Nearly two months after the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, many African students in Wuhan have given up on pleas to their governments to evacuate them from the locked-down city.

Worldview has launched a Study in Ghana initiative with the aim of attracting students from Africa, Europe, Asia, and America to study in the country.

The issue of Nigerian students not having enough spaces at Nigerian HEIs was discussed at a conference held in London this January. 

Almost one in five applications for Tier 4 visas to study in the UK from Ghana were denied in 2019 – a considerably higher ratio than other sub-Saharan African countries.

There are a lot of international students here. You can speak English, it's fun, the nightlife is good, the job opportunities are there

The number of African students enrolled in Russian universities has reached more than 17,000, delegates at the recent Russia-Africa Summit and Forum heard.

A pre-pilot Qualifications Passport aiming to help displaced people with missing qualification documents will be launched in Zambia in this month.

The internationalisation of HE across Africa is being hampered by myriad problems, including fear by some regulatory bodies that they could lose their authority, delegates at the ninth ANIE conference were told.