After a hitman tried to assassinate the vice-chancellor of Fort Hare University but ended up gunning down the academic’s bodyguard, in January 2023, South Africa’s police abducted and tortured a union ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of Johannesburg has been ranked as sub-Saharan Africa’s best university, beating two historic rivals — the ...

MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa—The University of Johannesburg might have selected Joburg, rather than the bush, for the most recent Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research focused ...

The ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has released its 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), listing the world’s top 1,000 universities, including South Africa’s highest-ranked institutions.

Africa’s best-performing universities, particularly in South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco, continue to make incremental gains. South Africa leads the continent, boasting seven of the top eleven African ...

The Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday released the 2025 World universities rankings across nearly 2,000 institutions from 108 countries and territories. In Africa, seven South African ...

Morocco is home to five universities ranked in the top 100 in Africa. These institutions include Mohammed V University, holding the 33rd spot; Cadi Ayyad University, positioned at 40th; Hassan II ...

South Africa’s university governance model was built for a noble and urgent purpose. In the years after 1994, the task was to democratise institutions that had been shaped by apartheid hierarchy, ...

Current approaches to assessing researchers’ outputs fall short. Marco VDM/Getty Images There are many ways university researchers can share their work. Some of these methods are well-established in ...