Education observatory

The hosting of a UK university campus in Casablanca is an opportunity to enhance the spread of English in Morocco, according to higher education experts. Read more>

In the upcoming academic year, Morocco is switching from the Licence, Master, Doctorat (LMD) system, mainly used in Francophone countries, to the bachelor degree system used in the Anglophone world, signaling the country’s intention to broaden its horizons beyond Western Europe, particularly France, and prepare its young people for a world where …

The open, distance and e-learning (ODeL) arm of the Pan African University (PAU), which will offer free, accredited online courses to African students, was officially launched in December in Yaoundé, Cameroon, enabling millions of Africans of all ages to benefit from lifelong learning opportunities. Read more>

According to the research, only 10 per cent of academic publications under scientific disciplines are published in the Arabic language across the Arab world. This output is not proportional to the number of graduate researchers specialising in these disciplines. Read more>

A platform that connects MENA students with universities around the world, has been launched by education experts from the UK and Jordan. Read more>

The Arab region has again come out near the bottom in an international comparison of the abilities of 15-year-olds in reading, math and science. Read more> 

“African universities have not caught up on tackling fake news, either as research, teaching or even as a malady that also affects the university system,” said Idayat Hassan, director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a Nigeria-based policy advocacy and research organisation. Read more>

Urgent and considerable investment is needed if African agricultural and life sciences universities are to reach their potential, according to Professor Adipala Ekwamu, executive secretary of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM). Read more> 

A majority – 65% – of African education and training professionals believe that African countries are not doing enough to ensure universal access to quality higher education for all Africans by 2030 but are optimistic about the benefits of technology in education, according to a survey contained in the latest …

Ahead of next week’s African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) conference* – Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a role for research universities –University World News canvassed the views of a selection of experts in higher education on the state of readiness of Africa’s research universities for the next ‘revolution’. …