UNICAF offers you the option to study for an internationally recognised degree online, at your own time and pace, while staying at home with your family, and keeping your job and the income you earn. In other words, with UNICAF you can have it all: international studies, job, family and friends! Yet, sometimes, having it all can be tiring.

At the start of every New Year we make resolutions, which we usually forget about by the end of January: to eat sensibly, to exercise regularly, to save money to travel the world, etc. Yet, this is the best time to take a single decision, which can change your whole life: to study for an internationally recognised degree, that’s affordable and available at your own pace and time!

With this calendar year drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on the past twelve months and re-evaluate where you want to be in the future. This is a time of reflection on past achievements, disappointments, successes and failures and also a time to plan ahead for the New Year.

Our Life Online So many aspects of daily life happen online these days. Technology has revolutionised the way we meet, communicate, shop, and learn. Online learning has become very popular for people in rural areas, far away from schools and universities, but also in urban settings among professionals and family carers, who wish to study without disrupting their career or family life. In fact, many more people would like to earn a degree in order to improve their employment chances, further their career, increase their earnings, and build their future.

British universities are showing an increased interest in developing their online provision in Africa since the UK voted to leave the European Union. That is the view of Nicos Nicolaou, chief executive officer of Unicaf, which partners with Western universities to offer business and professional degrees across sub-Saharan Africa through its mobile-friendly platform. It forms part of the Edex Educational Excellence Corporation, which runs the University of Nicosia, the largest on Cyprus.

“If Africa is to maintain its lead, it is imperative that higher education becomes a more affordable option enabling the continent to create a strong, well-qualified workforce to meet the needs of its growing economy.” With plans to enrol 60,000 students by the year 2020, UNICAF has awarded more than $35m worth of scholarships and cut the cost of attending university for thousands of sub-Saharan transnational students by up to 80%, making higher education, something that has been out of reach for the vast majority of the population, a viable and very real option. Read more at: Vanguard News…

The demand of studying at a post-secondary level in many African countries is heavily outnumbering the available space. It was revealed that in Nigeria alone over one million qualified students could not secure a place at university last year and with 50% of Africans under the age of 19, demographics show that demand will continue to grow. “We are not going to discover something new that is going to revolutionise higher education” This topic was discussed at the “Making Tertiary International Education Accessible to Africa” conference last week in London, hosted by UNICAF, a distance-learning scholarship…

Sometimes, all one needs to succeed in life is a bit of extra help. UNICAF Professional Development Programmes are designed to provide this extra help, in the form of sharply focused knowledge in a specific field, delivered in an expedited amount of time and at an affordable cost.