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Sida urged to “reconsider” ending decades-long support scheme for Uganda’s flagship university

Sansa looks to service fees and industry partnerships to fill funding gaps

With 60 per cent of samples sequenced, project hopes to hit target later this year

This week: Four universities dominate Assaf membership, Karolinska and Makerere launch centre and more
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Refreshed approach highlights women and girls, climate change and global health as key issues

Tributes to former Council on Higher Education chief Narend Baijnath

The aim of SA-Tied is to move from diagnosis to solutions for economic challenges

Project will develop guidelines for newborn and child health in Nigeria, Malawi, and South Africa

This week: INORMS registration, drug discovery partnership, US accolades and more

Mary-Jane Bopape is one of Africa’s few Black women meteorologists

Lis Lange quits as head of teaching and learning with immediate effect

Equality-promoting funding policies “still in their infancy”, review finds

Ethiopian researchers share how the war in Tigray has upended their lives and careers

Africa-led, Africa-centred programme to influence thinking and action on the continent

Women make up less than one-third of intake

Sibusiso Moyo to replace Eugene Cloete in influential role at top institution

Minister leads mission to the US seeking insights to inform 10-year science plan

Minister, funder mourn loss of South African science champion Ndoni Mcunu

Call for action after disaster kills more than 400 in KwaZulu-Natal

Floating microbiology lab will study Africa’s west coast under local direction

Boost for medical institute but National Research Fund is stuck in a rut

True infections could be almost 100 times more than reported

Law professor Barney Pityana blasts attitudes toward academia

Almost 100 scholarships for exchanges at honours, masters and PhD level

Bequest from US-based entrepreneur and alumni David Fine will fund new chair

Chair of ANC's foreign policy committee says US and European actions “polarise and divide”

But corruption and red tape must be tackled to fulfil national potential, claims report

Partnerships with Belgian region will focus on sustainable development and data science

Low PhD output, donor dependency and unstable funding cloud country’s research performance

Continent urged to diversify supply chains and invest in local production

Country’s C4IR wants to be a catalyst for world-leading ethical tech development

Successor sought for Rob Adam who has led SARAO since 2016

Pilot project is intended to help African universities commercialise their intellectual property

Audit reveals foreign office chopped extra £90 million from business department’s ODA budget in 2021

Under-representation of women from low-income countries “a call to the barricades”, report says

Email sent to academy’s members criticised, but body says it was not “gagged”

Technicians and scientists face potential liability, say legal scholars