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Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90.
Nigeria’s public university system has lost about 57 months to industrial action since 1999. This has implications for the future workforce.
Public universities in Nigeria have been bedevilled by lecturers’ strikes for years. To break the cycle, the union insists the institutions should be adequately funded.
Multilingual teaching was a challenge under emergency remote learning conditions: computer systems weren’t adapted to indigenous languages.
Creating more universities in Nigeria has serious implications for quality of graduates.
Proctoring software is a symptom of a bigger problem: universities see themselves as businesses and students as customers.
South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
Strikes have had a negative impact on Nigeria but private universities have benefited.
Universities in Kenya should be more sensitive to national policies aimed at addressing the effects of climate change.
Grouping of high schools in Ghana into categories perpetuates inequalities.
Kibaki gave Kenya’s higher education sector a free market capitalistic orientation, endearing him to the World Bank and the IMF
Kibaki’s goals were to expand access to education, and to make universities more efficient and self-sustaining.
Social scientists in Nigeria communicate their research results more among themselves than they do to policymakers and the general public.
The US has about 40 centres that focus on African studies. Africa has only three looking the other way.
Education must care for the multiple identities of students, not an elitist interest in some groups only.
Today’s journalism students are less likely to find full-time jobs as professional journalists. The craft has become ‘post-industrial’, entrepreneurial and atypical.
The present state of legal education in Ghana cannot be discussed without understanding its beginings.
Despite government efforts to provide digital resources for students kept out of school for most of 2020, access to these platforms was deeply unequal
Top-down enforcement of rules is not working; it has to be in people’s own interests to behave ethically.
The answers to Nigeria’s poor social science research output seem to lie in quantity and quality of personnel, time available for research, funding, support institutions and policy.
Learning about sustainable development and consumption should not be limited to particular disciplines like those in the sciences and technologies.
Kwasi Wiredu attempted to re-evaluate western philosophical concepts within Akan linguistic and conceptual frameworks to attain greater philosophical clarity.
Educating children in the 21st century is about teaching them to appreciate the human condition in all its diversity. Holiday reading can contribute to this.
To achieve quality and inclusive education, Tanzania should prioritise disadvantaged and marginalised children in schools.