Regional The Future of Cross-Border Higher Education in Africa While Africa has not experienced the boom of foreign education providers that has been seen in other parts of the world, there are at least eight branch campuses on the African continent operated by universities from…
Ethiopia Addis Ababa University to Spearhead Faculty Training In a bid to address low tertiary enrollment rates (less than 2 percent), the Ethiopian government is developing plans to increase student numbers and, perhaps more importantly, qualified academic staff. Enrollment capacity is being increased by creating…
Kenya Government Task Force Recommends New Education Structure A task force asked to realign Kenya’s education system with the (new) Constitution has proposed sweeping changes to the 8-4-4 system of education. The changes include the introduction of a 6-6-3 system of education: six years of…
Regional UNESCO: Raise Tuition Fees, Expand Private Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa New enrollments at sub-Saharan institutions of higher education in Africa grew by 82 percent in the eight years to 2008, to more than 4.5 million students. But with demand soaring at all levels of…
Regional Lessons Learned From U.S. Foundations’ Cooperative Efforts in Africa Higher Education Last year, after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic efforts to develop African higher education, the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa disbanded, leaving behind a long list of…