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Africa: Quantity Versus Quality in Higher Education
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
A close look at the 2012 - 13 list of the world's 400 leading universities compiled by Britain's Times Higher Educationmagazine reveals the enormous disparities not only between… Read more »
African Education in the Spotlight
African governments have increased primary school enrolment from 59 percent in 1999 to 77 Percent in 2010 but how many young people complete their schooling with the requisite skills, asks Africa in Fact.
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Ethiopia: Gambling On Education
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
Graduation day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, and the traffic has come to a standstill on Tele Bole, one of the city's main arterial roads. Read more »
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Uganda: The Malaise of Makerere - Underfunding, Overcrowding
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
Bob Atwine, 21, says he is pleased he went to a private university instead of to Makerere University, Uganda's renowned, government-owned institution of higher education. Read more »
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Nigeria: Nation's Dying Public Universities
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
At a protest last July at the University of Ibadan in south-western Nigeria, a student brandished a placard that complained, “Education is dead in Nigeria.” Read more »
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Africa: African Growth Lures Skills Back From the West
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
Femi Badeji left his native Nigeria nearly 20 years ago and moved to the United States. He earned an MBA at Wharton, one of the US's top business schools, and then worked as an… Read more »
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Madagascar: Education Hard Hit by Funding Cuts
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
Madagascar once boasted one of the finest school systems in French-speaking Africa. Read more »
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South Africa: Education - Where Did It Go Wrong?
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
“It's bad. It just is,” says Malehlohonolo Khauoe about the education she received at a rural school outside Matatiele in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, the… Read more »
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Kenya: Children Bear the Brunt of Labour Disputes in Education
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
Broken government promises and corruption have led to a series of teacher strikes in Kenya. Children are routinely denied an education and are the ultimate victims. Read more »
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South Africa: Khayelitsha - an Unfolding Success Story
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2013
In the early 1950s, South Africa's minister of native affairs, Hendrik Verwoerd, said: “What is the use of teaching the Bantu [black] child mathematics when it cannot use it… Read more »
