Special Report
Higher Learning June 2009

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Havana free education

So Blade has met the vice-chancellors. Not that this meeting reached the tabloids. In fact, it was a subdued affair.

First female university president appointed in Egypt

Hend Hanafi was appointed by President Hosni Mubarak as head of Alexandria University.

The moral of the story

Is business education failing to develop ethical managers?

Breaking provincial boundaries to improve service delivery

Schools of public management and administration should become more involved with solutions in future.

Safety plan for foreign students

Australian vice-chancellors agree to protect Asian students from racist attacks

Dear Minister Nzimande ...

Is there going to be enough space for first-years in the next five years?

A man well-schooled in education

Pampallis taught at schools and lectured at universities in South Africa and abroad.

Deeds, not words for higher education

Governments and heads of state in the African Union have emphasised the importance of higher education in the development of modern Africa.

Positive change

University councils are meant to govern but not to manage. When the boundary between the two is breached, institutions enter into crisis.

Emotional investment

Could research in investor psychology counter unpredictable stock markets?