UWN News

Syndicate content
The global window on higher education
Updated: 1 week 6 days ago

SOUTH AFRICA: Plan for 1.5 million students by 2030

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:55
South Africa's government plans to raise university enrolments from ...

HAITI: US universities help rebuild higher education

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:54
Two years after suffering an earthquake that wreaked massive damage on universities, Haiti's higher education sector has benefited from international efforts that have revamped buildings and helped...

TANZANIA: More students expelled from top university

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:51
Drama at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's oldest and most prestigious higher education institution, has continued with the expulsion of 13 more students last Tuesday and the suspension o...

MALAWI: Lecturers resume work, but tensions persist

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:49
Lecturers in Malawi have resolved to return to work to end nearly a ...

ZIMBABWE: Diamond sales to fund student grants

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:48
The Zimbabwean government has relaunched student grants, to be finan...

KENYA: International agencies to help loans board

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:46
Kenya is planning to approach international financing agencies as it...

EGYPT: University unveils desert development project

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:40
With the Nile Delta bursting at the seams with the vast majority of Egypt's 81 million people, scientists at the provincial University of Mansoura believe it is high time to reclaim large stretches...

ZIMBABWE: Gender equity in student enrolment improves

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:38
Zimbabwe's higher education affirmative action policy has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of female students at institutions of higher learning. The policy allows female applicants to te...

NORTH AFRICA: Democracy vs academic freedom?

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:36
On 5 January Tunisian Salafists, ultra-conservative Muslims, ended a ...

MAURITANIA: University reforms to bridge divides

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:34
A government commission has been created in Mauritania with the aim ...

MOROCCO: Jobless graduates stage sit-in at ministry

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:32
About 200 unemployed graduates took over the Ministry of Education earlier this month, demanding that the government give them written guarantees of work in the public service, reported ...

ALGERIA: Teaching hospitals strike over drugs shortage

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:30
Researchers and lecturers at teaching hospitals in Algeria completed their first three-day strike last week, with a second stoppage due to start on Sunday following a general meeting at the Mustaph...

BURKINA FASO: Students protest at resits scheduling

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:28
Students from the human sciences research unit of the University of ...

ANGOLA: Plans to promote and expand higher education

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 09:24
The Angolan government is to create 6,000 new bursaries in 2012 as part of its policy to promote education, introduced in 2008, Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology Marie Cândida T...

US: New York campus bid to be innovation capital

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 08:28
Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's win...

GLOBAL: Dynamic time for international partnerships

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 08:23
This is a dynamic moment for international academic partnerships, a ...

EUROPE: US model threatens European traditions

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 08:22
Regions are becoming ever-more important in the ongoing internationalisation and globalisation of higher education and research. In this process one region, the United States, has for a long time s...

NETHERLANDS: Germany should pay for student influx

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 08:17
The Dutch junior education minister has demanded compensation from ...

GERMANY: University admissions chaos looms

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 08:05
Students in Germany applying for admission-restricted subjects will face chaotic enrolment conditions until at least mid-2013 due to technical problems dogging the introduction of new online nation...

GLOBAL: Universities need to be vocal about inclusion

Sun, 15/01/2012 - 07:56
Across the United States, there are thousands of high school seniors preparing for their first year of college. Some of those students have disabilities and learning disorders. But many major unive...