Africa

Doctoral graduates’ occupation of Higher Education Ministry will do little by itself to solve a structural problem, says Kenneth Nsah

Apart from the ecological degradation, the conference circuit is riven by socio-economic, class, race and gender divides, say Ambreena Manji and three others

New institutions will add nothing unless there is a greater emphasis on quality, says Eric Fredua-Kwarteng

Tawana Kupe says pandemic will ‘exacerbate existing inequalities’ in South Africa

Equitable collaborations are key to ensuring that universities can best respond to the SDGs, says Joanna Newman

Virtual THE forum hears academics and funders explore how research landscape may change in wake of virus crisis

Tributes paid to ‘African icon’ who drove forward decolonisation at Cape Town

The Middle East and North Africa have large youth populations and growing university participation. But with high unemployment, low female workplace participation and universities focused on STEM and the public sector, is all this human capital being wasted? Simon Baker reports 

Leading university networks in Africa and Europe say a body based on the European Research Council is needed to boost African research

Developing countries cannot cower from technological progress if they and all their citizens are to advance, argues Tshilidzi Marwala

Wits’ Adam Habib says universities should be ‘more focused on the developmental outcome’ of internationalisation

University leaders from the Middle East and North Africa will convene in Abu Dhabi to discuss how a multidisciplinary model can help build knowledge economies and advance academic research