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Sep
24
2023
By AHMED KINGIMI
Nigerian gunmen broke doors, windows in university abduction

Nigerian gunmen broke doors, windows in university abduction

NEWS
GUNMEN in Nigeria broke down doors, shattered windows and abducted 24 female students from hostels of a university in northwestern Zamfara state in the early hours, witnesses said, in the latest kidnapping to hit the state. As they marched their victims away, the armed men also took a security guard and 10 construction workers who were sleeping in a makeshift shelter on the premises of Federal University Gusau, local officials said. "The armed bandits arrived on motorcycles and started shooting sporadically, that's when I woke up. They went to the girls' hostels near the campus, breaking windows and doors and…
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Sep
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Taliban say women can study at university but classes must be segregated

Taliban say women can study at university but classes must be segregated

WORLD
WOMEN in Afghanistan will be allowed to study in universities as the country seeks to rebuild after decades of war but gender segregation and Islamic dress code will be mandatory, the Taliban's new Higher Education minister said on Sunday. The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said the new Taliban government, named last week, would "start building the country on what exists today" and did not want to turn the clock back 20 years to when the movement was last in power. He said female students would be taught by women wherever possible and classrooms would remain separated, in accordance with the…
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Aug
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Three South African vice-chancellors paint a post-COVID picture for universities

Three South African vice-chancellors paint a post-COVID picture for universities

EDUCATION
Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University, University of Pretoria Across the world, the higher education sector is changing because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Conversation Africa’s Nontobeko Mtshali asked vice-chancellors from three South African universities to share their insights about what these changes could mean for the country’s higher education landscape. What long-lasting changes to South Africa’s higher education sector has the pandemic brought? And how will these affect the way universities deliver teaching and research? Mamokgethi Phakeng, University of Cape Town:…
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