Tag Archives: Higher education in Africa

It is henceforth possible to become a chartered accountant of the WAEMU space thanks to the strategic partnership that has just occurred between the Academic of Felix Houphouet-Boigny national polytechnic institute (INPHB) of Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast) and the Business College (ESA) of Togo. The partnership agreement was signed last Saturday …

In the concern to offer better study and life conditions to its students, the Zambian government plans to set up a university loan system. The initiative is applied to the three public universities of the country and will be effective early 2016. Zambia as several countries of Africa financially supports …

On Wednesday, the presidents of the five Ivorian public universities handed to the Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Gnamien Konan, the educational models in the Licence-Master-Doctorat format containing training offers. Realized in three months by the presidents and the deans of the University departments, these models record for …

Patrick Awuah is a former executive of Microsoft who won and made the firm win millions but at time to time, while he lived in the United States, Patrick Awuah wondered what he could do for his country. After 20 years spent in the United States, he decided to go …

Taking the floor on Wednesday in Dakar within the framework of the Summit on higher education in Africa for the development in Africa, the former United Nations Secretary General, Koffi Annan, suggested partnership between government, universities and institutions for the revitalization of Higher education in Africa, next to other essential …

The Nigerian education system, the higher education mainly is rapidly expanding. The sector of universities is getting larger with the arrival in the next months of new (09) private universities. The Federal Executive Commission of Nigeria (FEC) has just given its agreement for the establishment of these universities in the …

After the publication of  the ranking of the Top 100 the best African universities, Webometrics, the study by the Spanish research organization, Consejo Superior d’ Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), has just put at the disposal of the public, the list of the best business schools of the continent. South Africa stands …

When announcing a few months ago his ambitious project to equip every Togolese student with a laptop computer, few of his fellow countrymen believed it. And nevertheless on Friday, 13th February 2015, Komi Avodeh, the chairman of the Organization for the Support of the Local Development (OADèB) kept his promises …

The Spanish research organization, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) published Webometrics, its last ranking regarding the universities of Africa. The production, the availability and the impact of universities on Web are considered. South Africa wins the 4 first positions in the top five of the ranking. The University of …

The Senegalese president, Macky Sall, proceeded last Wednesday to the laying of the first stone of the second university of Dakar called UNIDAK 2, situated at Diamniadio, about 30 km from Dakar, the capital town. For a global cost of 65 billion FCFA, the UNIDAK 2 will be directed to …

Well known actor in the promotion of the educational digital technology, the University Agency of the Francophony (Auf) supports the Ivorian Ministry for the higher education and the scientific research (Mesrs) in its project of the creation of the Digital University in Ivory Coast (Unci). This project aims at modernizing …

Over three candidates presented by the University of Bangui, only one was able to succeed the three stages of the 17th aggregation competition of medicine, pharmacy, odontology, stomatology, veterinary and animal production, of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES). Well, it is the Central African, Professor Eugène …

One more successful candidate and Senegal would have obtained 100 % of success rate in the 17th Competition for Aggregation of Medicine, pharmacy, odontology and Veterinary of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES). Started last 3rd November, the aforementioned competition will end on Wednesday, 12th November in …

The Gabonese Prime Minister, Daniel Ona Ondo, is very latest promoted by OIPA / CAMES. He was raised last 27th October to the rank of Commander in the International Order. The Head of government was decorated at the end works of the Council of Ministers of African and Malagasy Council …

Within some few days, universities and colleges in Burkina Faso will be equipped with 128 brand new buses. Concretely, they will be 60 public transport buses of 70 seats, 8 mini buses of 35 seats, 7 mini buses of 22 seats, whole engines, spare parts and workshops equipment. Estimated at …

The ambition of the African Network for Defense of Users, Consumers and Citizen (RADUCC) is to make the knowledge produced by African brains serve African needs: political stability, performance of education systems, improvement of the sanitary systems, economic growth, improvement of standard living welfare of populations. It is from this …

The Ivory Coast government incites its researchers to innovation. The Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Gnamien Konan proceeded on Friday, 25th July to the launching of the edition 2014 of the scientific research Prize. The ceremony was placed under the theme: « the new dynamics of researchers’ merit« . This …

The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe launched the « Initiative Abé« , a program that aims at welcoming young students on the basis of scholarships of excellence within the framework of the training of human resources on the African continent. The Japanese government intends by this measure to train young people who …

The University of Djibouti operated a high level software system in order to concretize its project of supplying a higher education to students of East African countries. Financed by the ministry of the higher education, the e-campus platform of the University of Djibouti was revealed during a ceremony in which …

Ten (10) African universities listed among the prestigious ranking 2014 of the best world universities, a ranking published by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).   By the way, South Africa possesses the best African training centers, Egypt also well placed with four classified universities.   The ranking 2014 …

The quality education in Africa is one of the important sections of the fight against poverty policy of the World Bank. A factor not the slightest that aims at stimulating the shared growth. Last Tuesday in Lomé, the institution made a commitment with the Togolese government to finance the building …

The Francophone University Agency (AUF), a world French-speaking universities association, very active in Africa and the Development Research Institute (IRD), a French public institution with scientific and technological character dealing with decisive questions for the South, are putting together in order to develop and strengthen the scientific exchanges between the …