The government of Turkey is using the recent third Turkey–Africa summit as a springboard to attracting more African students to its universities.

The Pan African University has received over 10,000 applications for admission to its four institutes, against the slightly over 400 places available.

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity has launched a e-learning platform to help facilitate universities' use of IT to improve teaching and learning.

The Sub-Saharan Africa region has received about 40% of the more than the US$9 billion the World Bank has spent on higher education since 2015.

Student interest in environmental studies & earth sciences is relatively higher in the Global South than in the developed world, analysis has shown.

The number of African scholars joining staff ranks at higher learning institutions in the US dropped by 21% in the last three years to stand at 1,960 in 2020, down from 2,479 in 2017, recent data shows.

Business and management programs maintained their popularity throughout the first nine months of 2021 despite the Covid-19 pandemic, research has shown.

African international student advisory agents are alleging bias over sustained low rates of student permits approvals for applications to study in Canada, when compared to those for the rest of the world.