Angola Chinese Aid Brings Inauguration of 2 New Institutes Sumbe Polytechnic Institute and Waku High Agrarian Institute in the central province of Kwanza-Sul were opened in September. The new institutions will cater to more than 1,000 students each, and have been opened through cooperation between…
Regional Ugandan, Rwandan Ministers Discuss Prospects for Cross-Border Cooperation Government education officials in Uganda and Rwanda met recently to discuss initiatives that would lead to “borderless education” between the neighboring African countries. Uganda’s minister of education, Namirembe Bitamazire, called for greater interaction between the two…
Regional Number of Islamic Universities Growing on the Continent The Islamic University in Uganda is a prime example of a new kind of institution, embracing both conservative Muslim values and modern secular teaching, that has slowly been spreading its way across the African continent. There…
Regional African Universities Packed to the Rafters, Falling Down According to a feature-length report in the New York Times, Africa’s best universities, “the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals,” are collapsing. The article…
Regional Partnership for Higher Education in Africa Welcomes new Foundation The US-based Kresge Foundation has joined the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa to expand its current commitment in Africa, which is designed to build the private fundraising capacity of South African universities and hospitals….