It is crucial that institutions around Africa do not shy away from robust and critical debate while continental university rankings take shape.
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Doctoral studies are valued as an engine for development in Africa. If doctoral graduates are to meet this challenge, the very structure of the doctoral programme must change.
More and more African universities are realigning themselves to tackle their countries’ societal and economic problems.
Data from the National Benchmark Test can be used by universities to support students who lag behind in academic literacy.
For decades, higher education in developing countries has not been a priority for international aid donors. That is now changing.
There is more to drawing diaspora academics back to their home countries in Africa than striking up individual relationships. Infrastructure must be fixed and institutional management must improve.
Evidence from an 18-month-old research project suggests that making elements of the Humanities curriculum more Afro-centric boosts student engagement.
African universities need to boost local languages onto the same exalted platform as English before they can be considered truly transformed.
When literary studies degrees focus almost entirely on the work of white, male writers, we do our students and the academy a great disservice.
The beginning of the academic year in South Africa is the most stressful time for parents of children who come from poor, rural and working class backgrounds. This when they have to confront the difficult…
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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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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