8 September 2019  Issue No: 565

There is no one model that fits all for higher education internationalisation. Local values, needs and priorities should direct the why, what and how of internationalisation, enabling African higher education institutions to break away from the feeling they are being coerced into copying a Western paradigm.

The heads of 26 public universities, along with the Commission for Gender Equality, have called on South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to act decisively in addressing violence against women amid growing national anger over the horrific murders of two university students.

A significant number of international junior researchers in Japan feel marginalised and used to give a veneer of internationalisation to their institution. Their universities need to invest more in integrating them into the Japanese system so that their presence on campus is more meaningful.

As students in Canada head back to class this week, tens of thousands in Ontario will be nervously eyeing their dwindling bank accounts, as a result of the Conservative government’s cuts to the province’s student aid programme, which go deeper than a parallel cut in tuition costs.