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education leadership, the Southern African Regional Universities Association, or SARUA, is hosting an eight week-long programme aimed at supporting deans of faculties, school directors and heads of centres in the Southern African Development Community.</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=20241117143548493" style="color:#000;">Experts apply science to help resolve transboundary dispute</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alberto Leny</div>For thousands of years, the Nile River has been a vital resource for millions of north-east Africans who rely on it for irrigation, drinking water, fishing and hydroelectric power. The Nile River flows over 6,650km before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. With the Nile being shared by 11 countries, disputes persist.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241110164358340" style="color:#000;">Neuroscientist elected to world’s leading brain body</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Heather Dugmore</div>“Very few people understand how the brain and nervous system work and the dangers to brain health, which is why the neuroscience community is the voice for this,” said Dr Duyilemi Chris Ajonijebu, a behavioural neuroscientist in the department of human physiology at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.</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=20241111072329266" style="color:#000;">Student leaders speak about their ‘University of the Future’</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>As the African continent marks Africa Universities’ Day on 12 November, <I>University World News</I> asked student leaders across the continent to envisage the ‘University of the Future’. Whether from the Gambia, Namibia or Kenya, the leaders touched on similar themes, sending strong messages to the higher education sector and governments.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">NIGER-MALI-BURKINA FASO</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=2024110519315720" style="color:#000;">Universities struggle as military rulers fight other threats</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Chiaka Doumbia and Labarou Baba</div>Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have been caught up in political turmoil. From coups to Islamist insurgencies, these West African Sahel countries have been experiencing a lack of safety and security. What has been the state of higher education during this time?</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=20241103170308683" style="color:#000;">Top universities go all out with space, maritime, health tech</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wilson Odhiambo</div>It was win after win after win for Kenya’s higher education sector during the second half of 2024 as three of its top universities took huge leaps in three different disciplines, not just offering students new career possibilities and hands-on training, but also tackling sustainable development.</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=20241103134302797" style="color:#000;">First woman with Mining Eng PhD: Victory for gender equality</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>Women are under-represented in leadership and teaching roles in Zambia’s engineering faculties, says the first Zambian woman to obtain a PhD in mining engineering, Dr Ebelia Manda. The main reason is that women are not encouraged to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.</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=20241028053330485" style="color:#000;">From Kenya to South Africa on a solar-powered e-motorcycle</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>In a feat of engineering and endurance, a solar-powered electric motorcycle designed and built in Africa has completed a 6,000-km trip from Kenya to South Africa. As the outcome of a partnership between university researchers and an electric mobility company in Africa, the trip proved that Africans can create sustainable solutions for their and the continent’s own needs.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">UGANDA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241029090029211" style="color:#000;">AI can lighten teaching load if lecturers determine its tasks</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nakweya</div>Artificial intelligence could help university lecturers reduce their increasing teaching workload as massification continues to intensify, especially at public universities. However, AI adoption is hindered by factors including a lack of policy guidelines, funds and skills, a Ugandan study shows.</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=20241028163441608" style="color:#000;">Turning cities into sustainable urban food production areas</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wilson Odhiambo</div>Thanks to Kenyatta University’s adoption of the INCiTiS-FOOD project, urban areas in Kenya could finally start relying on their own freshly produced food. The project uses innovative techonologies such as hydroponics and aquaponics, and insect farming to take on urban production challenges.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA-GLOBAL</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241028152505104" style="color:#000;">Big four’s policy shifts drive global student interest to SA</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Maina Waruru</div>Africa’s biggest international study destination, South Africa, could gain from international students who now face additional barriers to studying in the big four destinations of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Australia due to policy changes. The country’s larger metropolitan universities would benefit the most.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241022105702579" style="color:#000;">Reforms in university system progressing – but slowly</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Godfrey Olukya</div>The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ambitious plans to reform its universities and higher education system are progressing steadily, although faced with challenges. It includes establishing the grade designations of graduates for the new Licence-Master-Doctorate, or LMD, system.</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=20241023192101323" style="color:#000;">Nobel in Africa symposium spotlights cardiovascular medicine</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>A Nobel symposium held in South Africa this week has focused on cardiovascular medicine on the continent, while simultaneously showcasing the crucial contributions of African scientists in this important field. In 2022, the first-ever Nobel Symposium outside of Scandinavia was hosted at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.</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=20241020170845925" style="color:#000;">A flicker of hope: Universities start digitising transcripts</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi</div>After years of processing academic transcripts manually, causing long delays, and denying many students the benefit of further studies abroad or better work opportunities, several universities in Nigeria have initiated online transcript systems to deliver an effective service. Students can now apply online.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241020112740830" style="color:#000;">Dedication, not wealth, the key to success – Trailblazer</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>When she was growing up, Professor Hassina Mouri wanted to be a doctor. But when the time came, she was so scared of not being able to help save the lives of ill people that she opted for geology. Today she is a metamorphic petrologist who specialises in medical geology.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOMALIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241016144859402" style="color:#000;">Universities beef up security as Al-Shabaab threat grows</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Ramadhan Rajab</div>Universities in Somalia are facing heightened alerts as the country’s security situation continues to deteriorate. While Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has been pushed away from controlling large swathes of Somalia, especially in the country’s south over the past 12 years, it has recently increased terror attacks.</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=20241015084618719" style="color:#000;">‘From lab to land’: Real research should impact end users</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Scovian Lillian</div>When Professor of Horticulture Jane Ambuko landed her first research project from Kenya’s National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation, she realised that smallholder farmers faced a massive problem: food loss and waste, especially fruit and vegetables. She is looking for solutions.</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=20241016140419861" style="color:#000;">Africa and Europe unite to tackle food-systems challenges</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>World Food Day, observed on 16 October, highlighted the critical need for action to ensure the ‘right to food for a better life and a better future’. The newly launched Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems, or CoRE-SFS, is poised to play a key role in achieving this goal.</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=2024091712122758" style="color:#000;">PhD training: What calibre of graduates does Africa want?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Doctoral training in Africa faces multiple challenges to the extent that the universities cannot produce sufficient experts to contribute to research output, innovations and economic and scientific growth, according to four Nigerian academics who explored completion issues PhD candidates on the continent have.</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=20241013203239295" style="color:#000;">Student project tackles post-harvest losses, wins big award</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti</div>When she grew up, Claudine Kamanzi’s parents practised traditional farming, as more than 70% of Rwandans still do. However, poor post-harvest methods result in a staggering amount of perishable produce going to waste. Efforts to improve farming methods did not solve the problem.</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=20241006203912486" style="color:#000;">Human rights guru made his mark, led students to do the same</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>The late Zambian Professor Michelo Kennedy Hansungule was a towering figure in the teaching of law across the globe, cultivating torchbearers in the fight for human rights, particularly in African countries. Many of his students are leaders in their own right in the field.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">TANZANIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241008185714395" style="color:#000;">Helping vulnerable children has been Harvard winner’s goal</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>Tanzanian academic Karim Manji, a medical professor at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, has earned the top alumni award from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. He is the first person from his country to win the accolade.</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=20241003111135227" style="color:#000;">Africa-Europe research collaboration gains more momentum</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Desmond Thompson</div>Over 200 leading researchers from Africa and Europe convened in South Africa this week to take stock of the first year of a unique collaboration aimed at tackling major global challenges. The Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence initiative has been described as a success in science diplomacy.</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=20241002175500369" style="color:#000;">Decaying sanitation infrastructure has academic consequences</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi</div>The poor state of infrastructure, in particular that of toilet facilities, on many university campuses in Nigeria is affecting students’ health and, as a result, their academic performance. Universities need to upgrade facilities, maintain them and consider proper waste disposal mechanisms as well as water-saving fixtures, experts say.</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=20240929173850182" style="color:#000;">Award-winning maths guru makes a difference where his roots are</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Mathematician and teacher Professor Ali Baklouti received the Royal Society Africa Prize 2024 for his work on non-commutative harmonic analysis and geometry on homogeneous spaces. He started his academic career in France, but returned home where he inspires and encourages young minds.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">CAPE VERDE</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240929162302976" style="color:#000;">Cape Verde invests in travel industry degrees to boost economy</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Andreia Nogueira</div>Cape Verde’s Atlantic Technical University (<I>Universidade Técnica do Atlântico</I>) opened an institute focusing on the travel industry on 1 October 2024, offering new degrees in tourism management and promotion and civil aviation management. It will operate on the island of Sal.</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=20240926104941635" style="color:#000;">Sustainability – How are African universities faring?</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Although there are pockets of institutional excellence when it comes to the incorporation of sustainability education into African universities’ teaching, research and outreach activities, experts say there is some way to go before sustainability achieves its rightful place in African higher education.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240924131547479" style="color:#000;">Incoming vice-chancellor reflects on transformation’s lessons</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Edwin Naidu</div>When he formally assumes the position of vice-chancellor of the University of the Western Cape in January 2025, applied linguist, postcolonial literary critic and educationist Professor Robert Balfour is likely to be the first head of a university in South Africa who is openly from the LGBTIQ+ community.</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=20240925142214606" style="color:#000;">Boko Haram kept them from school; now they are students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Jesusegun Alagbe</div>Some of the children who survived abductions by the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria and have been released have gone on to university study, despite indoctrination attempts by the group which forbids Western education. Despite their past traumas, these students are determined to succeed.</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=20240922191413675" style="color:#000;">Student services ensuring menstrual health sorely lacking</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Fatimah Hamid</div>Universities should acknowledge and address menstruation-related issues by not just raising awareness among men and women students, but also dispelling the stigma, and creating an environment on campus conducive to menstrual health and hygiene. This includes flexibility with class attendance.</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=2024091811011756" style="color:#000;">Pharmacogenomics pioneer to lead first multinational study</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Zimbabwean researcher and pharmacogenomics champion Professor Collen Masimirembwa will be at the helm of the first multinational pharmacogenomics-guided treatment study in Africa. The aim of the study is to establish how genes affect people’s response to medications.</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=20240715103912668" style="color:#000;">Closing the gap between student mental illness and treatment</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and depression are higher among university students in Sub-Saharan Africa than in the general population, a situation that raises concerns about the relatively poor rates of treatment at higher education campuses in the region.</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=20240918092406438" style="color:#000;">Mental health: Many universities lack support units for students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Afeez Bolaji</div>A nursing student at Havarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies in Ogun State, Nigeria, sank into a depression that reached a tipping point earlier this year. She decided to end it and, on the evening of 19 February, upon arrival at a hospital, was confirmed dead. <br /> </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=20240912221315830" style="color:#000;">Funding model exposes fault lines in Kenya’s HE sector</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nganga</div>The ongoing sporadic university student protests, the fallout over the new funding model for students and a lecturers’ strike have exposed the fault lines in Kenya’s higher education sector and worsened the crisis facing institutions. The state of affairs is a clarion call to stakeholders to take action.</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=20240911201801441" style="color:#000;">How a student-founded book club has boosted African literature</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi</div>A student-founded book club in Nigeria has been a champion for African literature and a culture of reading, in particular by reminding young people, including university students, about reading for entertainment and pleasure. The Book O’Clock club has also been playing its part in enhancing the literacy levels of school learners.</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=20240908165843944" style="color:#000;">Improved services empower students for the global job market</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Scovian Lillian</div>Interest in student affairs and services is expanding worldwide, complemented by a growing commitment to provide students with a more informed entry into the competitive global world. With the increasing population and diversity of students, new areas that require attention and support keep on emerging.</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=20240621061848526" style="color:#000;">Exploring the benefits of digital student support services</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Understaffed and frequently under-resourced, student services divisions in African universities have much to gain by looking beyond their traditional methods of service delivery to the use of digital platforms, according to a range of African academics interviewed here by <I>University World News</I>.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA-SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240701104631731" style="color:#000;">Digital libraries: A lifeline for visually impaired students</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Zachariah Mushawatu</div>Despite an increase in the number of visually impaired students attending universities across Africa, digital libraries offering assistive technologies that cater to their specific needs are not yet consistently available – although there are some facilities and services that showcase what is possible.</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=2024090908464529" style="color:#000;">New mosque means no more worshipping in shifts at MKU</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wilson Odhiambo</div>“Alhamdulillah [praise be to Allah]!” is all Yusuf Aziz could say to express his gratitude when Mount Kenya University built a mosque to accommodate its substantial number of Muslim students. Aziz is one of the thousands of Muslim students at the institution.</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=20240821211953279" style="color:#000;">How Africa can help to tackle global bibliometric coloniality</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wagdy Sawahel</div>Since the scholarly platforms and academic research from the African continent and much of the Global South are largely invisible on the global stage, measures for dismantling bibliometric coloniality and promoting African knowledge platforms must be explored, including the creation of an African scholarly index and African bibliometric platform.</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=2024090323222736" style="color:#000;">Women students turn to karate to counter GBV on campuses</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>A growing number of female university students in Zimbabwe are joining karate clubs on campuses as a self-defence strategy in case they have to face gender-based violence or other dangers such as armed robberies. At present, there are clubs on the campuses of eight public universities.</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=20240821211444612" style="color:#000;">Foster science leadership to advance sustainability – Experts</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Eve Ruwoko</div>For the Global South to address emerging challenges across sectors such as water, climate, environment, food security and transport, there is a need to foster scientific leadership within academic institutions. In Africa, higher education institutions have been playing a crucial role in fostering sustainability leadership.</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=20240831094149394" style="color:#000;">Peer educators help students cope with GBV, drugs, abortion</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>Involving students as peer educators and counsellors in psychosocial support services at the Harare Institute of Technology in Zimbabwe encourages, especially, women who grapple with issues such as gender-based violence and drug abuse, to talk about them. Support from UNESCO strengthens the system.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240818130753531" style="color:#000;">Lack of sexual reproductive health, contraceptives a concern</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Augustin Sadiki</div>Many higher education institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lack sexual and reproductive health services and contraceptives, leaving students with little support. Ignorance coupled with societal taboos often leave students who fall pregnant alone and afraid.</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=20240715074519167" style="color:#000;">‘We are not nurseries’: Student moms have no campus support</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Olabisi Deji-Folutile</div>Although most public universities in the Sub-Saharan African region would acknowledge the right of their female students, as adults, to produce babies, most universities are yet to develop a formal policy that makes provision for the safety and care of students’ offspring on campus.</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=20240709071329173" style="color:#000;">Here’s how universities are tackling gender-based violence</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Olabisi Deji-Folutile</div>In spite of global and national attention to gender-based violence, tertiary institutions in Nigeria continue to be a hotbed of abuse. <I>University World News</I> reached out to several higher education institutions in Nigeria to find out how they are tackling the ongoing scourge and what support is on offer.</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=20240904164347274" style="color:#000;">Risky behaviour like on-campus gambling, sex work increasing</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Wachira Kigotho</div>Emerging risky behaviour among university students in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the young adults making the transition from school to university, is steadily outpacing traditional dangerous actions such as the high consumption of alcohol, use of illicit drugs and tobacco, and risky sexual behaviour.</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=20240818114200813" style="color:#000;">Breastfeeding rooms bring peace of mind, help prevent dropouts</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Alice Tembasi</div>The University of Rwanda has taken significant strides in addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of its students. Professor Didas Kayihura Muganga, the vice-chancellor, says the clinics, centres and clubs on the campus, including new breastfeeding rooms, offer support to students.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA-KENYA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240722043303888" style="color:#000;">By investing in student well-being, we invest in the future</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Scovian Lillian</div>Professor Washington Okeyo, vice-chancellor of the Management University of Africa, believes that student services in higher learning institutions have a direct impact on students’ academic success while also helping to develop individuals who are better equipped to contribute to society and the workforce.</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=20240722044654112" style="color:#000;">Meeting student support needs in an ever-changing world</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Scovian Lillian</div>Sophie Chuaga, the dean of students at Taita Taveta University, a public university located in Voi, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya, believes that student support services are vital for the holistic development of students in both public and private institutions of higher learning.</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=20240624070106409" style="color:#000;">Help is at hand: An insider view into meeting student needs</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Francis Kokutse</div>Established in 1997, the Directorate of Student Affairs (formerly the Office of the Dean of Students) at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, or KNUST, in Ghana has made significant progress in meeting the specific needs of its students. KNUST director of communications Daniel Norris Bekoe shared his insights.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">GHANA-NIGERIA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240826193323707" style="color:#000;">Blended learning programme changed their lives, students say</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Clemence Manyukwe</div>An assessment of a three-year blended learning programme implemented in West Africa by the Association of Commonwealth Universities has established that there is a need to adopt blended-learning thresholds and accreditation models distinct from traditional teaching programmes.</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=20240825172418676" style="color:#000;">Technicians play vital role in knowledge exchange – Study</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Scovian Lillian</div>Technicians are important to any research system, laboratory or community. They are early adopters of new and emerging technologies, practices and methodologies – thus, they are key in the process of transferring knowledge.</div> <div style="padding-bottom:12px;border-top: 1px solid #a2b6c9;padding-top:10px;"><div class="byline-country countries">SOUTH AFRICA</div><div style="padding-bottom:4px"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20240827211421814" style="color:#000;">Professor Brian O’Connell: Visionary vice-chancellor hailed</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Edwin Naidu</div>Professor Brian O’Connell, the respected former vice-chancellor of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, who died on 25 August, was hailed as a visionary leader with an unwavering commitment to an agenda promoting progressive education as a public good and for equality and social justice.</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=20240826174025538" style="color:#000;">SDGs: Students positive about HE, doubt poverty will be erased</a></h1></div><div class="byline-country botmar2">Gilbert Nakweya</div>University students in Ghana are optimistic that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, on quality education, gender equality and clean water will be achieved by 2030, but are less optimistic about poverty and hunger.</div> <div style="width:715px;height:0px"></div></td> <td style="width:261px;margin-left:10px;border-left:1px solid #999;padding-left:10px" valign="top"> <div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=stelunijul2023"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=stelunijul2023" style="width:250px;height:400px" alt="stelunijul2023"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=uaeuoct2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=uaeuoct2024" style="" alt="uaeuoct2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=uukconfnov2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=uukconfnov2024" style="" alt="uukconfnov2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=abetsympoct2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=abetsympoct2024" style="" alt="abetsympoct2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=iauaug2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=iauaug2024" style="" alt="iauaug2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=gulfconftlfnov2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=gulfconftlfnov2024" style="" alt="gulfconftlfnov2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=nafsanov2024"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=nafsanov2024" style="" alt="nafsanov2024"></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerclick.php?id=hetl"><img src="https://ads.universityworldnews.com/bannerview.php?id=hetl" style="width:250px;height:250px" alt="hetl"></a></div></div> <div></div> <div></div> </td> </tr></table> </div> <div id="footer" class="wdiv p8px" style="font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background:#000;color:#fff"> <a href="page.php?page=UW_Main">Global</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Africa_Edition">Africa</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Asia_Hub">Asia</a> | <a href="page.php?page=SDGs_Hub">SDGs</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Edtech_AI_Hub">Edtech/AI</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Commentary_Hub">Commentary</a> | <a href="topic-page.php?topic=World_Blog">World Blog</a> | <a href="special-report.php?publication=global">Special Reports</a> | <a href="page.php?page=subscribe">Subscribe</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Careers_at_UWN">Careers at UWN</a> <br> <a href="bookmarks.php">Bookmarks</a> | <a href="page.php?page=About_Us">About Us</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Advertising">Advertise</a> | <a href="page.php?page=sponsor-partner-profservices">Sponsorship</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Terms_Conditions">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="page.php?page=Contact_Us_Intro">Contact</a> | <a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/fb/">Facebook</a> | <a href="version-force.php?ver=mobile">Mobile Site</a> </div> <div id="footer" class="wdiv p8px" style="font-size:12px;background:#000;color:#fff;border-top:1px solid #444">Copyright 2024 University World News</div> </div> </div> </div> <script> </script> <script> var bb = new BankersBox(1); 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