Development Cooperation
Nazret.com - Ethiopia: The Dragon Eating the Eagle's Lunch in Africa?
In June 2011, during her visit to Zambia U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton pulled the alarm bell on a creeping “new colonialism” in Africa. While dismissing “China’s Model” of authoritarian state capitalism as a governance model for Africa, she took a swipe at China for its unprincipled opportunism in Africa.
Ghana Business News - Dutch government donates two buses to University of Development Studies
Dutch government on Tuesday donated two buses to the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) of the University for Development Studies to ensure the success of a project it is implementing in the school.
IP-Watch - African Ministers Focus On IP Role In Innovation For Development; Less On Flexibilities | Intellectual Property Watch
The role of innovation as a driving force of social, economic, and environmental development is one of the central themes in post-2015 global development agenda discussions. In a ministerial-level meeting with guidance from the World Intellectual Property Organization last week, African policymakers outlined what they would need to foster innovation at home.
allAfrica.com - Kenya in Dire Need of Lecturers to Stop Higher Education Decline
The government must move with speed to curb the ongoing public university staff crisis if quality teaching at our learning institutions is to be sustained.
Jamaica Gleaner - C@ribnet seen as game-changer in education access - New telecoms network links schools across the region
Ken Sylvester, CEO of the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKNET), a new high-capacity fibre optics research and education network, will now connect colleges and universities in 21 regional countries.The programme will operate under the brand name, C@ribnet.
University World News - Spending boost of 30% to finance new universities
Kenya has increased funding for higher education by 30% for the financial year beginning in July, as it seeks to bankroll 15 new public universities. But institutions say even this boost is way below financial needs – and election promises made by Kenya’s new president could disrupt the sector’s plans.
University World News - Investigation of public universities uncovers problems
For the first time in decades, Nigeria’s National Universities Commission set up a committee to visit all federal and state universities and undertake a forensic audit. It found widespread problems including poor staffing, underfunding and weak infrastructure.
IICD - Computers Boost Education if Applied in a Socially Innovative Way
The use of computers, mobile phones, internet, presentation programs and other Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can greatly boost education in Africa and Latin America when applied in a socially innovative way. This is one of the main conclusions that can be drawn from IICD's publication 'ICT for Education: five years of learning.'
CIDA - Government helps Canadian youth gain international development experience
Young Canadians will gain international experience in developing countries, with support from the Harper Government.
International Migration - International Student Mobility and Tertiary Education Capacity in Africa
In Africa, 5.8 per cent of enrolled tertiary students go outside their homelands for tertiary study. No other world region has this high a share of outbound student mobility. In this study, I examined why African countries have larger student outflows than other regions and, in particular, I considered the importance of tertiary education capacity in the region for student mobility.
University World News - Indigenous knowledge must be harvested for development
There is a rich body of indigenous knowledge embodied in Africa’s cultural and ecological diversities, and African people have drawn on this knowledge for hundreds of years to solve specific developmental and environmental problems.
University World News - Two international centres boost agriculture research
Two international centres aimed at boosting research and education in fields of agriculture, and involving universities from America and France, are to be set up in West Africa. One in Ghana will focus on agribusiness and the other in Senegal on adapting agriculture to climate change.
Eurasia Review - China In Africa: ‘Imperial Power’ Or ‘Altruist’?
Contrary to the claims of critics, China’s partnership with Africa is based on sincere friendship, equality and mutual respect for the sovereignty through non-interference in domestic affairs and the offer of loans and grants
Decan Herald - African students often victims of racism, stereotyping
Twenty-three-year-old Richie Ronsard left his home in the Congo two years ago to fulfil his childhood dream of obtaining a degree from an established instutute in the India. The reality check was not long in comming.
CIDA - Canada to deepen and broaden partnership with private sector for development
The Harper Government will broaden and deepen its engagement with the private sector in order to achieve sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty in developing countries
Guardian Professional - Beyond access: Turning information into knowledge and power
Access to information as part of development strategy is becoming more important, but is information alone enough? Join the debate, Thursday 14 March at 1pm GMT
IOL Business - Japan is committed to aiding African development
Africa is the continent of the future. It has an abundance of natural resources. It is the only region with a population that is expected to grow into the next century.
University World News - New scholarship programme for developing nations
Denmark has launched a scholarship programme for developing countries, initially targeting students from Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda. It is part of a comprehensive internationalisation of higher education strategy being developed by the government.
University World News - Step up knowledge creation in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Countries in developing regions must step up higher education to a level where their people are creators rather than merely consumers of knowledge, a major conference on international higher education heard this week.
EurActiv - UNESCO chief: Millions can benefit from partnerships with private sector
UNESCO increasingly counts on partnerships with the private sector to help fund projects, Director General Irina Bokova tells EurActiv. She identified Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Ericsson for being “very open to innovative methods of cooperation”.
University World News - Presidential decree creates first Chinese university
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has issued a decree to establish the Egyptian Chinese University in the capital Cairo – the first Chinese university to be set up in the Middle East and North Africa region.
SciDev.Net - Focus on Gender: Small-scale tech can transform women's lives
Small-scale technology can help women to raise their status and increase their income and education, says Henrietta Miers.
SciDev.Net - Knowledge adaptation key to local innovation, finds review
The adaptation of scientific findings to local needs is key to improving the economic impact of research funding in developing countries, according to an independent evaluation of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency's (SIDA) innovation programmes.
Chronicle of African HE - Partnership and collaboration with African institutions: a perspective from the North
In this second rendering of the Chronicle of African Higher Education, Ad Boeren, a senior policy officer at NUFFIC, Netherlands, analyzes the dynamics of partnership and collaboration with African institutions from a Northern perspective. He argues that “For financial reasons, many Northern institutions look for collaborations that offer certain and quick returns.
OECD - Aid statistics - Donor Aid at a Glance
These charts (2010-2011) show for each of the following DAC Members and Total DAC : •Net ODA •Breakdown of bilateral ODA by income group and by region •Top ten recipients of bilateral ODA, and •Bilateral ODA by sector.
OECD - Aid statistics - Recipient Aid at a Glance
These charts show for each of the following countries and territories, and for the years 2009-2011: Net ODA receipts Top ten donors of gross ODA Population and GNI per capita, and Bilateral ODA by sector.
IICD - Mobile Learning Increasingly Important for Development
Mobile phones and mobile learning are increasingly important for development in Africa and Latin America. The publication Mobile on the Move - Opportunities in mobile learning from IICD’s perspective shows many examples of how mobile learning can help people to better their own future.
University World News - Roles and functions of higher education councils
Since the mid-1980s there has been a growing trend in developed countries to establish semi-autonomous government agencies. Their creation has usually been linked to new public management and concomitant demands on governments for greater efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and accountability.
The Broker - The MDGs disregard transformative power as the core of development
The MDGs have served the purpose of setting a development agenda for the period 2000-2015. That agenda was, however, far from accurate. As many contributors to this website have advocated, the lack of attention to inequality bears witness to this.
Atlanta Blackstar - African Students Abroad Returning Home For Fast Career Growth
In order to grow their economies, nations across Africa have long been trying to figure out how to stop the brain drain—the best and the brightest African students going to school in the U.S. and the U.K. and not bringing their talents back to Africa.