2022-10-28Prof Jairos Kangira One of the recommendations of the recently held national education conference was that student teachers must have more teaching practice time in schools before they graduate. View more
2022-11-04Prof Jairos Kangira The reputation of universities worldwide has been judged by how they perform on the world rankings of universities. View more
2022-11-18Prof Jairos Kangira Our society is bedevilled with many problems, mainly because of our own making. We create problems for ourselves because of a lack of integrity. Here lies the biggest problem, lack of integrity. View more
2023-02-17Prof Jairos Kangira The 2023 academic year has started in earnest for those higher education institutions that follow the January to December academic year. View more
2023-02-24Prof Jairos Kangira Today I decided to touch on a hot subject in higher education that I have always questioned when I read about it or hear it being discussed in academic circles – the subject of what a research-intensive university entails. View more
2023-03-03Prof Jairos Kangira The advent of Artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022 was celebrated by students, academics and researchers in higher education institutions, especially in the developed world. View more
2023-03-10Prof Jairos Kangira When I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I started celebrating because we had spent four hard years researching and writing our theses since we were working as teaching assistants. View more
2023-03-17Prof Jairos Kangira Ensuring the quality of higher education has been the core business of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) since its inception by an Act of Parliament in 2003 (Act No 26 of 2003). View more
2023-03-24Prof Jairos Kangira When higher education institutions launch new programmes, one of the ways which they cite in assuring quality is regularly subjecting these qualifications to external examination. View more
2023-04-04Prof Jairos Kangira Professorial lectures are the backbone of academic life in any university. On Tuesday this week, Professor Catherine Nengomasha, an information science professor in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Namibia, delivered her inaugural professorial lecturer at the institution. View more
2023-04-21Prof Jairos Kangira The debate about the advantages and disadvantages of obtaining one’s qualifications from a single university has been raging on for some time now. View more
2023-06-09Prof Jairos Kangira While great strides have been made in the education sector in the last millennium in Africa, there is still a perennial problem bedeviling the education systems in most countries - the presence of untrained and unqualified teachers teaching in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. View more
2023-06-23Prof Jairos Kangira Written examinations contribute immensely to the assessment of students' knowledge and skills in their fields of study. View more
2023-07-24Prof Jairos Kangira Different systems of university rankings have released results of the 2024 world and continental rankings of universities. While there have been some deserved celebrations by top performing universities and those who support university rankings, the practice has caused some serious stir in the camp of universities and stakeholders which are against these university log standings. View more
2023-08-01Prof Jairos Kangira Last month, when the Zimbabwe High Court sentenced to death the two murderers who brutally murdered seven-year old boy, Tapiwa Makore, for rituals in 2020, there was a sigh of relief in his family and among a groundswell of sympathisers in that country and internationally that had been traumatised by the horrific act of the convicts, Tapiwa Makore senior (the boy’s uncle) and Tafadzwa Shamba. Iron View more
2023-08-18Prof Jairos Kangira Access to higher education has always been a big challenge in Africa, especially in countries that do not have loans and grants for their after-secondary-school students. View more
2023-12-08Prof Jairos Kangira As the year 2023 comes to a close soon, I have decided to give readers some feedback from one opinion piece published in this column that received the most local and internal attention this year. View more
2024-01-15Prof Jairos Kangira When university and college departments design new academic programmes, there is a strict requirement that they should hold stakeholders meetings or conferences where stakeholders’ observations and recommendations are incorporated into the proposed programmes. View more
2024-02-02Prof Jairos Kangira When the results of the 2023 NSSCO grade 11 were released last month, they revealed that a paltry one-quarter of the learners who sat for examinations last year passed to proceed to Advanced Subsidiary (AS) (grade 12) level, the nation was in mourning literally. Not surprisingly so, all were and are still at sixes and sevens, the affected learners, parents and guardians, educators, and concerned s View more
2024-02-16Prof Jairos Kangira Countrymen, countrywomen, the youth, friends - as the darkest cloud is hovering over our nation, and we are trying to find terms about the sudden death of our beloved President His Excellency Dr Hage Geingob on 4 February 2024 - and we try to find solace in the Almighty and in each other as a bereaved, united family of the Namibian House - I feel it is my duty as a long-time columnist of New Era View more
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