May 14, 2012

Transforming a Former Bastion of Apartheid

“Transforming a Former Bastion of Apartheid” is the story of Jonathan Jensen, the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State, a once-conservative Afrikaner bastion in South...
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February 15, 2012

Africa’s Top University Leaders: What they’re Thinking, How They’re Leading

“Thoughts and Experiences of African University Leaders,” a new series of interviews with vice-chancellors and others leaders with deep knowledge of higher education in Sub-Sahara Africa begins in...
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February 1, 2012

AAU Secretary-General, Vice Chancellors, Others Discuss the Transformation of African Higher Education

New volume recounts the impact of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa.  Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education, which offers an in-depth look at innovation and...
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January 28, 2012

Fellowship Program to Produce New Generation of Conflict, Security, Development Experts in Africa

$2.15 Million Carnegie Corporation-funded Program Awards 33 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships to Social Scientists African scholars in the social sciences are benefitting from an innovative...
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January 23, 2012

Grant to Provide Fundraising Training, Other Advancement Initiatives for 19 African Institutions

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has received a two-year, US$450,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide resources and training in fundraising and...
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January 10, 2012

Uganda: Girls Still Missing Out in the North

The Observer (Uganda)

Dr Jane Ayikoru wakes up every morning to treat patients at St Francis hospital, better known as Nsambya hospital. However, only a few of the patients she sees ever pay attention to what she went...
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December 8, 2011

African Doctoral Academy to Boost Ph.D. Training, Research Opportunities with $1M Grant

In a continuing effort to work with African institutions of higher education in their pursuit of excellence, Carnegie Corporation of New York will invest $1 million in a capacity-building initiative...
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December 5, 2011

Sustaining Female Scholarships is Aim of Carnegie Corporation’s $1 Million Matching Grant to Makerere University

Funds to Generate Momentum for Uganda University’s Fundraising Efforts  Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, today announced a three-year challenge grant of $1...
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November 2, 2011

New Volume on African Higher Education Partnership Tells of Innovation and Change Across Campuses and National Boundaries

Weaving Success Reveals the Impact of a Groundbreaking 10-Year Initiative A new book released today at the 3rd World Innovation Summit on Education in Doha by the Institute of International...
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August 3, 2011

South African Doctoral Student Sees Potato Fungus as Potential Cancer Fighter

For South African organic chemistry student Adushan Pillay, conducting research for his PhD is like building with Lego children's blocks. "That's what we do at a molecular level," he said....
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