Private universities are opposed to a proposal to scrap the 8-4-4- system as recommended by the task force on the re-alignment of the education sector.
As the once celebrated Makerere University in Kampala suffers from bad management and a overcrowded student body, the Ugandan government is promoting the establishment of more private universities. But at what cost?
Kenyans be proud to learn that their country is the regional hub of private universities. The fact that in the past 30 years the number of private universities in Kenya has grown from only two in 1980 to 27 currently, speaks volumes about the entrepreneurship spirit of Kenyans.
The expansion of higher education has been extraordinary. Since the Catholic University of Angola, the country's first private higher education institution, was founded in 2001, the government has recognised a further 15 private universities.
South Sudan's Minister of Higher Education has closed all privately owned learning institutions with "immediate effect" leaving thousands of students without a place to study.
The national ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology in the Republic of South Sudan has ordered with immediate effect the closure of private institutions of learning/ private universities that have been operating in the country saying they do not measure to the standards of an institution of Higher learning.
The Association of Private Universities (APU) handed over their petition addressed to the office of the President Salva Kiir in response to the recent Press Statement of the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology; threatening to close down 22 private Universities operating in South Sudan for not meeting required standards set by the Ministry.
Adwok Nyaba, the minister for higher education, decided to make news by closing down almost all private universities in the country with immediate effect from Thursday the 10th of May 2012.
Educational infrastructure in Nigeria is overstretched due to explosion of prospective students seeking admission into universities and other tertiary institutions. This has resulted in an unprecedented exodus of Nigerian students to foreign universities. In this report, our Ghana correspondent Kate Da Costa says many Nigerian students are being swindled by suspicious private universities in Ghana.
While South Sudan is the newest and one of World’s poorest nations today, it has great advantage of opting to learn from others in order to leap-frog into the twenty first century. That way, South Sudan can avoid costly mistakes of trial-and-error approaches to developmental policy design, including policies regulating private higher education institutions (PHEIs).
South Sudan can avoid the costly mistakes of trial-and-error approaches to developmental policy design, including policies regulating private higher education institutions.
Private education giant Educor is set to become the first South African institution to set up branch campuses outside the country as it expands its operations into four new African countries under its well-known Intec and Damelin brands.
The US based Carnegie Mellon University officially launched its Rwandan campus on Friday August 24 where they will be offering a Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT).
The 10th Annual Conference on Role of Private Universities in Higher Education in Africa kicked off on 8th August 2012, in view to assess the impact of private higher education provision on the revitalization of higher education in Africa and to bring some helpful developments on the role of private universities in higher education in Africa.
Private universities play a critical role in advancing the higher education goals of Africa, as the world’s least developed continent grapples with a burgeoning youth population seeking quality, globally competitive skills, a pan-African forum held in Ethiopia agreed.