Cameroon’s National Anti-Corruption Commission has flagged corruption and fake certificates as two of the most worrying issues plaguing the country’s higher education system. This has become endemic, despite being contrary to the presidential policy to promote good governance as pathways towards economic emergence by 2035.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZIMBABWE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241117153718234" style="color:#000;">Court orders institution to withdraw honorary doctorates</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>The High Court in Zimbabwe has directed the withdrawal of all honorary degrees by a private institution following a lawsuit initiated by the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education. The council is threatening legal action against those who continue to use their awarded degrees.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241114040053139" style="color:#000;">Africa’s scientists present at COP29, but are under-represented</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eve Ruwoko</div>African scientists have been raising their voices to advocate for the region’s top priorities, including climate adaptation and finance, as experts at COP29 began deliberating on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan, about climate change under the theme ‘In Solidarity for a Green World’.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAMEROON</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241112112253422" style="color:#000;">Loud calls from scientists for climate change research funding</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>Researchers, students and administrators from universities in Cameroon agreed that building the scientific capacity of environmental stakeholders should be a priority in higher education institutions to come up with solutions to tackle the climate crisis.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">BOTSWANA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241114040533302" style="color:#000;">New president wants changes in the higher education system</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Botswana’s newly elected president has pledged to chart a new path in higher education and science, including the establishment of a national scientific, industrial and research council made up of academics as well as representatives of labour, the private sector and civil society.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">MOROCCO</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113091916888" style="color:#000;">University takes lead in Africa as it deploys new AI tool</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>The seven-year-old Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, a leading institution in Morocco, has become the first university in Africa to announce the implementation of an artificial intelligence-powered learning system, ChatGPT Edu, to enhance educational and administrative functions across the institution.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">KENYA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241110172742255" style="color:#000;">Eco-friendly solar tuk-tuk could turn transport on its head</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wilson Odhiambo</div>With Kenya set on ensuring a 32% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, Zetech University in Nairobi opted to lend a hand by building the first solar-powered tuk-tuk in the country, a move that is expected to revolutionise the transport industry.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NAMIBIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241110160707530" style="color:#000;">Dean gets grant to help lower university’s carbon footprint</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>In a move that has been hailed by the Namibian Chamber of Environment, the University of Namibia is set to reduce its carbon footprint following the institution’s recent purchase of five electric vehicles using a grant from the Welsh government and funding from Cardiff University.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTHERN AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113071231948" style="color:#000;">New book highlights climate crisis facing Southern Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>A new book offers critical insights into the climate change challenges facing Southern Africa and the science-based interventions needed to safeguard its unique ecosystems. The nearly 1,000 pager is the outcome of a collaborative effort, spanning a decade and involving hundreds of researchers.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241113132658516" style="color:#000;">What does the ideal 21st-century graduate look like?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>African universities need to carry out reforms in their curricula, change their teaching approaches and methods and re-orient the foci of the education they impart if they are to train and produce graduates fit for the 21st century. But what qualities and skills should these graduates have?</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZAMBIA-ZIMBABWE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241110153949412" style="color:#000;">Students blame power cuts on drought and bad governance</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>Tertiary education students are reeling from the effects of incessant power cuts in Zimbabwe and Zambia. On average, power cuts in both countries are lasting 14-20 hours a day, or longer in extreme cases. Also, it seems to be worse at smaller institutions and student housing off campus.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">MOROCCO</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024111207104390" style="color:#000;">Open science, resource strategy to enhance research visibility</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Morocco’s Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation has launched a national strategy for open educational resources and open science in a bid to improve the accessibility, sharing and visibility of educational resources and research results. It feeds into the country’s Digital Morocco 2030 initiative.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241107071208990" style="color:#000;">Africa’s publishing landscape in urgent need of collaboration</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>Stronger collaboration in Africa’s publishing industry, including the higher education sector, is a matter of urgency, was a message from the recent Business of Books Conference in Zimbabwe. The industry could also benefit from what a new study in six countries in Africa calls “changing consumer behaviour” emanating from publishing methods that include new technologies and social media.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZAMBIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241106091827446" style="color:#000;">Students fined for destruction of property during protest</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>Students at the Copperbelt University in Zambia have criticised the university’s decision to levy a blanket fine on students following the destruction of property at its Riverside campus during violent student protests earlier this year. Some say they cannot afford to pay the money.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241105115723293" style="color:#000;">Robust gender equity policies are needed for HE – Report</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Women in Africa are currently heavily under-represented in leadership positions in higher education compared to other global regions, regardless of their management abilities and academic qualifications. UNESCO urges African governments to establish robust gender equity policies focusing on higher education leadership to close the diversity gap.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241107040913481" style="color:#000;">Education has new head, ousted minister’s ‘sins’ revealed</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jesusegun Alagbe</div>The ministry of education is one of the portfolios affected after Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, amid intensifying and ongoing calls to change his cabinet, finally bowed to pressure, sacking five of his 48 ministers, reassigning 10 to other ministries, and appointing seven new ministers.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">RWANDA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241103142557963" style="color:#000;">Calls for synergy to equip engineers for real-world issues</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti</div>As the world faces unprecedented challenges, from climate change to urbanisation and access to clean water, to affordable and clean energy, highly trained engineers have emerged as critical players in driving the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241105100439750" style="color:#000;">Network for international office practitioners launched</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>Actors in international education in Africa have, for the very first time, launched a network for international office practitioners that can serve as a platform to bring together those who are working at the coalface. The Network for International Office Practitioners Group was launched in Accra, Ghana, recently.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">DJIBOUTI-EAST AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024110504164731" style="color:#000;">Regional hub aims to tackle climate challenges in East Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Djibouti has unveiled a plan to become a regional hub to improve the East African region’s climate risk management capacity through the development of human resources, the promotion of climate change research and enhancing space technology capabilities.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA-EUROPE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241031054909587" style="color:#000;">Funding injection for South-North sustainable energy research</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>As COP29 approaches in mid-November and the world grapples with the urgent need to combat climate change while expanding electricity access for the excluded, a new wave of funding for sustainable energy research is set to empower researchers from Africa and Europe.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">MOROCCO-FRANCE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241030190937545" style="color:#000;">Morocco, France join forces to set up new research centre</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Morocco, in cooperation with France, will establish a joint research centre, the first of its kind in Africa, for supporting scientific and technological innovation for sustainable development in the region. It is one of several recent initiatives in the region that appears to be targeting anti-French sentiments.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">DJIBOUTI</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241030081630346" style="color:#000;">New coding and IT school to grow digitally skilled workforce</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Djibouti plans to establish a new coding and computer science school – the Djibouti Code Campus – to develop a digitally skilled workforce and turn the country in East Africa into a digital hub by 2035. The campus will offer free, accessible training in high-demand areas such as artificial intelligence and coding.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GHANA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024103013343947" style="color:#000;">Part-time lecturers are affecting quality in private HE</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Francis Kokutse</div>The over-reliance of Ghana’s private universities on part-time and adjunct faculty is affecting teaching consistency and quality, which have been identified as among the many problems these new higher education institutions are facing, an education expert has said.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GHANA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=202410231959374" style="color:#000;">Africa’s commitment to fund HE harmonisation questioned</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Francis Kokutse</div>Attempts to create a Pan-African programme to harmonise quality assurance and accreditation processes in Africa, which is being supported by international partners, have been criticised because Africa remains dependent on foreign support to fund most of its developmental initiatives on the continent.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">BURUNDI</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241030062025771" style="color:#000;">Universities expect new high-speed internet to benefit them</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Peter Mucanga</div>The arrival of Starlink’s high-speed satellite internet service by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Burundi has sparked significant enthusiasm among users, especially students and researchers from different universities hoping that it will revolutionise academic activities. Universities are among the main beneficiaries.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA-PALESTINE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241029130203831" style="color:#000;">‘Why I gave prize money to Palestinian cause’ – Saleem Badat</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>The Academy of Science of South Africa has awarded a Science-for-Society Gold Medal to Professor Saleem Badat, a prominent figure in the country’s higher education sector. In his acceptance speech, he announced he would donate his prize money to the Palestinian cause.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241028141626145" style="color:#000;">Controversy over appointment process of vice-chancellor</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulrasheed Hammad</div>Controversy has been surrounding the process to appoint a new vice-chancellor for the University of Abuja in Nigeria. One of the key questions has been the number of years a candidate has had to be a full professor before becoming the head of an institution.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAMEROON-FRANCE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241028091734871" style="color:#000;">A visa bonanza for students who want to study in France</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Elias Ngalame</div>Thousands of Cameroonian students are set to benefit from efforts by the French authorities to increase the number of student visas by making the application process easier. This emerged during gatherings in Yaoundé and Douala to promote study opportunities in France.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241024223708229" style="color:#000;">Angry students set fire to provost’s house, destroy his car</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulrasheed Hammad</div>The Kebbi State College of Health Sciences and Technology in Jega, Nigeria, has remained closed for longer than a week after angry students set fire to the residence and destroyed the car of the college provost, Haruna Saidu-Sauwa, over the alleged non-accreditation of three courses as well as accusations of extortion.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241023205930690" style="color:#000;">21 universities to tackle Africa’s water, sanitation hurdles</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alberto Leny</div>The African Union is partnering with 21 African universities to tackle and provide sustainable solutions for Africa’s water challenges and climate resilience. Discussions are under way for a new African water vision and policy framework after the Africa Water Week conference in Egypt.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">MALAWI</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022144258234" style="color:#000;">Alumni association establishes fund to assist students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>The Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences alumni association, working in collaboration with the university’s administration, has set up a fund to assist MUBAS students with tuition fees and other educational expenses. Those driving the initiative would like alumni at other universities to follow suit.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SENEGAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024102215494420" style="color:#000;">Private HE sector wants cut of undergraduate enrolments</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2"></div>The association representing private higher education institutions in Senegal, CUDOPES, has called on the government to include the private sector when new students are given guidance for university enrolment, to achieve better academic organisation and reduction of the failure rate in public universities “which cannot satisfy demand on their own”.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTHERN AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241023091810464" style="color:#000;">SARUA builds community of practice towards impactful research</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eve Ruwoko</div>The Southern African Regional Universities Association, or SARUA, as part of its quest as a network of higher education institutions that want to contribute towards societally impactful research, is mapping the incentives and barriers that are affecting research and innovation systems in the region.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022075257664" style="color:#000;">Much to be done to advance philanthropic practices in Africa</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Dedicated fundraising offices, investment in staff training, prioritising engagement with alumni, showcasing the contributions of everyday donors and the integration of philanthropy in university curriculums are measures that higher education institutions in Africa could introduce to advance their interaction with individual and institutional donors.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024102223342466" style="color:#000;">Adoption of agricultural technologies urgent, scientists say</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nakweya</div>Harnessing and accelerating the adoption of new agricultural technologies and innovations can help Africa realise the targets of its Agenda 2063’s flagship programme, the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme, says the director of the Biotechnology Research Institute at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024102207030187" style="color:#000;">University gatherings focus on Africa’s hunger crisis</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>As the world marked World Food Day on 16 October, attention was given to the urgent need to combat the escalating hunger crisis in Africa. Leading researchers, policy-makers and civil society representatives came together in Cape Town to tackle the growing food insecurity.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">ZIMBABWE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241020100600264" style="color:#000;">HE stakeholders upset over controversial minister’s selection</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Frederick Shava as the new minister of higher and tertiary education, innovation, science and technology development, but education stakeholders doubt that he is the right man for the challenging job. Shava has been the foreign affairs minister since 2021.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241018054738775" style="color:#000;">New committee to tackle ongoing labour disputes in Nigeria</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi</div>In an effort to avert industrial action in all public universities, the Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a seven-member committee to probe 2009 agreements with university-based unions. The aim is to resolve the issues that have contributed to ongoing disruptions in the country’s higher education sector.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241015082726110" style="color:#000;">Scientists intensify crop research for agri-transformation</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alberto Leny</div>Crop scientists, plant breeders and plant pathologists at African universities and research institutes are intensifying efforts to accelerate Africa’s agricultural transformation through science, technology and innovation. 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