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Societal challenges may be national or global in scale, but need local knowledge and local partnerships to solve at the local level.
E-textbooks have potential to enhance inclusivity and engagement in engineering education.
Responding to societal challenges and promoting sustainable development is an especially pressing concern for African universities.
The African university cannot be created through changing the intellectual lens and basis alone. Political action is key.
Ultimately, these studies will help us to make sense of how the pandemic is reshaping higher education.
With limited resources and inadequate infrastructure, African universities appear to be under tremendous strain. But some are beating the odds and getting it right.
Lack of access to resources is a big problem for postdoctoral researchers.
Evaluation is a critical tool for decisions on improving performance. It also assures that African universities are getting value for money from grants, donations and the like.
Gandhi was celebrated for the things he taught the world in his later years, through his writings, ideas and lifestyle. He was celebrated for seeking peace for all the peoples of the world.
Global university rankings are based on a snapshot of institutional performance. A gain by one institution is a loss by another.
University rankings must include quality teaching and indicators that address inequality as measuring tools.
Fela Kuti’s critically engaging lyrics, and his intense and methodical delivery, provide an important window to exposing students to critical understanding of the global system.
Universities could mine alumni databases to improve individual institutions’ work - and raise funds.
African countries need to start producing and developing their own medical devices. Suitably skilled biomedical engineers are needed for this sort of innovation to take root.
Distance education for teacher training has its problems. Improved support can address these issues - but some of it should come from students themselves.
South Africa must act to halt the decline and save its universities’ well deserved global reputation of excellence.
Universities play a major role in procuring the human and intellectual resources needed for fulfilling the various goals of the UN’s Agenda 2030.
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the hot spots of Christian higher education growth worldwide, a trend that can be observed across the continent.
Mentoring programs can be enormously valuable for students, both in terms of their academic performance and their professional development.
Top contributors
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Research, Foundations & Higher Education, Northern Arizona University
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Aarhus University
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Educator, Researcher, Mentor, Kenya Methodist University
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Researcher, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Stellenbosch University
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South African Research Chair in Teacher Education; Director of Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE) & Professor of International Education and Development Policy (University of Sussex, UK), Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Professor of English Language Teaching and Literacy Development, Rhodes University
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Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Distinguished Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary/Visiting Fellow, Lancaster University