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KENYA

Universities want to double tuition fees from

next year
Gilbert Nganga

Kenya has revived plans to increase fees for students enrolled at public
universities from next year. Private institutions are considering similar plans, spelling doom for
students who could be paying at least double the current charges next year.
RWANDA AFRIC A-C HINA
Financial hardship keeps China increases
students from returning to scholarships to students
class from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti Wachira Kigotho
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Education networks ask AU Africa centres of excellence
to help lobby governments increase impactful research
Munyaradzi Makoni Wagdy Sawahel
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Academics call for community-based healthcare training
Eve Ruwoko

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Africa Analysis

Student activist: ‘My 10 days in Harare

remand prison’
Prince Gora

The Zimbabwean student activist Prince Gora was recently jailed for 10
days. Gora, a fourth-year chemical engineering student at the Harare Institute of Technology, is
also a University World News journalist. He is one of several student activists who have been
detained this year.
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Students face challenges on What is China’s higher
route to self-employment education agenda in Africa?
Wondwosen Tamrat Eric Fredua-Kwarteng

Today’s young graduates are confronted with China has been increasing its influence on the
the huge challenge of unemployment because higher education sector in Africa, with some
of the fast-changing world of work and the arguing that partnerships are based on mutual
limited and competitive opportunities respect, equality and honesty. African higher
available. education leaders should take care and join
forces to protect their interests and to oppose
any Chinese colonialism.
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