Author: K Kefale

Categories
Challenges University World News Contributions

On outdated curricula: How to stop teaching yesterday

This article first appeared on University World News There is a ritual familiarity to curriculum reform in many African universities. A committee meets. It requests a review. It calls for […]

Categories
AI Commentary

The Steering Problem: Why Universities Are Teaching the Wrong Lessons About AI

Universities are treating AI as a crisis of cheating, when it’s really a crisis of assessment. The essay was never the learning itself, just a convenient proxy for it—and that […]

Categories
Challenges University World News Contributions

As an institution, is the university capable of change?

This article first appeared on University World News In my role as a senior information analyst within an institutional planning department at a university, I occupy a curious position. I […]

Categories
Challenges University World News Contributions

Africa’s HE brain drain: The arithmetic of absence

This article first appeared on University World News There is a polite way to describe Africa’s academic brain drain. It speaks of mobility, opportunity and the global marketplace of ideas. […]

Categories
University World News Contributions

Africa’s universities are selling the future to pay for today

This article first appeared on University World News The crisis facing Africa’s universities is often told through a familiar and visceral narrative of material decay: overcrowded lecture halls, under-equipped laboratories, […]

Categories
AI Challenges Commentary

The Great Educational Awakening: How AI Forces Universities to Remember They’re Human

AI isn’t replacing education—it’s forcing education to become authentically human for the first time. By handling all the mechanical parts of learning, AI reveals a profound paradox: the very human […]

Categories
About

About This Blog

A university is a system for observing the world—from subatomic particles to distant galaxies, from ancient texts to future economies. But how does a university observe itself? Welcome to The […]