International Government will start phasing in free higher education in 2018, Cyril Ramaphosa says | President Cyril Ramaphosa has committed to phasing in fully subsidised free higher education and training for poor and working-class students starting in 2018. Lessons from Asia on road to world-class universities | The debate aroundContinue Reading
International Higher education and the new doctrine of vocation | [A] detailed report published this month by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)…investigates “the relationship between the extent to which a subject is vocational and the employment outcomes of its graduates”. HEFCE, which draws on data released lastContinue Reading
International The Data-Enabled Executive: Using Analytics for Student Success and Sustainability [ACE paper, Dec. 2017] | Like it or not, colleges and universities are facing considerable threats to their continued existence, and the pressure to use data will only grow from this point on. Leaders will need to be wellContinue Reading
International Trump’s bigotry – The role of African intellectuals | The role of African academics and intellectuals on the continent and in the diaspora in strategically countering the prejudice and misinformation about Africa on the part of leaders such as United States President Donald Trump cannot be overemphasised. Higher educationContinue Reading
International Progress in higher education hampered by poor schools | There is no dearth of demand for higher education in India. In fact, the share of the population enrolling on higher education courses in the country is higher than that in other countries with comparable levels of development. But theContinue Reading
